The WORLD Policy Analysis Center is pleased to provide public access to its data on constitutional rights, laws, and policies. To date, the following databases have been made available for public access:
- Longitudinal Policy Data, Africa was released in partnership with DataFirst on International Human Rights Day (December 10), 2024. This data highlights the progress African countries have made over the past 20 to 30 years on advancing rights in areas spanning early childhood, including paid parental leave and tuition-free pre-primary education; access to education, including tuition-free and compulsory education from primary through the completion of secondary; prohibitions of early marriage, including legal loopholes; prohibitions of gender and caregiving discrimination at work, including all stages of work and provisions to support effective enforcement; and prohibitions of domestic violence, including penalties.
- Paid Personal Health Leave Data includes detailed indicators on design of national paid sick and medical leave, and was released in February 2024 with data up to date as of January 2022. In addition to indicators on availability of leave from the first day of illness, duration and wage replacement rates of leave, and guarantees to self-employed workers, this dataset includes an assessment of specific eligibility criteria linked to minimum firm size, worker tenure, and minimum hours across 193 United Nations member countries.
- Longitudinal Gender Equality in Paid Parental Leave data was released in December 2023 alongside the publication of the journal article "Progress towards gender equality in paid parental leave: an analysis of legislation in 193 countries from 1995–2022". The dataset contains the data displayed in the figures and maps in the paper including the availability and duration of paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, and paid parental leave for 193 countries from 1995 to 2022, overall and separately for low-, middle- and high-income countries, together with 2022 data on the difference in the duration of paid leave for birth mothers compared to birth fathers as well as the difference in the duration of paid leave for adopting mothers compared to adopting fathers. A detailed methodology is available in the published article found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13668803.2023.2226809.
- Age Discrimination at Work was released in December 2023. This dataset includes an update to May 2023 of all age discrimination variables included in previous versions of the WORLD Workplace Discrimination and Harassment dataset, including workplace discrimination on the basis of age in multiple aspects of work, such as hiring or pay; indirect discrimination; harassment; exceptions that permit age discrimination in terminations; and provisions around employer responsibilities and retaliation for bringing forward claims of age discrimination.
- U.S. Short-term Paid Sick and Safe Days Data was released in August 2023. This dataset includes a variety of detailed indicators on laws and policies in U.S. states, cities, counties and the District of Columbia on earned time off for short-term personal and family members' illness and needs related to domestic violence, sexual assault and/or stalking. Measures include eligibility criteria, types of workers covered, types of needs and family members covered, duration available, job protection and protection against retaliation.
- Paid Leave and Job Protection for Parents, People Who Are Sick and People Who Have Sick Family Members in the United States Data was released in June 2023. This dataset (abbreviated on maps and graphics as the US Paid Family and Medical Leave database) includes a variety of detailed indicators on paid parental leave, personal paid medical leave and paid family medical leave across 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Indicators include the length and wage replacement of paid leave, availability of job protection, and specific eligibility criteria linked to firm size, worker tenure, minimum hours, and earnings requirements.
- Gender Equality in the Economy Data was released in February 2023 alongside the publication of Equality within Our Lifetimes. This dataset includes a range of detailed indicators on laws and policies in 193 countries that are critical to advancing gender equality in the economy. Areas addressed include: laws prohibiting gender, caregiving, and intersectional discrimination at work; laws prohibiting sexual harassment at work; implementation and enforcement of laws prohibiting discrimination and sexual harassment at work; paid leave policies to support balancing work and caregiving across the life course including during infancy, childhood, adulthood, and old age; and laws that remove barriers to girls’ education. Longitudinal data is included to show how far the world has come in key areas, and how far it has to go.
- Family Health Needs Data was released in September 2022. This dataset includes a range of detailed indicators on legislative provisions that enable workers to balance work and caregiving needs by providing paid leave to support family health needs across the life course in all 193 United Nations member countries. These provisions matter to population health, family economic security, and women’s economic opportunities. For children, the data examines everyday, serious, and disability-specific health needs. For adults, the data captures a wide range of family relationships, including spouses, partners, parents, adult children, siblings, parents-in-law, and grandparents.
- Emergency Childcare Leave during COVID-19 Data was released in September 2022. This dataset includes a range of detailed indicators on country approaches to addressing the markedly increased care needs during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 182 United Nations member countries. The data examines both policies in place prior to the pandemic, and emergency policy approaches during the pandemic to meet care needs during school and childcare center closures.
- Child Immigration Detention Data is the world’s first systematic effort to evaluate protections against immigration detention for migrant and asylum-seeking minors across the 150 most populous UN member states. Released alongside research findings in the International Journal of Human Rights, this dataset describes the conditions under which accompanied and unaccompanied minor migrants and asylum-seekers can be detained, as well as whether they are guaranteed access to education and healthcare during their detention.
- Disability Data: Originally released in 2019 and updated in 2023, this dataset includes a range of policy indicators aligned with important commitments outlined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Areas addressed include: legislative guarantees to reasonable accommodation at work; legislative prohibitions of disability-based discrimination in hiring, pay, training, promotions and demotions, harassment, terminations, and prohibitions of indirect discrimination; legislative guarantees to non-discrimination and inclusion in education; and constitutional rights to non-discrimination and access to education, health, and work.
- WORLD Areas, including:
- Constitutions
- Education
- Income and Social Protection
- Adult Labor
- Infant Caregiving
- Child Labor
- Child Marriage
- Workplace Discrimination and Harassment
- Workplace Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment
- Climate Adaptation Data was created in partnership with McGill University’s Climate Change and Adaptation Research Group. This dataset contains key information about countries’ efforts to identify and address the vulnerabilities associated with climate change, including the types of responses countries have undertaken to increase resilience and the types of actors involved in planning, designing, and implementing adaptation.
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