Social welfare policy should cope flexibly with the changes in people's economic status, consumption expenditures, value judgments, and the status of economy-wide income distribution, poverty and inequality. However, existing cross-sectional survey data are not suffice to analyze the socio-economicdynamics because their inability to identify the age effect and the cohort effect. In order to overcome such limitations, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) and Seoul National University (SNU) began the Korea Welfare Panel Study (KOWEPS) in 2006. The 14th wave of KOWEPS has been carried out in 2019. There are three types of questionnaires for the survey: the first is for the households, the second is for household members, and the third is for special topics (supplements). The content of KOWEPS is composed of socio-economic information, welfare status, and attitude on welfare or something for individual and household. The special topic for this wave is ‘Awareness on Welfare’. In this 14th wave, we have completed a sample of 6,331 households which include both the original and newly added households.
The descriptive report provides a wide variety of contents about general features, economic conditions, employment status, social security, welfare needs and special topic for the 14th year survey. The results could be a reference for the researchers who try to use KOWEPS.