Family Policy Database

Family policy in Western Europe based on international comparison.
Institutional regulations (order and law) and quantitative key data for
the individual countries in the form of aggregate numbers in a database
with time series on an annual basis.

Topics: I. Dates of time series 1. General family allowances: Amount
of family support benefits; age-related additional payments and those
for disabled children; allowances for children (family allowance);
allowances for families or households: Total number of families or
households entitled to support; allowances for children (family
allowance); allowances for families or households: Total number of
families or households entitled to support; claims structure (total
disbursements and type of the restricted claims); financing structure:
Total income and type of funding sources.

2. Financial benefits for one-parent-families (single parents).

3. Aids moneys to assure the subsistence level: Amount of the support
benefits; income-maintenance payments for special needs; type of
special needs; payee (total number persons, children and families or
households); charges structure (total disbursements and type of the
tied charges); financing structure (all of the takings and type of the
funding sources).

4. Family allowances for short-term care or long time care: Height of
the supporting benefits; income-maintenance payments for adults
entitled to maintenance as well as for children and low income groups;
total number of the care receivers as well as the children, adults and
old; children in two or one parent households; household structure of
the older care receivers; total number of the families authorized to
receive payment or households and number of children in the household;
charges structure (total disbursements and type of the tied charges);
financing structure (all of the takings and type of the funding
sources).

5. Supply of childcare facilities: Total number of the childcare
facilities; take for the support facilities and the maintenance; total
number and type of the support places available; number of busy staff
and maintenance; employment relation; height of the remuneration for
work; full time or part-time employment; number of the children looked
after and straps of the facilities; age distribution of the children;
charges structure (height of the total disbursements as well as sum
spent by the straps for the child care; tied charges; financing
structure (all of the takings and type of the funding sources.

6. Financial deliveries and temporal claims for the care of families
or household members: Sex and number of payees; professional position
and employment relation of the payees; utilization time.

II. Information about institutional regulations for general family
allowances: Law basis; law level; financially responsible authority;
national, regional or local level of the financial maintenance; funding
sources; right prerequisites; income and compulsory insurance limits;
needs test; financial assistance regulations; taxation of financial
assistance.