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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits and coverage rates. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2006
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 141,160 17,837 6,974 18,854 184,825 1,330,432 13.9
Contributory benefits 105,172 12,709 4,987 13,583 136,451 720,384 18.9
Contributory 105,127 12,673 4,938 13,495 136,232 715,866 19.0
Temporary agricultural workers 45 36 50 88 219 4,518 4.8
Financial welfare benefits 34,506 5,016 1,938 5,071 46,532 558,702 8.3
Subsidy 34,506 5,016 1,938 5,071 46,532 353,907 13.1
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 184,863 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 19,932 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 1,482 112 48 200 1,842 51,346 3.6
Coverage rates SILE (1)
Gross (2) .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 72.6 z Category not applicable
Units: Annual averages.
Source: Instituto Nacional de Empleo.
Notes:
(1) These rates can be higher than 100% because some collectives not included for registered unemployment can access benefits.
(2) The gross coverage rate is obtained by dividing the total for beneficiaries of contributory benefits (for total unemployment), plus the beneficiaries of financial welfare benefits, by the total registered unemployment.
The agricultural subsidy is only applicable to the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Andalucía.
(z) Category not applicable.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: July 22, 2015.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Beneficiaries of unemployment benefit
Worker in a legal situation of unemployment that at the end of the statistical period was receiving one of the following benefits: contributory benefits for unemployment, financial welfare benefits or active income for labour insertion.
Contributory benefits for unemployment
Benefits received by people that have been making contributions for a minimum of twelve months of the six years prior to the unemployed situation. The duration of the benefit is a maximum of a third of the period of contributions, the limit being two years.
Financial benefit
Right to monetary aid corresponding to the beneficiary when the conditions required for its acquisition are met.
Active income for labour insertion
Specific financial benefit for unemployed persons with special financial needs and difficulties finding employment that acquire the commitment to undertake activities of benefit to their labour insertion (Royal Decree 1369/2006, of November 24).

Methodological aspects

Unemployment benefits are managed by the SEPE (State Public Employment Service).

The information refers to the benefits that provide protection against unemployment related to the contributory and welfare areas, active inclusion income and the employment activation programme. To access the benefits it is necessary to have paid the prior contributions to the Social Security for this contingency and to meet the requirements required in each case.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.