After the new government was established, President Moon Jae-in emphasizes local autonomy such as self-governing finance and autonomous welfare rights in order to build a decentralized republic. In order to achieve self-governing welfare rights, it is necessary to grasp the current status of welfare expenditure, function, and expenditure structure considering local financial capacity, demographic structure and welfare demand. This researcher has continued to study social welfare expenditure with the participation of OECD member countries. Based on this accumulated research ability, the scope of research was extended to regional level and statistical production was carried out. Therefore, this study is the first study to measure the welfare level of the metropolitan municipalities (17 cities and provinces) including the basic autonomous bodies for the first time in Korea and overseas according to OECD guidelines. ‘Regional welfare expenditure’ is a regional integrated income index based on basic statistics such as financial expenditures of the health and welfare sectors and the salaries of the five social insurance schemes. The concept of ‘regional welfare expenditure’ is the sum of ‘national welfare expenditure’. ‘Regional welfare expenditure’ is a regional integrated income index based on basic statistics such as financial expenditures of the health and welfare sectors and the salaries of the five social insurance schemes. Conceptually, the sum of ‘regional welfare expenditure’ is ‘welfare expenditure’ at the national level. To this end, we have systematized efforts to improve the consistency and reliability of the two statistics. Based on this research, we plan to expand the research to 226 basic autonomous organizations. In addition, it plans to analyze a specific area with a high number of elderly people or high unemployment rate, or to target various policy issue areas. Furthermore, by accumulating local welfare expenditure statistics and monitoring the regional characteristics of local governments, it is expected to contribute to the analysis and reduction of gap between regions. 

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I. Introduction ·······················································································29

   1. Research Background and Purpose ················································································31

   2. Research Scope and Methods ················································································34

II. The Concept and Current Status of Local Governments' Welfare Spending ····································37

   1. Review of Previous Studies ···············································39

   2. Financial Structures and State of Local Governments ····························································59

   3. The Concept and Scope of Welfare Expenditures ········································································75

   4. Policy Agenda of Major Metropolitan Governments ····························································86

III. Local Welfare Spending Reporting Standards and Manual Writing ···················133

   1. Review of the SOCX Manual ····································································135

   2. Writing a Manual on Local Welfare Expenditure ·······························································145

   3. Data Collection and DB Construction ···········································································157

IV. DB Modeling for Local Welfare Expenditure ······················································183

   1. Current Welfare Spending DBs ······································································185

   2. Conceptual Modeling for Constructing a Welfare Spending DB ··········································204

V. Production and Analysis of Local Welfare Spending Data ·················································215

   1. The Size of and Differences in Local Welfare Expenditures ·····························································217

   2. Analysis of Distribution ····················································································220

   3. Analysis by Function, Financial Resource, and Program ·································································227

   4. Production and Analysis of Matrix Indicators ···································································237

VI. Research Limits and Remaining Work ······························································243

   1. Limits of Research ·························································································245

   2. Remaining Work ····························································································252

References ···························································································257

Appendices ································································································267