PROSPERED Dataset: Paternity Leave

Is there any paternity leave (i.e. available only to fathers), whether paid or unpaid? Paid paternity leave only includes leave that is available exclusively to fathers of infants. It does not include paid parental leave, which is leave that either parent of an infant can take, nor child care leave, which is generally much longer in duration and either unpaid or paid at a lower rate. We report the leave available in weeks under normal conditions, excluding extended leave periods under extraordinary circumstances such as single parents. Also we always assume that fathers met all the qualifying conditions to receive the leave (such as work tenure, payments into Social Security). Longitudinal data is available for every year between 1995 and 2016 for 193 UN Member States.

本数据集针对193个联合国会员国（UN Member States）1995年至2016年的每一年，统计其是否设有父亲专属育儿假（paternity leave），涵盖带薪与无薪两类休假。其中，带薪父亲专属育儿假仅指专为婴儿父亲设立的休假福利，不包含父母双方均可申领的带薪育儿假（parental leave），亦不包含时长通常更长、多为无薪或按较低标准支付薪酬的儿童护理假（child care leave）。本次统计仅核算常规情形下的休假时长（以周为单位），排除单亲父母等特殊情境下的延长休假时段。同时，本数据集默认所有申请休假的父亲均已满足休假的全部资格条件，例如工作年限、社会保障（Social Security）缴费要求等。数据集涵盖1995年至2016年每一年的完整纵向面板数据。