Sar sys a inc floor

Quick info
Data type	numeric
Scale	metric
Value labels	N/A
Technical name	sar_sys_a_inc_floor
Category	Family and gender policies
Label	Inclusiveness of Social Assistance Entitlements of Poor People (FLOOR)
Related indicators	sar_sys_wa_inc_floor sar_sys_oa _inc_floor sar_sys_d_inc_floor sar_sys_oth_inc_floor sar_sys_c_inc_floor

Inclusion of poor people (defined in economic terms, not categorically constructed) in the national social cash transfer arrangement

Coding rules

This indicator measures the inclusion of poor people in the national social cash transfer arrangement. It’s the constituent element of the inclusiveness profile of a national social cash transfer arrangement.

Categories:

1. children (from age 0 to including 17; including children with disabilities);
2. persons of working age (without disabilities) (18-59);
3. older persons (from age 60 to including 80);
4. adults with disabilities (from age 18 to including 80);
5. small groups (residual category);
6. poor people (defined in economic terms, not categorically constructed).

(For more information about the categories see section 4.3 in Weible 2022)

The inclusion index indicates to what extent a target category is covered (“included”) by entitlements to social cash transfers. Three measures to analyse the scope of entitlements – social range of a target group, age range of a target group, geographical range of programmes – feed into the inclusion index. Depending on the data values, each of the three measures is assigned a certain score between (including) 0 and 1, which serve as sub-scores of the (total) inclusion score. The sub-scores are empirically based estimates, which are explained in Weible (2022; section 4.4.5). The inclusion index is estimated separately per target category. To calculate the inclusion score of each target category, the three sub-scores are multiplied. The multiplicative index construction is based on the assumption that a sub-score of 0 in one component of the index cannot be compensated by another component.

The score of the inclusion index ranges from 0 (no inclusion) to 1 (full inclusion). 0 means that nobody of the target category is entitled to a social cash transfer, 1 means that all members of the target category are entitled to a social cash transfer, always presuming that they are classified as poor according to the definition and methods applied by the programme regulations in case that the programme applies a means test.

For each country the inclusion scores of all the social cash transfer programmes identified in a country are added to obtain a national inclusion score for each target category. The national inclusion score of each target category ranges from 0 to 1. A score of 0 indicates that no programme in the country addresses the target category. A score of 1 indicates that the target category is addressed to the full extent. This means that first, the entire social range of the category is addressed (the entire category rather than subcategories only); second, the entire age range of the target category is covered; and third, the entire geographical range of the country is covered, that is the entire country without geographical restrictions. A score greater than 0 indicates that the target category is addressed to some extent. National inclusion scores greater than 1 are cut off at 1 as the maximum inclusion score. (Table 4.4.5 in Weible 2022)

For countries in which two or three social cash transfer programmes address poor people, the maximum score of all social cash transfer programmes in the country that address poor people is used as the national inclusion score of the target category of poor people (maximum principle). Two programmes that only address some poor people likely do not complement each other in a way that they together would entitle all poor people of this country.

Bibliographic info

Citation:

Related publications:

Misc

Project manager(s): Tobias Böger (A06)

Data release:

Revisions:

Sources

Weible K. Social citizenship for “the poor”? Large N data construction, conceptualization, and comparative analysis of social cash transfers across the global South. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2022. https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2967740