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 Expenditures of social protection benefits per capita (€)
Characteristic Description
Name Expenditures of social protection benefits per capita (€) by Functions of social protection; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Statistics of social protection - ESSPROS
First available period 1990
Last available period 2022
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Functions of social protection
Concepts
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • SOCIAL PROTECTION EXPENDITURES:  Expenditures of social protection schemes classified by type, indicating the nature of or reason for the expenditure: social protection benefits, administration costs, transfers to other schemes and other expenditure.
  • SOCIAL PROTECTION FUNCTION:  The primary purpose for which social protection is provided to relieve households and individuals of the burden of a defined set of risks or needs, irrespective of legislative or institutional provisions.
Definition SOCIAL PROTECTION All interventions from public or private bodies intended to relieve households and individuals of the burden of a defined set of risks or needs, provided that neither a simultaneous reciprocal arrangement nor an individual arrangement is involved.
Formule Expenditures of social protection benefits/ Resident population
Measure unit (symbol) Euro (€)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 26/06/2024


information presented in 7/7/2024