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Registered foreign workers affiliated to Social Security. By sex and type of scheme. Provinces

Registered foreign workers affiliated to Social Security. By sex and type of scheme. Provinces Catalonia
By sex Men Women By type of scheme General and coal mining Special agriculture Special sea Special domestic Special self-employed Total
2021 310,972 223,816 403,092 17,089 668 29,114 84,830 534,793
2020 288,620 209,108 373,596 16,195 649 28,837 78,451 497,729
2019 295,072 216,044 385,860 17,582 689 30,636 76,350 511,117
2018 272,497 198,257 346,933 17,060 706 32,424 73,632 470,755
2017 250,591 183,278 313,342 17,725 766 34,182 67,856 433,870
2016 228,155 169,500 282,044 16,498 746 36,187 62,183 397,658
2015 209,490 158,984 258,037 15,288 720 37,484 56,947 368,476
Source: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.
Notes:
Annual average.
Must consider that one single person can be accounted for as many times as social security payments require, either due to working in different labour activities as part of to single scheme or different ones.
Employees of the Agricultural Special System and the Domestic Special System are not included.
Totals include those not classified by sex.

Last update: January 17, 2023.

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.
Foreign worker affiliated to Social Security
Foreign citizen that resides in or is legally located in Spain and has obtained administrative authorisation to work, in the cases where this is a legal or regulatory requirement. This situation equates them to a Spanish worker affiliated to Social Security.

Methodological aspects

Applications and registrations of foreign workers, both self-employed or as employees, must be accompanied by documentation accrediting nationality, and other than the case of workers to whom EU regulations are applicable, the corresponding work permit or a document accrediting that they are exempted from the obligation to have one, as well as the details and documents required of Spanish workers.

Foreigners that require administrative authorisation prior to any activity in Spain and that do not possess this authorisation are not included in the Social Security System, notwithstanding that they may be considered included for the purposes of obtaining certain benefits in accordance with the stipulations of the law.

The number of affiliates does not necessarily correspond to that of workers: the same person is accounted for as many times as they have obligations to make 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 "..".