Access to social assistance for permanent migrant workers

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	Not applicable
Technical name	isr_permmig_socass_access_s
Category	Immigrant social rights
Label	q1b
Related indicators

It is measured if in the years of data collection, migrant workers who held a permanent residence permit did have a legal claim to tax-funded social assistance

Coding rules

Access to social assistance for permanent migrant workers (q1b) Question: In the years [YYYY-YYYY], did migrant workers who held a permanent residence permit have a legal claim to tax-funded social assistance?

Specifications

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Value	Specification
0	No Access OR status of permanent resident does not exist
0.3	Discretion (citizen household members)
0.4	Residency requirement 10 (incl.) years and higher
0.5	Residency requirement of 8-9 (incl.) years (inclusion in household registry)
0.6	Residency requirement 6-7 (incl.) years
0.7	Residency requirement 4-5 (incl.) years
0.8	Residency requirement of 2-3 (incl.) years
0.9	Residency requirement up to one year (incl.)
1	Same as citizens (other than residency requirements)

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Missing values

Depending on the cause of the absence of a value, several types of missing values can be differentiated. These are as follows:

• -991 Don’t know
• -992 Former communist countries
• -993 Benefit did not exist (including for citizens)
• -994 Legal category of migrants did not exist
• -995 Neither benefit nor legal category of migrants existed
• -996 Missing value for Myanmar 1980-2010
• -997 Index is missing because all underlying variables are also missing
• -998 Missing for other reasons
• -999 Country not in sample in 1980-199

Bibliographic info

Citation:

Related publications: Römer, Friederike; Harris, Eloisa; Henninger, Jakob; Missler, Franziska (2021): The Migrant Social Protection Data Set (MIGSP): Technical Report. Bremen: SFB 1342 Technical Paper Series.

Misc

Project manager(s): Dr. Friederike Römer

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