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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 2010
Agriculture Industry Construction Services Total
Alt Camp 137 5,601 938 6,975 13,650
Alt Empordà 120 4,293 3,396 24,366 32,174
Alt Penedès 146 11,389 1,760 18,315 31,610
Alt Urgell 95 789 518 2,956 4,358
Alta Ribagorça 1 69 170 628 868
Anoia 93 8,983 2,328 13,374 24,777
Bages 228 16,284 4,128 29,599 50,239
Baix Camp 471 8,133 4,962 34,000 47,564
Baix Ebre 625 2,929 2,363 12,391 18,307
Baix Empordà 189 3,653 4,844 21,119 29,804
Baix Llobregat 122 49,006 19,363 153,496 221,986
Baix Penedès 56 3,089 1,481 11,940 16,565
Barcelonès 280 96,763 51,380 857,844 1,006,266
Berguedà 92 1,824 1,214 4,640 7,770
Cerdanya 26 180 782 3,166 4,155
Conca de Barberà 31 3,236 600 2,006 5,872
Garraf 13 3,667 2,275 17,602 23,557
Garrigues 222 1,012 521 1,718 3,473
Garrotxa 113 7,525 1,282 8,144 17,065
Gironès 309 8,891 5,904 67,462 82,565
Maresme 176 15,860 6,552 61,114 83,702
Montsià 155 4,029 1,341 7,301 12,826
Noguera 329 1,978 923 4,300 7,530
Osona 744 14,500 2,968 23,961 42,172
Pallars Jussà 80 194 387 1,986 2,646
Pallars Sobirà 6 102 281 1,077 1,465
Pla d'Urgell 184 2,744 939 5,464 9,332
Pla de l'Estany 263 3,359 1,018 4,255 8,894
Priorat 24 497 133 702 1,355
Ribera d'Ebre 90 555 640 2,485 3,770
Ripollès 29 2,421 637 4,158 7,245
Segarra 315 4,352 452 2,286 7,404
Segrià 787 6,915 6,491 60,127 74,320
Selva 253 13,084 3,754 23,900 40,992
Solsonès 175 964 558 2,001 3,697
Tarragonès 163 13,503 8,911 77,386 99,962
Terra Alta 33 492 304 806 1,634
Urgell 205 2,856 1,039 5,229 9,329
Val d'Aran 24 71 417 2,936 3,448
Vallès Occidental 209 75,206 19,304 187,390 282,108
Vallès Oriental 398 37,314 7,761 56,756 102,228
Non county 2 25 10 61 97
Catalonia 8,008 438,333 175,021 1,827,416 2,448,777
Metropolità 1,343 289,204 108,393 1,352,516 1,751,456
Comarques Gironines 1,276 43,226 20,834 153,403 218,739
Camp de Tarragona 880 34,058 17,023 133,008 184,968
Terres de l'Ebre 903 8,004 4,648 22,982 36,537
Ponent 2,043 19,856 10,365 79,123 111,387
Comarques Centrals 1,332 42,555 11,194 73,574 128,655
Alt Pirineu i Aran 231 1,405 2,554 12,750 16,939
Barcelona 2,495 331,048 119,009 1,424,011 1,876,563
Girona 1,302 43,108 21,493 156,286 222,188
Lleida 2,428 22,090 12,839 91,068 128,424
Tarragona 1,783 42,062 21,671 155,990 221,505
Source: Ministry for Business and Labour.

Last update: February 24, 2011.

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 "..".