Definition: Special scheme

Category: ESSPROS Manual

Special schemes are social protection schemes designed to protect a specific, restricted section of the population.

The ESSPROS defines four separate sub-groups of special schemes.

- Schemes for public servants;
- Schemes for the self-employed;
- Other occupational schemes;
- Other schemes.

This definition is identical in versions 1996, 2008 and 2011 of the Manual http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-RA-11-014-EN.pdf Eurostat, "ESSPROS Manual 2008"Eurostat, "ESSPROS Manual 1996"
Source:
Eurostat, "ESSPROS Manual - The European System of integrated Social Protection Statistics", 2011 Edition, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2011
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