Expenditure on social protection (ESSPROS)

Data regarding expenditure on social protection by ESSPROS classification are used to characterise European Union Member States by using statistically comparable information on organisation of social protection, its current situation and development.

Statistics related to data provision for the ESSPROS core system includes data on income and expenditure flow of social protection. 

Expenditure on social protection are broken down by social allowances, administrative costs and other costs. Social benefits are classified by their function: sickness and/or health care; disability; old age; survivors; family/children; unemployment; housing; and social exclusion.

Data are obtained from Ministry of Welfare and institutions under its supervision (State Social Insurance Agency, State Employment Agency), from National Health Service, Ministry of the Interior (Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs supervised by it), Ministry of Defence, Maintenance Guarantee Fund and Ministry of Culture etc.

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Statistical database

Eurostat publish data on social protection in EU-27 in website, section : Social Protection (ESSPROS).

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Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) every year compiles and publishes information on social protection. This information is harmonized according to the ESSPROS (European System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics) methodology developed by the Eurostat. The development of ESSPROS methodology was launched in 1963, it was gradually improved, and in 1996 the manual of ESSPROS was published. In 2008 an updated ESSPROS manual with changes in ESSPROS methodology was published.

Data are classified using The European System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS): general principles and core system; classification of benefits in core system.

Administrative costs are obtained in the result of calculations.