Welcome! This is the website of the Immigrant Exclusion from Social Programs Index. It measures policy differentiation between immigrants and native-born citizens in seven social programs, based on 32 indicators. The database currently includes annual data from 1990 to 2023 on 22 countries.

On this website you can find key results from the dataset (see page ‘Key findings’), consult the codebook and detailed information on the scores for each country (‘Documentation’), review in which studies the dataset has been used (‘Publications’), and download the data for your own research purposes (‘Download’).

This dataset and website have been developed and designed by Dr. Edward Koning, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph (Canada). You can find more information on my departmental profile page. Feel free to share questions and comments through ekoning@uoguelph.ca.

Banner image: Quarrel, by Dawson.