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ASS122C - Weight of expenditure within each function of social bebefit, in total expenditure of social benefits and in gross domestic product |
Definition |
Social protection function is defined in terms of final purpose for social protection, namely to protect persons and families/ households against major social risk identified. Provisions of social protection are divided into eight functions of social protection, according to those eight major social risks identified by ESSPROS. Social protection functions are: - sickness/health care; - disability; - old age; - survivor; - family/children; - unemployment; - housing; - social exclusion / non-classified elsewhere). Expenditure for social protection include: - expenditure for social protection benefits; - administrative costs; - other types of expenditure (for instance, bank interests related to social funds); Expenditure for social protection benefits represent the value of social protection resources allocated to the beneficiaries in cash or in kind (goods and/or services). Administrative costs represent the expenditure for the organization and administration of social protection schemes. Means - tested benefits are conditioned provisions, respectively if the level of the beneficiary income is under a preset threshold. Non-means tested benefits are unconditioned provisions by the level of the beneficiary income. |
Periodicity |
Annual |
Data sources |
Social protection statistics - ESSPROS details |
Methodology |
Metadata and quality report |
Last update |
AUG 09, 2024 |
Observations |
The data are available starting with 2000. |
Responsible person |
Daniela Grecu; e-mail:daniela.grecu@insse.ro;int 2280 |
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