De facto coverage of children by the child benefit for citizens/residents

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Quick info
Data type Numeric
Scale Metric
Value labels Not applicable
Technical name fam_cben_citres_cov_eff_child
Category Family and gender policies
Label Number of child recipients of cash transfer
Related indicators NA (no information available)

The variable indicates the number of individual children effectively covered by the child benefit for citizens/residents. It reports the actual number of children that received a transfer within the respective year. The dataset aims to provide comparable data on the effective coverage across countries with different types of child benefits. Therefore, for transfers which are provided at the household-level, this variable estimates the equivalent number of children who are effectively covered by transfers provided at the household level. This is based on demographic data compiled by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).


Coding rules

The variable reports the actual number of individual children who received a transfer in the respective year, as published by administrative databases, relevant policy/program documentation or literature. When information on the actual number of recipients was not available, the reported value may provide an approximation of the number of recipients and households covered.

Recipient numbers may vary month-by-month. The dataset reports the value in December, and when this is not available or applicable a value available within that same year is reported.

For transfers which are provided at the household-level, the equivalent number of child recipients is calculated by multiplying the number of household recipients of child benefits provided at the household-level (fam_cben_citres_cov_eff_hh) with the average number of children (aged below 15 years) across households with at least one member aged below 15 years in the respective country.


Missing information is coded as follows:

  • -999 = No information available: Data was unavailable or could not be found.
  • -888 = Policy does not exist: Data was not collected due to knowledge that the policy either does not exist or has been discontinued.
  • -777 = Not applicable: Data was not collected because it was not relevant for this specific country or child benefit system.


Bibliographic info

Citation: Tran, Anh, Simone Tonelli, Martin Gurín, Tobias Böger, Keonhi Son, Aysegül Kayaoglu and Sonja Drobnič. 2025. Codebook of the Global Dataset of Child Benefits (GDCB), SFB 1342, Technical Paper Series/19/2025, Bremen: CRC 1342, doi: 10.26092/elib/4077.


Related publications: Tonelli, Simone, Tobias Böger, Keonhi Son, Petra Buhr, Sonja Drobnič, and Johannes Huinink. 2021. Codebook of Historical Dataset of Child Benefit (HDCB). Bremen: SFB 1342. https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/5939.



Misc

Project manager(s): Anh Tran, Simone Tonelli, Martin Gurín, Tobias Böger, Keonhi Son, Aysegül Kayaoglu and Sonja Drobnič (A06)


Data release: Version 0.003: Third release


Revisions: This codebook is an updated version of the publication: Tonelli, Simone, Tobias Böger, Keonhi Son, Petra Buhr, Sonja Drobnič, and Johannes Huinink. 2021. Codebook of Historical Dataset of Child Benefit (HDCB). Bremen: SFB 1342. https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/5939.

Sources

Below is a list of common sources used to gather information on multiple countries. For country-specific sources and calculations, please refer to the Codebook of the Global Dataset of Child Benefits (Tran et al. 2025).

  • Social Security Administration. Various years. Social Security Programs Throughout the World. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 1949-1999 reports: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003924614 2001-2019 reports: https:// www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw
  • United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Non-Contributory Social Protection Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean Database. Santiago de Chile: UN ECLAC – Social Development Division. https://dds.cepal.org/bpsnc/home.
  • UNU-WIDER. 2018. Social Assistance, Politics, and Institutions (SAPI) database [online]. Helsinki: United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). /project/sapi-social-assistance-politics-and-institutions-database.
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