Existence long-term care system (type A)
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Binary |
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| Technical name | health_LTC_system_existence_rud_LTCsystem |
| Category | Health and long-term care |
| Label | Existence long-term care system (type A) |
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The indicator specifies the existance of a long-term care system (type A) in a country in a given year from 1940-2020. Years were no system has (yet) been introduced are coded ‘0’, the year of introduction plus all subsequent years ‘1’. A long-term care system is introduced when (i) country-wide legislation is adopted which (ii) establishes entitlements to LTC benefits, and (iii) one/several specific institution(s) are determined responsible for manageing the LTC system (integration) (cf. De Carvalho & Fischer 2020; Fischer et al. 2021).
Coding rules
Years were no system has (yet) been introduced are coded ‘0’, the year of introduction plus all subsequent years ‘1’. The first year of system existance corresponds to the year of formal adoption of the law estabilishing the long-term care system. Multiple data sources were used for identifying the year/date of system introduction: laws and regulations, academic publications and reports and grey literature, 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 Fischer & Sternkopf (2021).
Bibliographic info
Citation: Fischer, Johanna, and Maika Sternkopf. (forthcoming). The Historical Long-Term Care Systems Dataset (HLTCS): Data Collection and Codebook. CRC 1342 Technical Paper Series.
- Fischer, Johanna, Alexander Polte, and Meika Sternkopf. 2021. “The introduction of long-term care systems: The nascent diffusion of an emergent field of social policy.” In Global Dynamics of Social Policy. Networks and geographies of global social policy diffusion: Culture, economy and colonial legacies, eds. Michael Windzio, Ivo Mossig, Fabian Besche-Truthe and Helen Seitzer. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Carvalho, Gabriela de, and Johanna Fischer. 2020. Healthcare and Long-Term Care Systems and Reforms - Concepts and Operationalisations for Global and Historical Comparative Research. Vol. 3 of SFB 1342 Technical Paper Series.
Misc
Project manager(s): A04 project, main responsible person Johanna Fischer
- Version 0.001: Initial release
Revisions: No revisions yet
Sources
- For a detailed overview of all sources per country used please see: Fischer, Johanna, and Maika Sternkopf (forthcoming). The Historical Long-Term Care Systems Dataset (HLTCS): Data Collection and Codebook. CRC 1342 Technical Paper Series.
