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Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure

Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure 2010
Catalonia Spain
Amount % Amount % % Cat./Spa.
Total income 43,889,703 100.0 267,145,887 100.0 16.4
Social contributions 26,331,920 60.0 147,509,889 55.2 17.9
By employers 20,409,890 46.5 114,709,205 42.9 17.8
By protected persons 5,922,031 13.5 32,800,684 12.3 18.1
Contributions by public administrations 16,659,236 38.0 115,687,131 43.3 14.4
Central administration 3,258,124 7.4 36,841,479 13.8 8.8
Autonomous and local administration 13,401,112 30.5 78,514,512 29.4 17.1
Other income 898,546 2.0 3,948,867 1.5 22.8
Total expenditure 43,554,127 100.0 266,224,237 100.0 16.4
Social protection benefits 42,963,755 98.6 261,066,626 98.1 16.5
Without control of resources 37,531,334 86.2 222,657,439 83.6 16.9
Financial benefits 25,956,639 59.6 148,415,345 55.7 17.5
Benefits in kind 11,574,695 26.6 74,258,055 27.9 15.6
With control of resources 5,432,422 12.5 38,409,187 14.4 14.1
Financial benefits 3,019,724 6.9 23,325,770 8.8 12.9
Benefits in kind 2,412,698 5.5 15,083,416 5.7 16.0
Administrative costs 541,875 1.2 5,065,837 1.9 10.7
Other costs 48,497 0.1 91,773 0.0 52.8
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 "..".