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Affiliations to Social Security General Regime. By sectors. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Workers affiliated to Social Security (1) (2). By sectors. Counties, areas and provinces 2008
Agriculture Industry Construction Services Total
Alt Camp 167 6,730 1,282 7,280 15,459
Alt Empordà 128 4,531 4,873 26,611 36,144
Alt Penedès 239 13,138 2,687 18,410 34,473
Alt Urgell 117 841 714 3,075 4,747
Alta Ribagorça 0 32 242 697 971
Anoia 152 11,369 3,156 13,959 28,636
Bages 254 20,954 5,582 29,164 55,953
Baix Camp 649 8,966 8,142 35,725 53,481
Baix Ebre 779 3,492 3,563 12,488 20,321
Baix Empordà 462 4,339 6,916 22,681 34,398
Baix Llobregat 536 59,646 25,151 159,492 244,825
Baix Penedès 148 3,835 2,806 12,741 19,529
Barcelonès 2,568 119,192 64,497 896,475 1,082,732
Berguedà 127 2,168 1,682 4,764 8,740
Cerdanya 80 190 1,221 3,217 4,707
Conca de Barberà 53 3,755 714 2,064 6,585
Garraf 80 4,539 4,096 18,928 27,643
Garrigues 218 1,088 712 1,688 3,706
Garrotxa 176 8,351 1,654 8,384 18,565
Gironès 503 10,451 7,872 70,725 89,550
Maresme 589 19,013 10,311 63,564 93,476
Montsià 251 4,721 2,523 7,875 15,370
Noguera 317 2,383 1,320 4,269 8,288
Osona 812 16,845 4,324 25,362 47,343
Pallars Jussà 82 200 584 1,950 2,816
Pallars Sobirà 6 110 437 1,042 1,595
Pla d'Urgell 212 3,139 1,301 5,952 10,603
Pla de l'Estany 293 3,759 1,249 4,184 9,485
Priorat 20 549 198 679 1,446
Ribera d'Ebre 108 850 759 2,464 4,181
Ripollès 63 2,894 912 4,061 7,930
Segarra 308 4,533 635 2,090 7,565
Segrià 1,062 7,878 9,132 61,555 79,627
Selva 306 14,824 5,443 25,681 46,253
Solsonès 206 1,366 795 1,968 4,334
Tarragonès 322 13,657 12,294 82,066 108,338
Terra Alta 38 561 458 726 1,781
Urgell 252 3,003 1,354 5,576 10,184
Val d'Aran 1 86 678 2,736 3,500
Vallès Occidental 821 92,230 27,363 198,461 318,875
Vallès Oriental 555 43,821 10,945 61,326 116,648
Non county 1 9 50 191 251
Catalonia 14,052 524,034 240,621 1,912,344 2,691,050
Metropolità 5,386 351,579 145,050 1,416,657 1,918,671
Comarques Gironines 1,930 49,149 28,919 162,328 242,325
Camp de Tarragona 1,357 37,491 25,435 140,554 204,837
Terres de l'Ebre 1,175 9,623 7,302 23,552 41,653
Ponent 2,367 22,024 14,452 81,129 119,972
Comarques Centrals 1,551 52,701 15,538 75,217 145,006
Alt Pirineu i Aran 286 1,458 3,875 12,716 18,335
Barcelona 6,721 403,227 159,768 1,489,923 2,059,639
Girona 2,012 48,950 29,973 165,273 246,207
Lleida 2,787 24,741 18,113 92,994 138,634
Tarragona 2,532 47,116 32,768 164,154 246,569
Source: Departament de Treball. Servei d'Estudis i Estadístiques.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Worker affiliated to the Social Security system
Person that exercises a labour activity in exchange for payment that is affiliated to the general Social Security scheme and the special scheme for mining and coal workers that are working or in similar situations to being working such as temporary incapacity, suspended by reasons of redundancy, partially unemployed, etc. Not included are workers that are fully unemployed, workers with special agreements, workers for companies covered by restructuring plans and workers receiving aid in the form of early retirement payments or in other situations that do not have an effect on contributions. The same person is accounted for as many times as they have situations in which they contribute, whether they have several labour activities in a single regime or in various.

Methodological aspects

Affiliation to the Social Security System is compulsory for all people in the Social Security's field of application and unique for the lifetime of the worker and for the entire System. That is to say, a person who is working signs up when they begin their working life and registers in one of the System's schemes; the affiliation is done only once, notwithstanding the various periods when they are working or not working during their working life. Affiliations to the various Social Security schemes correspond to situations which give rise to the obligation to contribute; that is, one person is counted as many times as their situations, either on the same or different schemes.

Affiliations of workers affiliated with the general Social Security scheme and the special scheme for coal miners are published on 31 December, based on the Location of Affiliates' Contribution Account. The information comes from the statistical treatment of the affiliation file to the different Social Security schemes of the General Treasury of Social Security carried out by the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

In the general scheme and the special scheme for coal miners, workers are grouped into contribution accounts. These accounts consist of a set of workers employed by others who carry out their work activity in one or various work centres of the same company, in the same province and, in general, carry out a similar main activity and have homogeneous characteristics with regard to their Social Security contributions.

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 "..".