Asia-Pacific Social Protection Week

1-5 August 2016

ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines

Capacity Building for Monitoring Social

Protection Programs Tools and Indicators:
MONGOLIA

Oyunchimeg Dandar
Director
Population and Social Statistics
Department, NSO

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Contents

Mongolia in figures
Importance of monitoring
Required information
Household socio-economic survey data and application.
A case of Mongolia and experience
Conclusion

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Mongolia in figures

Territory:

1.5 million square kms (The worlds 19th largest)

Total length of border: 8.2 thousand km of which: with Russia 3.5 thousand km with
China 4.7 thousand km
Administration units: Capital city and 21 Province, 330 Sub-province, 1613 Bags
Population:

3.06 million (2015)

Population density: 2.0 per square km

Urban/rural proportion: Urban 67.2%, Rural 32.8%

Life expectancy:

Male 64 years, female 72 years

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Social Protection in Mongolia

Social
Insurance

Social Welfare Pension

Community-Based Social Welfare Service
Concessions for the elders
Concessions for disabled people
Benefits for honored elders
Cash benefit for the Honored Mother title
Allowances to pregnant and lactating mothers
Social welfare benefit
Social welfare concession, conditional cash
benefits
Cash benefits for children aged below 18
Human development fund allowances
Food stamp
School lunch program

Retirement Insurance
Benefits Insurance
Occupational Injury and Diseases
Unemployment Insurance
Health Insurance

Labor market
program

Social Welfare

Currently, there are more than 70 social protection

programs in Mongolia

Public work program

Job mediation and advisory services
Skill development and training
/Vocational training
Support for employment of people with
disabilities

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Importance of Monitoring
Monitoring of SPI:
The current social protection
monitoring system provides data
mainly on expenditure and
beneficiaries.

Data from
General Office for Social Welfare
Service
General Office for Social Insurance
Ministry of Labour
Ministry of Education, Culture and
Science
Other large programs (Food Stamp,
School lunch)

Need:
What is the size of the
target population
covered by specific
programs? Can we
measure it?
Can the results be
presented by gender and
poverty status?

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Required Information
Lack of Information

Lack of information about population profile, especially

beneficiaries information by living standard.

Beneficiaries gender information.

Need to collect data from numerous sources

There is no unit responsible to aggregate SPI data.

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HSES Data and Application

If we use SPI Module questionnaire in HSES survey

HSES estimates amount of SPI program expenditures and the number of

beneficiaries

Which approve to administration database

SPI data will be a comprehensive information source of SPI from the survey

Simpler to aggregate

From SPI module of HSES questionnaire disaggregated beneficiaries by living

standard and poverty status who were covered by SPI programs.

Measure programs to reach target population.

More additional data with other programs and project. SPI data are more accurate
and provide better opportunities for in-depth analysis. For example:

SPI gender analysis,

An accurate number of beneficiaries (less duplication),
Performance of social protection programs,
Impact on poverty and inequality in relation to SPI programs.

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A Case of Mongolia
Data collected are transfers and remittances that are Social
insurance and Social allowances in Other income section of
HSES.
HSES report includes the chapter Transfers and Remittances.
Collected data do not provide sufficient detailed information.
Social insurance and allowances indicators are combined in the
questionnaire.

Need to find more optimal and effective ways for in-depth analysis
of HSES information.

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Mongolias Experience
ADB Technical Assistance project
Organized meetings and discussions with:
Ministry of Population development and Social Protection,
Ministry of Labour,
General Office for Social Insurance,
General Office for Social Welfare Service
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
Questionnaire has 4 sections with 39 questions and 68 indicators.
Section 0. General household information
Section 1. General household members information
Section 2. Part A. Social protection pension and allowance
Part B. Other social protection assistance, concessions and
services
Section 3. Labour promotion programs
The pilot survey frame was 326 households from 3 aimags and Ulaanbaatar city.
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Mongolias Experience
Dissemination workshop and
training (estimation of SPI and
Adept result) was organized for
key
staff
of
ministries,
representatives of international
development agencies and local
statistical departments on June
13-14, 2016.
A Country report contains 72
tables from Adept results,
survey results of the pilot
survey and SPI calculation and
were published in Mongolian
and English.
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Conclusion
The project enhanced capacities of the NRSO to produce, maintain
and ensure availability of updated social protection indicators by
using HSES data and to better evaluate and monitor the Social
Protection Programs in the country.
The survey results for 2012 and 2014 HSES were used to calculate
the SPI and carry out in-depth analysis using the ADePT software.
The usefulness of HSES survey for better assessment and
monitoring of social protection programs are well understood.
Social protection program module in the survey should be revised:
Disaggregate the social insurance and social welfare programs and
the social protection module developed and tested for this project
could be used for this purpose.
When we have detailed data on social protection programs we would
be able to ensure more effective assessment of social protection
programs in Mongolia.
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THANK YOU FOR

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