Fam mat leave dur ben own2

Quick info
Data type	Weeks
Scale	Metric
Value labels	digit
Technical name	fam_mat_leave_dur_ben_own2
Category	Family and gender policies
Label	Duration - Matenrity benefit (in weeks) (own coding)
Related indicators	fam_mat_leave_dur_paid_own (Duration of paid maternity leave in original unit)

Duration of maternity benefit in weeks

Coding rules

In most cases, calendar days were converted to weeks, unless national legislation or other existing databases specified days as working days.

Citation: Keonhi Son, Tobias Böger, Simone Tonelli, Petra Buhr, Sonja Drobnič, and Johannes Huinink, 2020, “Codebook of Historical Database on Maternity Leave (HDML)”, available at: “https://www.socialpolicydynamics.de/sfb-publikationen/sfb-1342-technical-paper-series”.

Related publications:

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

Data release:

Revisions: No revisions yet

Before 1949:

International Labour Organization. Various years. Legislative Series. Geneva: ILO. https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/P/09607/
Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. Various years. Social Policy and Law Shared Database (SPLASH). Munich: Max Planck Institute. https://splash-db.eu/
OECD. 2017. OECD Family database, PF 2.5 Annex: Detail of change in parental leave by country, Paris: OECD Publishing. https://www.oecd.org/els/family/PF2_5_Trends_in_leave_entitlements_around_childbirth_annex.pdf

1949–1989:

Gauthier, Anne H. 2011. Comparative Family Policy Database. Rostock: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). https://www.demogr.mpg.de/cgi-bin/databases/FamPolDB/about.plx
International Labour Organization. Various years. TRAVAIL Legal Databases. Geneva: ILO. https://www.ilo.org/dyn/travail/travmain.byCountry2
International Labour Organization. Various years. Database of National Labour, Social Security and Related Human Rights Legislation (NATLEX). Geneva: ILO. https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex4.byCountry?p_lang=en
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 1999-2019 reports: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssptw/

Since 1990:

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
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/