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Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure

Social protection accounts. Current income and expenditure 2011
Catalonia Spain
Amount % Amount % % Cat./Spa.
Total income 43,140,975 100.0 268,879,697 100.0 16.0
Social contributions 25,993,427 60.3 147,097,720 54.7 17.7
By employers 20,163,064 46.7 114,580,087 42.6 17.6
By protected persons 5,830,362 13.5 32,517,633 12.1 17.9
Contributions by public administrations 16,166,113 37.5 118,302,236 44.0 13.7
Central administration 3,581,268 8.3 39,864,165 14.8 9.0
Autonomous and local administration 12,584,845 29.2 78,438,071 29.2 16.0
Other income 981,435 2.3 3,479,741 1.3 28.2
Total expenditure 43,040,463 100.0 271,174,187 100.0 15.9
Social protection benefits 42,467,996 98.7 266,227,300 98.2 16.0
Without control of resources 37,000,307 86.0 223,143,320 82.3 16.6
Financial benefits 26,162,730 60.8 149,891,615 55.3 17.5
Benefits in kind 10,837,577 25.2 73,262,646 27.0 14.8
With control of resources 5,467,689 12.7 43,083,980 15.9 12.7
Financial benefits 3,100,161 7.2 27,450,251 10.1 11.3
Benefits in kind 2,367,527 5.5 15,633,730 5.8 15.1
Administrative costs 527,644 1.2 4,854,781 1.8 10.9
Other costs 44,823 0.1 92,107 0.0 48.7
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 "..".