Glossary: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 there is neither a simultaneous reciprocal nor an individual arrangement involved. In ESSPROS, the list of risks or needs (functions) that may give rise to social protection is, by convention, as follows:
- Sickness/Health care
- Disability
- Old age
- Survivors
- Family/children
- Unemployment
- Housing
- Social exclusion not elsewhere classified.
Further information
Regulation (EC) No 458/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 April 2007 on the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS)
Regulation (EC) No10/2008 of 8 January 2008 implementing Regulation (EC) No 458/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS)