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Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure

Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure 2009
Catalonia Spain
Amount % Amount % % Cat./Spa.
Total income 46,287,627 100.0 273,459,247 100.0 15.0
Social contributions 28,117,059 68.7 152,181,548 55.7 18.5
By employers 22,079,588 53.9 119,446,513 43.7 18.5
By protected persons 6,037,471 14.7 32,735,036 12.0 18.4
Contributions by public administrations 17,236,424 42.1 117,981,343 43.1 14.6
Central administration (1) 3,811,884 9.3 35,906,513 13.1 10.6
Autonomous and local administration 13,424,540 32.8 79,802,697 29.2 16.8
Other income 934,143 2.3 3,296,356 1.2 28.3
Total expenditure 43,523,017 100.0 263,770,372 100.0 16.5
Social protection benefits 42,911,387 98.6 258,474,729 98.0 16.6
Without control of resources 38,279,448 88.0 222,403,995 84.3 17.2
Financial benefits 26,721,818 61.4 148,582,396 56.3 18.0
Benefits in kind 11,557,630 26.6 73,848,874 28.0 15.7
With control of resources 4,631,939 10.6 36,070,734 13.7 12.8
Financial benefits 2,402,337 5.5 21,248,939 8.1 11.3
Benefits in kind 2,229,602 5.1 14,821,796 5.6 15.0
Administrative costs 564,947 1.3 5,197,763 2.0 10.9
Other costs 46,683 0.1 97,880 0.0 47.7
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: January 20, 2016.

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 "..".