Distinct long-term care system introduction: Dominant actor financing
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| Data type | String |
| Scale | String |
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| Technical name | health_LTC_financing_intro_actor_typeB |
| Category | Health and long-term care |
| Label | Distinct long-term care system introduction: Dominant actor financing |
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The indicator specifies the actor type which was dominantly financing the long-term care system at introduction. Five actor types are distinguished: state, societal actors, private for-profit actors, private individual actors and global actors. For a detailed discussion of all actor types see Fischer et al. 2021.
Coding rules
In the financing dimension, actor types are operationalized by equating them with financing sources. For types of domestic long-term care financing source can be distinguished: Tax revenues (state), social insurance contributions (societal actors), private insurance premiums (private for-profit actors), and household out-of-pocket expenditure (private individual actors). Global actors are equated with external/rest of the world financing. A detailed discussion of the operationalization can be found in Rothgang et al. (2021, pp. 10-11). Multiple data sources were used for identifying dominant actors: laws and regulations, academic publications and reports and grey literature, statistics, national online newspaper articles and (official) websites as well as primary data collected through the project’s Expert Survey on Long-Term Care in 2020/21. For more information on the sources used per country see Appendix in Rothgang et al. (2021).
Bibliographic info
Citation: Rothgang, Heinz, Johanna Fischer, Meika Sternkopf, and Lorraine Frisina Doetter. 2021. The classification of distinct long-term care systems worldwide: the empirical application of an actor-centered multi-dimensional typology. Vol. 12 of SOCIUM SFB 1342 WorkingPapers. Bremen: SOCIUM, SFB 1342 Retrieved from https://socialpolicydynamics.de/f/2483ea052c.pdf. Retrieved from https://socialpolicydynamics.de/f/2483ea052c.pdf
- Fischer, Johanna, Lorraine Doetter, and Heinz Rothgang. 2021. “Comparing long‐term care systems: A multi‐dimensional, actor‐centred typology.” Social Policy & Administration: 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12742
Misc
Project manager(s): A04 project, main responsible person Johanna Fischer
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Sources
- For a detailed overview of all sources per country used please see: Rothgang, Heinz, Johanna Fischer, Meika Sternkopf, and Lorraine Frisina Doetter. 2021. The classification of distinct long-term care systems worldwide: the empirical application of an actor-centered multi-dimensional typology. Vol. 12 of SOCIUM SFB 1342 WorkingPapers. Bremen: SOCIUM, SFB 1342 Retrieved from https://socialpolicydynamics.de/f/2483ea052c.pdf
