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The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database
Author(s) -
Nelson Kenneth,
Fredriksson Daniel,
Korpi Tomas,
Korpi Walter,
Palme Joakim,
Sjöberg Ola
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/ijsw.12418
Subject(s) - social policy , legislation , social welfare , political science , social rights , database , public economics , economics , computer science , law , human rights
The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database provides the foundations for new comparative and longitudinal research on the causes behind, and the consequences of, welfare states and social citizenship rights. The SPIN database is oriented towards analyses of institutions as manifested in social policy legislation. To date, SPIN covers 40 countries, of which several have data on core social policy programmes from 1930. There are currently six data modules in SPIN, covering different social policy areas. The following research note describes the theoretical and conceptual basis of the SPIN project, as well as the data it contains.