Costa Rica - Coverage of unemployment benefits and ALMP in poorest quintile (% of population)

The value for Coverage of unemployment benefits and ALMP in poorest quintile (% of population) in Costa Rica was 19.84 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 11 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.99 in 2017 and a minimum value of 15.04 in 2010.

Definition: Coverage of unemployment benefits and active labor market programs (ALMP) shows the percentage of population participating in unemployment compensation, severance pay, and early retirement due to labor market reasons, labor market services (intermediation), training (vocational, life skills, and cash for training), job rotation and job sharing, employment incentives and wage subsidies, supported employment and rehabilitation, and employment measures for the disabled. Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.

Source: ASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection - Indicators of Resilience and Equity, The World Bank. Data are based on national representative household surveys. (datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/)

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Year Value
2008 16.20
2009 22.64
2010 15.04
2011 16.77
2012 16.03
2014 19.82
2015 20.64
2016 20.18
2017 22.99
2018 18.55
2019 19.84

Limitations and Exceptions: When interpreting ASPIRE performance indicators based on household surveys, it is important to note that the extent to which information on specific transfers and programs is captured in the household surveys can vary a lot across countries. Moreover, household surveys do not capture the universe of social protection programs in the country, in best practice cases just the largest programs. As a consequence, ASPIRE indicators are not fully comparable across program categories and countries; however, they provide approximate measures of social protection systems performance. In addition, there may be cases where ASPIRE performance indicators differ from official WB country reports as ASPIRE indicators are based on a first level analysis of original survey data and unified methodology that does not necessarily reflect country-specific knowledge and in depth country analysis relying on administrative program level data and/or imputations.

Aggregation method: Simple average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Performance