Global Work-Injury Policy Database (GWIP): Project Overview and Codebook, v2

The Global Work-Injury Policy Database (GWIP) provides data on the introduction and development of work-injury policy in 189 independent nation states or territories. Work-injury policies are also historically known as “workmen’s compensation” and sometimes “accident insurance”. This paper provides the codebook for the GWIP. Several aspects of this research are confounded by terminology; therefore, we provide theoretical definitions and justifications of coding decisions in addition to the hard codes. This document accompanies the third public release of the 2020 cross-sectional data, gwip_v3.csv and the first public release of the longitudinal gwip_long_v1.csv data.