Expenditure on social assistance 2014 Ari Virtanen

Social assistance expenditure (at 2014 prices), number of recipient households 1 and annual unemployment average 2 in the whole country, 1990– Estimate: double entries (8.6%) have been removed from the number of recipient households based on a national comparison of the annual statistics and the statistics on expenditure in Source: Labour Force Survey 2014, Statistics Finland Expenditure on social assistance 2014 / Ari Virtanen2

Expenditure on social assistance in real (2014) prices per household by region Expenditure on social assistance 2014 / Ari Virtanen3

Expenditure on social assistance and households receiving social assistance by region Expenditure on social assistance 2014 / Ari Virtanen4

The expenditure on social assistance remained almost the same in 2014 In 2014 gross expenditure on social assistance totalled EUR million. Social assistance expenditure increased by 1.2 per cent in current prices and by 0.1 per cent in real prices. Social assistance expenditure in current prices increased the most in Ostrobothnia (5.9%), Åland (5.8%), Pirkanmaa (5.6%), and Uusimaa (4.4%). Expenditure decreased in North Karelia (-16.8%), Pohjois-Savo (-6.5%), Lapland (- 6.3%), and Central Finland (-4.4%). Per-capita expenditure on social assistance was on average €136; it was the highest in Uusimaa (€203 per capita) and the lowest in Åland (€53 per capita), Central Ostrobothnia (€61 per capita) and Satakunta (€78 per capita). In 2014, the number of households receiving social assistance increased by an estimated 3.1 per cent on Based on aggregate data by municipality, the number of households receiving social assistance in the whole country was estimated at around Social assistance recipiency is closely related to unemployment. Reported unemployment increased from 8.2 per cent in 2012 to 8.7 per cent in There were on average unemployed people in Expenditure on social assistance 2014 / Ari Virtanen5