Definition: Social protection

Category: ESSPROS Manual

Social protection encompasses 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.

The list of risks or needs that may give rise to social protection is fixed by convention as follows:

1.Sickness/Health care 
2 Disability 
3. Old age 
4. Survivors 
5. Family/children 
6. Unemployment 
7. Housing 
8. Social exclusion not elsewhere classified.

This definition is identical in versions 2008 and 2011 of the Manual http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-RA-11-014-EN.pdf http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-RA-07-027-EN.pdf