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Welcome to WeSISpedia, the collaborative codebook accompanying WeSIS. The aim of WeSIS is to provide the most comprehensive database on social policies throughout the world since 1880. WeSIS includes data on social policies (Y) and explanatory variables capturing domestic conditions (X1) like policy legacies, economic, financial and political factors, information about the social structure, culture, and geography. Reflecting different forms of interdependencies and relations among states (X2), WeSIS further includes data about (flows of) communication, political institutional linkages, economic relations, migration, colonial dependencies, and violent conflicts. Every indicator that is part of WeSIS is documented in WeSISpedia. Furthermore, coding rules and harmonized country codes are recorded.

WeSIS and WeSISpedia are a central component of the Collaborative Research Center 1342 on Global Dynamics of Social Policy.

If you are filling an indicator page, please follow the coding rules and the instructions of the indicator template or the indicator form to create a page.

If you are preparing a file to upload in WeSIS, please follow the instructions of the file formats and make sure you are using the correct country names and codes. The file upload guide is work in progress.

Social policies (Y)

• Old age and survivors
• Labour and labour market
• Health and long-term care
• Education and training
• Family and gender policies

Domestic conditions (X1)

• Policy legacies
• Economic and financial factors
• Political factors
• Social structure
• Culture
• Geography

Interdependencies and relations (X2)

• Communication
• Political institutional linkages
• Economic relations
• Migration
• Violent conflicts and colonial dependencies

Coding

• Coding rules
• Country codes
• File formats
• Optional column names
• Abbreviations
• File upload guide

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