• Data reference period
• Geographic localization (Portugal)
• Type of expenditures

• SOCIAL PROTECTION:  All intervention from public or private bodies intended to relieve households and individuals of the burden of a defined set of risks or needs, provided that there neither a simultaneous reciprocal nor an individual arrangement is involved.
• 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.

(Expenditures of social protection/ GDPmp Base 2016)*100