Social Expenditure - Reference series
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The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. It covers 36 OECD countries for the period 1980-2015/16 and estimates for aggregates for 2017-18. A Social Expenditure Update - 8-page report- can be found under www.oecd.org/social/expenditure.htm The main social policy areas are as follows: Old age, Survivors, Incapacity-related benefits, Health, Family, Active labor market programmes, Unemployment, Housing, and Other social policy areas. This version also includes estimates of net total social spending for 2015 for 35 OECD countries. SOCX aggregated data as well as sources and methodology for the estimations 2017-2018 are described in The OECD SOCX Manual – 2019 edition- A guide to the OECD Social Expenditure Database

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social.contact@oecd.org

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Source: OECD, National Accounts database.

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Social protection data transfer to OECD.Stat is on-going. More statistics related to social protection can be accessed via the "social policy statistics portal".

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See www.oecd.org/social/expenditure.htm

Social Expenditure - Reference seriesAbstract

The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. It covers 36 OECD countries for the period 1980-2015/16 and estimates for aggregates for 2017-18. A Social Expenditure Update - 8-page report- can be found under www.oecd.org/social/expenditure.htm The main social policy areas are as follows: Old age, Survivors, Incapacity-related benefits, Health, Family, Active labor market programmes, Unemployment, Housing, and Other social policy areas. This version also includes estimates of net total social spending for 2015 for 35 OECD countries. SOCX aggregated data as well as sources and methodology for the estimations 2017-2018 are described in The OECD SOCX Manual – 2019 edition- A guide to the OECD Social Expenditure Database

The OECD SOCX Manual – 2019 edition- A guide to the OECD Social Expenditure Databasehttp://www.oecd.org/social/soc/SOCX_Manuel_2019.pdfContact person/organisation

social.contact@oecd.org

Data source(s) used

Source: OECD, National Accounts database.

Recommended uses and limitations

See www.oecd.org/social/expenditure.htm

Other comments

Social protection data transfer to OECD.Stat is on-going. More statistics related to social protection can be accessed via the "social policy statistics portal".