Fam par leave amount own

Quick info
Data type	String
Scale	String
Value labels	digit % of earnings
Technical name	fam_par_leave_amount_own
Category	Family and gender policies
Label	Amount - Parental leave (own coding)
Related indicators

Amount of parental benefit (in original units) (own coding)

Coding rules

This variable provides detailed information about the amount of parental benefit, preserving the original coding from national legislation texts as much as possible. Most entries are coded as “[digit] % of earnings”. However, a few cases are coded as flat rates or minimum wages.

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Project manager(s): Keonhi Son, Tobias Böger, Simone Tonelli, Petra Buhr, Sonja Drobnič, and Johannes Huinink (A06)

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Sources

• Council of Europe. Various years. Mutual Information System on Social Protection of the Council of Europe (MISSCEO). Strasbourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-social-charter/missceo-database

• International Labour Organization. 1994. Conditions of Work Digest. Geneva: ILO. https://www.ilo.org/global/publications/ilo-bookstore/order-online/books/WCMS_PUBL_9221091996_EN/lang--en/index.htm

• International Labour Organization. Various years. Social Security Database. Geneva: ILO. https://www.ilo.org/sesame/IFPSES.SSDBMenu

• International Network on Leave Policies & Research. Various years. International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research. https://www.leavenetwork.org/annual-review-reports/archive-reviews/

• OECD. Various years. Employment: Length of maternity leave, parental leave, and paid father-specific leave. Paris: OECD Publishing. https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=54760

• Statistical Office of the European Communities. Various years. European System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS). Luxembourg: Eurostat. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Glossary:European_system_of_integrated_social_protection_statistics_(ESSPROS)

• World Bank. 2024. Women, Business and the Law Data. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank. https://wbl.worldbank.org/