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Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure

Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure 2014
Catalonia Spain
Amount % Amount % % Cat./Spa.
Total income 40,914,596 100.0 253,335,461 100.0 16.2
Social contributions 24,821,064 60.8 135,305,454 52.6 18.3
By employers 19,045,150 46.7 103,092,749 40.1 18.5
By protected persons 5,775,914 14.2 32,212,706 12.5 17.9
Contributions by public administrations 15,386,820 37.7 111,383,326 43.3 13.8
Central administration 4,072,775 10.0 38,738,519 15.1 10.5
Autonomous and local administration 11,314,045 27.7 72,644,807 28.2 15.6
Other income 706,712 1.7 6,646,681 2.6 10.6
Total expenditure 42,417,248 100.0 263,135,348 100.0 16.1
Social protection benefits 41,993,005 99.3 258,355,398 97.6 16.3
Without control of resources 37,306,013 88.2 222,058,483 83.9 16.8
Financial benefits 27,706,410 65.5 155,458,064 58.7 17.8
Benefits in kind 9,599,603 22.7 66,597,397 25.2 14.4
With control of resources 4,686,992 11.1 36,296,915 13.7 12.9
Financial benefits 2,610,549 6.2 23,585,194 8.9 11.1
Benefits in kind 2,076,443 4.9 12,711,721 4.8 16.3
Administrative costs 387,822 0.9 4,755,455 1.8 8.2
Other costs 36,421 0.1 24,495 0.0 148.7
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 "..".

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