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Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure as a percentage of GDP

Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure as a percentage of GDP Catalonia
2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007
Current income 20.8 20.7 20.7 21.5 21.6 22.9 20.4 19.4
Social contributions 12.6 12.4 12.5 12.9 13.0 13.9 14.0 13.5
By employers 9.7 9.6 9.7 10.0 10.0 10.9 10.9 10.4
By protected persons 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.1 3.1
Contributions by public administrations 7.8 7.9 7.7 8.0 8.2 8.5 5.9 5.5
Central administration (1) 2.1 2.4 2.1 1.8 1.6 1.9 -0.1 0.0
Autonomous administration 5.5 5.2 5.4 6.0 6.4 6.4 5.8 5.3
Local administration 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Other income 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4
Current expenditure 21.5 21.4 21.5 21.4 21.4 21.5 19.3 17.7
Social protection benefits 21.3 21.2 21.2 21.1 21.1 21.2 19.0 17.4
Without control of resources 18.9 18.6 18.6 18.4 18.5 18.9 17.1 15.8
Financial benefits 14.1 13.8 13.4 13.0 12.8 13.2 11.8 10.9
Benefits in kind 4.9 4.8 5.1 5.4 5.7 5.7 5.3 4.9
With control of resources 2.4 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.3 1.9 1.6
Financial benefits 1.3 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.2 0.9 0.8
Benefits in kind 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.0 0.9
Administrative costs 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Other costs 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Units: Per cent.
Source: Idescat. Social protection accounts.
Note: (1) Following changes to the autonomous finance system in 2002, the surplus in Catalonia for state social protection systems as a whole was made explicit by the fact that the total contribution of the State was negative.

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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