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Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure

Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure 2007
Catalonia Spain
Amount % Amount % % Cat./Spa.
Total income 38,286,022 100.0 233,524,941 100.0 16.4
Social contributions 26,621,440 69.5 146,827,409 62.9 18.1
By employers 20,580,078 53.8 114,406,282 49.0 18.0
By protected persons 6,041,362 15.8 32,421,127 13.9 18.6
Contributions by public administrations 10,788,466 28.2 82,241,853 35.2 13.1
Central administration (1) -51,822 -0.1 15,826,448 6.8 -0.3
Autonomous and local administration 10,840,288 28.3 66,415,405 28.4 16.3
Other income 876,116 2.3 4,455,680 1.9 19.7
Total expenditure 34,896,231 100.0 219,323,064 100.0 15.9
Social protection benefits 34,324,254 98.4 214,166,470 97.6 16.0
Without control of resources 31,089,220 89.1 185,250,330 84.5 16.8
Financial benefits 21,451,402 61.5 121,684,057 55.5 17.6
Benefits in kind 9,637,818 27.6 63,566,273 29.0 15.2
With control of resources 3,235,034 9.3 28,916,139 13.2 11.2
Financial benefits 1,486,456 4.3 16,636,394 7.6 8.9
Benefits in kind 1,748,577 5.0 10,332,379 4.7 16.9
Administrative costs 532,329 1.5 4,797,301 2.2 11.1
Other costs 39,648 0.1 359,293 0.2 11.0
Units: Thousands of euros.
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: February 13, 2014.

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 "..".