1. THE SOCIAL PROTECTION FLOOR (SPF) COST CALCULATOR
The SPF Cost Calculator helps to:
Estimate the costs involved in providing Social Protection Floor benefits for the population of a specified country or set of countries
Provide policy makers and the general public with an initial assessment of the affordability of basic social protection benefits
Explore and compare different policy options towards a gradual implemention of a Social Protection Floor (based on ILO Recommendation No. 202)

2. Inputs and Data Sources
It is based on most recent data provided by
Country specific statistics
The World Bank Development Indicators
The UN World Population Prospects
The IMF World Economic Outlook
The ILO and other relevant data sources
This data is then used directly, combined and/or adjusted to 2014 level to create a comprehensive list of variables necessary to conduct the SPF calculations.
The specific sources used for each indicator are listed in the model.

3. How to use the Calculator
The cost estimation assessment follows Five (5) simple steps:
Choosing relevant country / set of countries
Choosing required benefit
Specify desired program architecture
Save the results file
Read the results

4. Click to start the cost estimation process

5. Step 1: Choose the relevant country / COUNTRIES
Click for further explanations
Personally choose the countries from a list
All countries in the same income group
All countries in the same geographical region
All countries in the database

6. On any page, process can be restarted by clicking here
At least one country should be selected for estimation by using the «Add» button
On any page, process can be restarted by clicking here
On any page clock togo back to previous page
Click here always to continue to next step

7. At least one option should be selected for estimation
Click to add or remove countries from chosen groups

8. At least one option should be selected for estimation

9. STEP 2: Choose the required benefit
At least one benefit option should be selected to estimate

10. Further Specifications
STEP 3: Specify desired programme architecture
The user has the choice between different benefit designs in terms of :
Reference Value
Replacement Rate
Benefit Levels
Universal / Limited Target group
Duration of guarantee
Further Specifications

11. All the benefits have two (2) things in common:
Reference Value for the calculation of the benefit. Has three (3) options:
-National poverty line
-National minimum wage
-Dollars Adjusted by Purchasing Power
Replacement Rate in respect to that value.
Specifies which percentage of the poverty line or minimum wage, or how many PPP US$/day should be granted.

15. STEP 4: Saving the results
By Default, report is saved in same location as the calculator but can be changed using the «Change Folder» button
By Default, «resultsday_month_year_hour_minute», but can be renamed
Check box to include results of individual country information on separate excel worksheets
Click button to generate report in new Excel workbook and close the calculator

16. Description of the benefit parameters
Step 5: Reading the results
The created workbook consists of :
An abstract worksheet indicating the costs for each country, each benefit, in total for the different countries and on average for all countries.
Description of the benefit parameters

17. Individual charts (bar charts) comparing the country results for each benefit as shown below:

18. A chart displaying the cost of the complete set of benefits for all countries with full information included in the cost estimation.

19. Individual country worksheets indicating the relevant input variables used, as well as the calculated cost of the benefits, upon request, by ticking the “Include country results” on the Results saving sheet.