Consequences of Social-Welfare Reliance for family reunification for citizens

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Quick info
Data type Numeric
Scale Metric
Value labels Not applicable
Technical name isr_famicit_socben_conseq_s
Category Immigrant social rights
Label q8a_welfare
Related indicators

It is measured whether citizen sponsors were required to demonstrate that they did not rely on social welfare for family reunification

Coding rules

Social welfare reliance and family reunification for citizens: This measures whether a citizen was allowed to bring family members only if they were not relying on social welfare.

Question: In the years [YYYY-YYYY], were sponsors who were citizens required not to rely on social welfare?

Coding Rules:

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Value Specification
0 Status of family reunification migrant does not exist
0.5 Yes
1 No

]]

Missing values

Depending on the cause of the absence of a value, several types of missing values can be differentiated. These are as follows:

  • -991 Don’t know
  • -992 Former communist countries
  • -993 Benefit did not exist (including for citizens)
  • -994 Legal category of migrants did not exist
  • -995 Neither benefit nor legal category of migrants existed
  • -996 Missing value for Myanmar 1980-2010
  • -997 Index is missing because all underlying variables are also missing
  • -998 Missing for other reasons
  • -999 Country not in sample in 1980-1999

See the technical report for further information on data collection, coding, filters, the questionnaire, and related procedures: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/bitstream/elib/8858/3/WeSIS_Technical_Papers_No%2018%20%281%29.pdf

Bibliographic info

Citation: Henninger, Jakob; Junge, Mara; Römer, Friederike; Bartsch, Samera, 2025: The Immigrant Social Rights Data Set (ImmigSR). Technical Report (2., aktualisierte Ausgabe, Stand: 04.03.2025), SFB 1342 Technical Paper Series/18/2025, Bremen: CRC 1342, doi:10.26092/elib/373.

Related publications: Römer, F., Henninger, J., & Harris, E. (2024). Social protection for mobile populations? A global perspective on immigrant social rights. Social Policy & Administration, 58(1), 155–174. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12955

Misc

Project manager(s): Dr. Friederike Römer

Data release: 01.06.2025

Revisions:

Sources

Original CRC Data