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Expenditures on social protection. Current prices Catalonia
2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Total expenditure (thousands of euros)
Total 42,417,248 42,503,782 42,941,806 43,673,058 44,209,580 43,523,017
Without unemployment 37,721,289 36,693,744 36,588,390 36,939,704 37,200,532 35,988,824
Total expenditure (variation rate)
Total 99.8 99.0 98.3 98.8 101.6 112.1
Without unemployment 102.8 100.3 99.0 99.3 103.4 106.8
Total expenditure (euros per inhabitant)
Total 5,699 5,639 5,668 5,756 5,848 5,844
Without unemployment 5,068 4,859 4,820 4,859 4,911 4,832
Expenditure per inhabitant (variation rate)
Total 101.0 99.5 98.5 98.4 100.1 111.1
Without unemployment 104.3 100.8 99.2 98.9 101.6 105.8
Source: Idescat. Social protection accounts.
Expenditures on social protection. Constant prices Catalonia
2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Total expenditure. Base 2013 (thousands of euros)
Total 42,474,799 42,275,617 41,809,887 41,124,081 40,303,173 39,470,544
Without unemployment 37,772,468 36,675,340 35,978,749 35,192,915 34,267,466 32,637,868
Total expenditure (Variation rate)
Total 100.5 101.1 101.7 102.0 102.1 110.4
Without unemployment 103.0 101.9 102.2 102.7 105.0 105.1
Total expenditure. Base 2013 (euros per inhabitant)
Total 5,740 5,679 5,577 5,480 5,390 5,300
Without unemployment 5,105 4,927 4,799 4,690 4,583 4,383
Expenditure per inhabitant (variation rate)
Total 101.1 101.8 101.8 101.7 101.7 109.4
Without unemployment 103.6 102.7 102.3 102.3 104.6 104.1
Source: Idescat. Social protection accounts.
Expenditures on social protection. Indicators concerning about the economic macro magnitude Catalonia
% over GDP Total Without unemployment % over Spain expenditure Total Without unemployment
2014 21.5 19.1 16.1 16.0
2013 21.4 18.6 16.0 15.9
2012 21.5 18.5 16.1 16.0
2011 21.4 18.3 15.9 15.8
2010 21.4 18.2 16.4 16.0
2009 21.5 17.8 16.5 15.9
Source: Idescat. Social protection accounts.
Financing and management in charge of the Generalitat. Current prices Catalonia
Financing in charge of the Generalitat Thousands of euros Variation rate Total amount managed by the Generalitat Thousands of euros Variation rate
2014 10,873,441 106.0 11,470,689 103.7
2013 10,255,371 95.8 11,066,308 92.0
2012 10,703,309 88.1 12,028,577 92.8
2011 12,151,848 93.5 12,967,866 95.0
2010 12,990,533 100.2 13,649,378 101.8
2009 12,960,406 110.7 13,412,355 112.3
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat. Social protection accounts.
Financing and management in charge of the Generalitat. Constant prices Catalonia
Financing in charge of the Generalitat Thousands of euros.Base 2013 Variation rate Total amount managed by the Generalitat Thousands of euros. Base 2013 Variation rate
2014 10,873,441 106.0 11,470,689 103.7
2013 10,255,371 97.5 11,066,422 93.6
2012 10,521,580 90.6 11,823,740 95.4
2011 11,610,785 96.6 12,390,074 98.1
2010 12,020,897 102.3 12,630,426 103.8
2009 11,753,649 109.0 12,163,516 110.6
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat. Social protection accounts.

Last update: December 22, 2016.

Methodological note

The data on social protection have been produced according to the SEEPROS methodology spearheaded by Eurostat. This methodology, which underwent a thorough reform in 1996, starts from a very broad conception of social protection, in which the actions of both public and private entities are taken into consideration, provided these are done with the aim to protect others and there is no equivalent and simultaneous counterpart for the person under protection.

The objective of the methodology is fundamentally to produce figures that are comparable with other countries, regardless of the variety of ways adopted by their corresponding social protection systems. Similarly, the results find comparability problems between regions and states due to the incidence of interregional solidarity factors that also have an impact on the social protection system and imply a significant transfer of resources to the Spanish social protection system.

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