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Antigua & Barbuda Social Security Board Volume 5, Issue 17 1st DS 3rd Quarter 2018 - 2019 Statistics Bulletin INTRODUCTION This issue provides an overview of the operational performance of the Antigua & Barbuda Social Security Board (ABSSB) for the 3rd Quarter 2019 with comparison to the same period of 2018.

Information on Registration, Active Contributors and Beneficiaries activities are shared therein.
Registration Activity 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 Registration Activity 3rd Qtr, 2018 & 2019 792 801 70 73 88 117 Insured Persons Employers Self-Employed 2018 2019 Figure 1 Figure 1 depicts the registration activity by category for the 3rd Quarter of 2018 and 2019, respectively.

For the 3rd Quarter 2019, new insured persons increased by 1.1% relative to the same period in the previous year.
New registration of employers increased by 4.3%; and, for self-employed persons, registration increased by 33%.
R - Revised www.socialsecurity.gov.ag 1 Antigua & Barbuda Social Security Board Volume 5, Issue 17 1st DS 3rd Quarter 2018 - 2019 Insured Persons Registration Table 1: Insured Persons by Age Group & Sex Age Group 3rd Qtr 2018 R Male Female Male Female 3rd Qtr 2019 16 - 19 20 - 29 30 - 39 40 - 49 50 - 59 60 - 64 188 134 81 43 25 0 164 77 51 18 10 1 182 104 39 37 36 4 196 97 42 43 19 0 471 321 402 399 Total 792 801 Table 1 shows new persons by age group and sex.
insured female registrants There was an increase of 24.3% in 3rd for 2019.

While, male Quarter registrants decreased by 14.6% insured persons The largest proportion [47.2%] of for 3rd new Quarter 2019 was within the 16 – 19 year age group.
Table 2: Unemployed Insured Persons by Age Group & Sex Age Group 16 - 19 20 - 29 30 - 39 40 - 49 50 - 59 60 - 64 3rd Qtr 2018 R Male Female Male Female 3rd Qtr 2019 102 112 147 169 96 14 9 5 1 67 24 4 4 0 27 7 17 11 1 33 18 20 10 0 227 211 210 250 Total 438 460 R - Revised www.socialsecurity.gov.ag For the 3rd Quarter 2019, 57.4% of new insured persons indicated that they were unemployed at the point of registration.
Further, data showed of the 460 indicated an insured persons who unemployed the highest status, proportion of these registrants [68.7%] were under age 20 years for the 3rd Quarter of 2019. indicated Approximately, 63% of that females unemployed the registration review.
registered they were of point the period under for at 2 Antigua & Barbuda Social Security Board Volume 5, Issue 17 1st DS 3rd Quarter 2018 - 2019 Table 3: Insured Persons Registration by Nationality Nationality 3rd Qtr 2018R 3rd Qtr 2019 Antigua & Barbuda OECS CARICOM1 International Total 464 129 73 126 792 483 161 73 84 801 Registration of insured persons from the OECS increased by 24.8 %; there was no change in CARICOM nationals; and International registrants saw a decrease by 33.3% during the 3rd Quarter 2019 relative to the corresponding period of 2018.
There was a slight increase of Antigua and Barbuda nationals by [4.1%] in 2019.
(Table 3) Table 4: Insured Persons Registration by Industry Industry Description Accommodation and food service activities Activities of households as employers… Administrative and support service activities Agriculture, forestry and fishing Arts, entertainment and recreation Construction Education Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning … Human health and social work activities Information and communication Manufacturing Other service activities Professional, scientific … Transportation and storage Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles Grand Total 3rd Qtr 2018R 3rd Qtr 2019P Non-OECS P - Provisional R - Revised www.socialsecurity.gov.ag Table 4 shows those new insured persons who stated the industry they were employed in at the point of Registration during Quarter 3 of 2018 and 2019, respectively.
There was approximately 12.9% less new insured persons who were employed, of for 3rd Qtr 2019 Registration, relative to the same period in 2018. point the at For the period under review, new insured workers in the Human health and social work Industry increased by 328.6%.

Conversely, in a there was Construction workers by 69.6% relative to 2018. decrease Approximately 50.2% of the new insured registrants who indicated their status as “employed” were male.
3 Antigua & Barbuda Social Security Board Volume 5, Issue 17 1st DS 3rd Quarter 2018 - 2019 Economic Activity: Contributors Table 5: Active Contributors by Industry Industry Description Accommodation and food service activities Activities of households as employers… Administrative and support service activities Agriculture, forestry and fishing Arts, entertainment and recreation Construction Education Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning … Financial and insurance activities Human health and social work activities Information and communication Manufacturing Mining and quarrying Other service activities Professional, scientific … Public administration and … Social Security Real estate activities Transportation and storage Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles Grand Total 3rd Qtr 2018R 3rd Qtr 2019 P No.
of Employers 320 383 No.

of Employees 6,471 573 No.

of Employers 267 318 No.
of Employees The number of active employers and employees (inclusive of dual employment) by industry for 3rd Quarter 2018 and 2019, respectively, are shown at Table 5.
Overall, employers’ and employee’s participation declined by 11.0% and 3.6% respectively.

Also, a decline of 13.7% was recorded for self-employed persons relative to the same period in 2018.
R - Revised www.socialsecurity.gov.ag 4 Antigua & Barbuda Social Security Board Volume 5, Issue 17 1st DS 3rd Quarter 2018 - 2019 Benefits Activity: Short-Term Branch 1,400 1,200 1,000 800 600 400 200 0 Number of Short-Term Benefit Claims Approved 3rd Qtr, 2018 & 2019 1,204 1,085 133 72 148 119 107 101 97 21 Sickness Benefit Maternity Allowance Maternity Grant Funeral Grant Other Grants 2018 2019 Figure 2 Figure 2 shows the Short-term Benefit claims that were processed during 3rd Quarter 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Approval of Short-term Benefit claims slightly decreased by 3.4% for 3rd Quarter 2019 relative to the same period in 2018.

Sickness Benefit was the only benefit that showed an increase relative to 2018 by approximately 11%.

The majority of all Short-term Benefit claims were for Sickness Benefit – 79.4%.

With 1,204 insured persons receiving Sickness Benefit, the average length of sick days was 8.8 days at a cost of $0.733 million.
The average length of sick days for 3rd Quarter 2018 was 10.2 days at a cost of $0.701 million.
R - Revised www.socialsecurity.gov.ag 5 Antigua & Barbuda Social Security Board Volume 5, Issue 17 1st DS 3rd Quarter 2018 - 2019 Benefits Activity: Long-Term Branch Number of Pensioners July - September, 2018R & 2019 11,324 11,349 11,062 11,042 10,482 10,324 11,400 11,200 11,000 10,800 10,600 10,400 10,200 10,000 9,800 July August September 2018 2019 Figure 3 Figure 3 illustrates the number of pensioners in receipt of a monthly pension for the 3rd Quarter of 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Approximately 113 new pensions were awarded during the 3rd Quarter 2019; a decrease of 31.9% relative to the same period in 2018.

Conversely, 96 insured persons exited the Social Security Programme through death, of which 72 were Pension recipients.

Of the 11,349 pension recipients, approximately 91% or 10,324 pensioners received an Age Pension during the 3rd Quarter 2019.

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