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-economic dynamics 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) begun 'Korea Welfare Panel Study (KOWEPS)' in 2006.

In 2015, 10th wave of KOWEPS has carried out. There are three types of questionnaires for the survey: the first is for the households, the second is for household members who are aged 15 and over, 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 'Children'. In this 10th wave, we have completed about 6,914 household samples which include both the original, the added new households.

The descriptive report provides a wide variety of contents about the general features, economic conditions, employment status, social security, welfare needs and disability which is the special topic for the 10th year survey. For the first time, this descriptive report provides some results from longitudinal analysis. The results could be a reference for the researchers who try to use KOWEPS.