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(urbanisation).. These variables security
proportion of total population leaving the land for urban residence Table 3 presents these statistics for selected ECAFE countries. should naturally be highly correlated with indicators of social development.
Country
Table 3. Certain explanatory variables for social security
development in selected Asian and Oceanic countries._1.
1966
(1)
Proletarianisation
(per cent)
(2)
Urbanisation (per cent)
(3)
Public health and work injury benefits as percent of total social security benefits
Australia
84
83
17.1
Burma
n.a.
n.a.
91.3
Hong Kong
81
87
n.a.
India
16
19
47.6
Iran
42
39
n.a.
Japan
65
68
9.6
Malaysia
53
28
57.9
New Zealand
83
68
27.7
Pakistan
25
13
51.9
Philippines
34
32
59.4
Singapore
73
100
66.9
Sri Lanka
61
19
64.0
Taiwan
46
62
25.5
Thailand
15
18
n.a.
USSR
100*
54
n.a.
Sources:
(1) International Labour Office, Yearbook of Labour Statistics (Geneva,
1969-73. This index refers to the proportion of the labour force in paid employment.
(2) United Nations, Demographic Yearbook 1970 (New York, 1971), table 5.
(3) International Labour Office, The Cost of Social Security 1964-66
(Geneva, 1972), table 1 and table 7.
assumed on the basis of the reputation of the country.
The correlation co-efficients attest to this expectation:
"Proletarianisation" and social security as
percent of GNP:
.67
"proletarianisation" and SSPI:
.74
Urbanisation and social security as percent of GNP:
Urbanisation and SSPI:
.38 (not significant)
.60