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Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure

Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure 2012
Catalonia Spain
Amount % Amount % % Cat./Spa.
Total income 41,054,850 100.0 255,753,734 100.0 16.1
Social contributions 24,873,859 60.6 139,593,833 54.6 17.8
By employers 19,195,277 46.8 108,030,102 42.2 17.8
By protected persons 5,678,582 13.8 31,563,731 12.3 18.0
Contributions by public administrations 15,316,896 37.3 112,833,941 44.1 13.6
Central administration 4,140,686 10.1 37,943,526 14.8 10.9
Autonomous and local administration 11,176,210 27.2 74,363,857 29.1 15.0
Other income 864,095 2.1 3,325,959 1.3 26.0
Total expenditure 42,532,029 100.0 264,874,702 100.0 16.1
Social protection benefits 42,100,886 99.0 259,840,025 98.1 16.2
Without control of resources 36,806,980 86.5 221,055,936 83.5 16.7
Financial benefits 26,644,838 62.6 152,329,646 57.5 17.5
Benefits in kind 10,162,141 23.9 68,734,222 25.9 14.8
With control of resources 5,293,906 12.4 38,784,089 14.6 13.6
Financial benefits 3,044,653 7.2 24,872,677 9.4 12.2
Benefits in kind 2,249,253 5.3 13,911,412 5.3 16.2
Administrative costs 398,142 0.9 4,946,840 1.9 8.0
Other costs 33,001 0.1 87,838 0.0 37.6
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat. Social protection accounts; Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.

Last update: December 22, 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 "..".