at the same time it concerns the coverage and qualifying conditions of the insurance schemes financing of the schemes and worker contributions and the level and duration of the benefits furthermore the public social security expenditure as a share of gdp is another type of context information that provides an indication of the overall public redistributive effort of a given country yet its interpretation presents inherent difficulties indicators regarding social protection eg unemployment insurance might be correlated with the economic cycle and countries may consider to analyse the indicators together with gdp growth eg if employment growth after a recession concerns predominantly jobs that are not covered by parts of social protection further potentially relevant context information includes the percentage of persons at or above the statutory retirement age or and over who are employed the percentage of unemployed persons receiving regular periodic social security unemployment benefits contributory and noncontributory schemes as well as the percentage of the population above the statutory pensionable age or aged or above benefiting from an oldage pension