Costa Rica - Coverage of unemployment benefits and ALMP in 3rd quintile (% of population)

The value for Coverage of unemployment benefits and ALMP in 3rd quintile (% of population) in Costa Rica was 25.48 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 11 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30.33 in 2016 and a minimum value of 23.02 in 2012.

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 23.77
2009 27.66
2010 23.40
2011 24.13
2012 23.02
2014 26.07
2015 26.83
2016 30.33
2017 29.06
2018 24.24
2019 25.48

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