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Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure

Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure 2008
Catalonia Spain
Amount % Amount % % Cat./Spa.
Total income 40,938,585 100.0 250,812,656 100.0 16.3
Social contributions 28,196,546 68.9 155,603,685 62.0 18.1
By employers 21,964,038 53.7 122,177,532 48.7 18.0
By protected persons 6,232,508 15.2 33,426,153 13.3 18.6
Contributions by public administrations 11,845,478 28.9 91,912,615 36.6 12.9
Central administration (1) -290,311 -0.7 17,962,149 7.2 -1.6
Autonomous and local administration 12,135,788 29.6 73,950,466 29.5 16.4
Other income 896,562 2.2 3,296,356 1.3 27.2
Total expenditure 38,816,473 100.0 239,197,840 100.0 16.2
Social protection benefits 38,218,920 98.5 234,129,818 97.9 16.3
Without control of resources 34,388,140 88.6 202,825,572 84.8 17.0
Financial benefits 23,731,772 61.1 132,628,586 55.4 17.9
Benefits in kind 10,656,368 27.5 70,196,986 29.3 15.2
With control of resources 3,830,780 9.9 31,304,246 13.1 12.2
Financial benefits 1,793,896 4.6 30,807,798 12.9 5.8
Benefits in kind 2,036,885 5.2 13,357,673 5.6 15.2
Administrative costs 554,482 1.4 4,957,309 2.1 11.2
Other costs 43,070 0.1 110,713 0.0 38.9
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat. Social protection accounts.
Note: (1) Following changes to the autonomous finance system in 2002, the surplus in Catalonia for state social protection systems as a whole was made explicit by the fact that the total contribution of the State was negative.

Last update: February 11, 2015.

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 "..".