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Social protection accounts. Social protection benefits. By functions

Social protection accounts. Social protection benefits. By functions 2012
Catalonia Spain
Amount % Amount % % Cat./Spa.
Total current expenditure 42,100,886 100.0 259,840,025 100.0 16.2
Sickness/health care 10,898,335 25.9 68,967,212 26.5 15.8
Disability 3,087,625 7.3 18,781,135 7.2 16.4
Old age 15,603,163 37.1 94,272,820 36.3 16.6
Survivors 3,761,501 8.9 24,383,144 9.4 15.4
Family/children 1,704,760 4.0 13,908,850 5.4 12.3
Unemployment 5,931,854 14.1 35,706,870 13.7 16.6
Housing 238,588 0.6 1,524,548 0.6 15.6
Total exclusion 875,061 2.1 2,295,445 0.9 38.1
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 "..".