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Registered foreign workers affiliated to Social Security. By sex and type of scheme. Provinces

Registered foreign workers affiliated to Social Security. By sex and type of scheme. Provinces Catalonia
By sex Men Women By type of scheme General and coal mining Special agriculture Special sea Special domestic Special self-employed Total (2)
2014 197,405 156,640 247,038 15,058 701 39,627 51,621 354,046
2013 197,482 161,853 262,363 13,356 726 35,279 47,615 359,339
2012 210,038 165,386 273,406 17,777 748 38,287 45,210 375,428
2011 226,560 170,089 298,024 18,499 740 36,750 42,638 396,651
2010 237,449 173,198 315,778 18,087 729 36,382 39,673 410,649
2009 247,187 172,348 327,022 17,414 754 34,859 39,488 419,536
2008 251,345 172,923 331,819 16,076 381 34,295 41,697 424,268
2007 275,450 165,291 358,330 12,633 361 27,643 41,775 440,742
2006 254,916 151,599 325,886 12,140 319 36,178 31,994 374,523
2005 234,619 143,233 283,840 13,798 286 52,864 27,067 377,855
2004 161,834 82,191 196,877 11,020 204 13,261 22,670 244,032
2003 135,069 66,059 159,236 10,635 163 12,347 18,750 201,131
2002 117,267 57,290 137,189 8,145 151 13,444 15,633 174,562
Source:
2002: Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales. Subsecretaría de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales. Anuario de estadísticas laborales y de asuntos sociales.
2003-2007: Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales. Subsecretaría de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales.
2008: Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.
2009: Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.
2010-2013: Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social.
2014: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.
Notes:
Annual average.
Must consider that one single person can be accounted for as many times as social security payments require, either due to working in different labour activities as part of to single scheme or different ones.
Totals include those not classified by sex.
A 31 de desembre.

Last update: June 2, 2015.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Worker affiliated to the Social Security system
Person that exercises a labour activity in exchange for payment that is affiliated to the general Social Security scheme and the special scheme for mining and coal workers that are working or in similar situations to being working such as temporary incapacity, suspended by reasons of redundancy, partially unemployed, etc. Not included are workers that are fully unemployed, workers with special agreements, workers for companies covered by restructuring plans and workers receiving aid in the form of early retirement payments or in other situations that do not have an effect on contributions. The same person is accounted for as many times as they have situations in which they contribute, whether they have several labour activities in a single regime or in various.
Foreign worker affiliated to Social Security
Foreign citizen that resides in or is legally located in Spain and has obtained administrative authorisation to work, in the cases where this is a legal or regulatory requirement. This situation equates them to a Spanish worker affiliated to Social Security.

Methodological aspects

Applications and registrations of foreign workers, both self-employed or as employees, must be accompanied by documentation accrediting nationality, and other than the case of workers to whom EU regulations are applicable, the corresponding work permit or a document accrediting that they are exempted from the obligation to have one, as well as the details and documents required of Spanish workers.

Foreigners that require administrative authorisation prior to any activity in Spain and that do not possess this authorisation are not included in the Social Security System, notwithstanding that they may be considered included for the purposes of obtaining certain benefits in accordance with the stipulations of the law.

The number of affiliates does not necessarily correspond to that of workers: the same person is accounted for as many times as they have obligations to make contributions.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".