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Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure

Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure 2006
Catalonia Spain
Amount % Amount % % Cat./Spa.
Total income 35,531.42 100.0 217,378.34 100.0 16.3
Social contributions 25,300.50 71.2 137,584.30 63.3 18.4
By employers 19,070.07 53.7 107,108.37 49.3 17.8
By protected persons 6,230.44 17.5 30,475.94 14.0 20.4
Contributions by public administrations 9,453.63 26.6 75,174.90 34.6 12.6
Central administration -380.95 -1.1 14,191.49 6.5 -2.7
Autonomous and local administration 9,834.58 27.7 60,983.40 28.1 16.1
Other income 777.29 2.2 4,619.14 2.1 16.8
Total expenditure 32,636.67 100.0 202,037.68 100.0 16.2
Social protection benefits 32,086.61 98.3 196,942.26 97.5 16.3
Without control of resources 29,267.26 89.7 170,049.92 84.2 17.2
Financial benefits 20,398.95 62.5 110,850.02 54.9 18.4
Benefits in kind 8,868.30 27.2 59,199.90 29.3 15.0
With control of resources 2,819.36 8.6 26,892.34 13.3 10.5
Financial benefits 1,347.08 4.1 15,545.36 7.7 8.7
Benefits in kind 1,472.27 4.5 11,346.98 5.6 13.0
Administrative costs 513.67 1.6 4,617.65 2.3 11.1
Other costs 36.38 0.1 477.77 0.2 7.6
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat. Social protection accounts.

Last update: December 13, 2012.

Methodological note

Methodological aspects

These accounts show the expenditures and financing of social protection in Catalonia: how the resources are distributed and the flows of financing that allow them to work.

The data are presented so that the results are comparable with other countries and regions, and the methodology used is from Eurostat's European System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics (SEEPROS). This methodology is based on a very broad concept of social protection, which includes both the activity of both public and private entities, as long as it is conducted with the objective of protecting a third party and that there is no equivalent and simultaneous balancing entry for the protected person.

ESSPROS methodology classifies social benefits in accordance with the following protective functions:

  • sickness and health
  • disability
  • old age
  • survivors
  • family and children
  • housing
  • unemployment
  • social exclusion

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 "..".