Existence distinct long-term care system (type B)
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Binary |
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| Technical name | health_LTC_system_existence_comp_LTCsystem |
| Category | Health and long-term care |
| Label | Existence distinct long-term care system (type B) |
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The indicator specifies the existance of a distinct long-term care system (type B) in a country in a given year from 1940-2020. Year were no system has (yet) been introduced are coded ‘0’, the year of introduction plus all subsequent years ‘1’. A disinct long-term care system is introduced when (i) country-wide legislation is adopted which (ii) establishes entitlements to LTC benefits, (iii) one/several specific institution(s) are determined responsible for manageing the LTC system (integration), and (iv) LTC dependency is recognised as a distinct social risk and treated as a specific and independent social policy field (cf. De Carvalho & Fischer 2020; Fischer et al. 2021).
Coding rules
Year were no system has (yet) been introduced are coded ‘0’, the year of introduction plus all subsequent years ‘1’. The first year of system existance corresponds to the year of formal adoption of the law estabilishing the LTC system. Multiple data sources were used for identifying the year/date of system introduction: laws and regulations, academic publications and reports and grey literature, national online newspaper articles and (official) websites as well as primary data collected through the project’s Expert Survey on Long-Term Care in 2020/21. For more information on the sources used per country see Fischer & Sternkopf (2021).
Bibliographic info
Citation: Fischer, Johanna, and Meika Sternkopf. (forthcoming). The Historical Long-Term Care Systems Dataset (HLTCS): Data Collection and Codebook. CRC 1342 Technical Paper Series.
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Misc
Project manager(s): A04 project, main responsible person Johanna Fischer
Data release:
- Version 0.001: Initial release
Revisions: No revisions yet
Sources
- For a detailed overview of all sources per country used please see: Fischer, Johanna, and Meika Sternkopf. (forthcoming). The Historical Long-Term Care Systems Dataset (HLTCS): Data Collection and Codebook. CRC 1342 Technical Paper Series.