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Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure

Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure 2013
Catalonia Spain
Amount % Amount % % Cat./Spa.
Total income 40,802,202 100.0 257,290,253 100.0 15.9
Social contributions 24,534,316 60.1 135,341,487 52.6 18.1
By employers 18,977,474 46.5 104,111,904 40.5 18.2
By protected persons 5,556,841 13.6 31,229,583 12.1 17.8
Contributions by public administrations 15,542,982 38.1 115,110,187 44.7 13.5
Central administration 4,802,076 11.8 43,260,031 16.8 11.1
Autonomous and local administration 10,740,906 26.3 71,850,156 27.9 14.9
Other income 724,904 1.8 6,838,579 2.7 10.6
Total expenditure 42,275,616 100.0 264,611,636 100.0 16.0
Social protection benefits 41,852,110 99.0 259,561,553 98.1 16.1
Without control of resources 36,787,256 87.0 222,065,448 83.9 16.6
Financial benefits 27,289,220 64.6 155,742,735 58.9 17.5
Benefits in kind 9,498,036 22.5 66,319,866 25.1 14.3
With control of resources 5,064,854 12.0 37,496,105 14.2 13.5
Financial benefits 2,958,844 7.0 24,600,011 9.3 12.0
Benefits in kind 2,106,010 5.0 12,896,095 4.9 16.3
Administrative costs 386,426 0.9 5,029,824 1.9 7.7
Other costs 37,081 0.1 20,258 0.0 183.0
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 "..".