This dataset provides a list of the requests for a transport journey log for the export of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and horses in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 enforced in England by the Welfare of Animals (Transport) (England) Order 2006. The dataset contains the date the journey log application was received and the planned export date, the destination country of the export consignment, the species of animal being exported and if the species of animal are weaned or unweaned, the purpose of the animals being exported and if the export was cancelled. This dataset covers journey logs issued where the premises of origin of the export consignment was in England only. Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 does not provide a definition of 'unweaned' animals but the EU Commission have provided guidance to EU Member States to the effect that calves under the age of 60 days and lambs under the age of six weeks are considered to be unweaned. Attribution statement:

This dataset provides a list of the requests for a transport journey log for the export of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and horses in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 enforced in England by the Welfare of Animals (Transport) (England) Order 2006. The dataset contains the date the journey log application was received and the planned export date, the destination country of the export consignment, the species of animal being exported and if the species of animal are weaned or unweaned, the purpose of the animals being exported and if the export was cancelled. This dataset covers journey logs issued where the premises of origin of the export consignment was in England only. Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 does not provide a definition of 'unweaned' animals but the EU Commission have provided guidance to EU Member States to the effect that calves under the age of 60 days and lambs under the age of six weeks are considered to be unweaned.

The data present the selection of Census topics and breakdowns of the 2021 EU population and housing census, as defined by Regulation (EC) 763/2008 and its three implementing regulations for the 2021 round of censuses: Regulation (EU) 2017/543; Regulation (EU) 2017/712 and Regulation (EU) 2017/881.

The 2021 data presented in the tables for European Union Member States (27) and EFTA countries (4) are taken from a broader collection of data composed of 119 hypercubes (organized into 41 groups) mandated by Annex I to the Regulation (EU) 2017/712. These hypercubes provide a highly detailed dataset, aligning with the key census features of individual enumeration, simultaneity, universality, availability of small-area data, and defined periodicity. This structure allows detailed cross-tabulation of demographic, socioeconomic, and housing characteristics across various geographic levels (National, NUTS 1, NUTS 2 and NUTS 3).

The census data presented here adhere to the same definitions, technical specifications, and breakdowns as the detailed hypercubes, which can be accessed via the Eurostat Census Hub.

The tables presented here provide key breakdowns and cross-tabulations.

The data tables are structured based on a 2021 Census Hub data topic design, where each table represents a multidimensional breakdown of census data.

The 2021 Census data offer a statistical overview of population, households, families, and dwellings. Datasets are organized around three core areas:

1.Population Characteristics:

Comprehensive demographic details, including sex, age, marital status, and family structures.

Socioeconomic indicators such as education, employment, occupation, and activity status.

Migration-related characteristics, covering citizenship, country of birth, year of arrival, and previous residence. Geographical breakdowns are offered at NUTS 2 in 23 tables and NUTS 3 levels in 12 tables.

2.Families and Households:

Household composition and family structures.

Features family nucleus size, tenure status, and household composition and size.

These tables are primarily provided for NUTS 3 geographical regions in the 3 tables.

3.Dwellings:

Dwelling characteristics, including ownership status, building types, occupancy, and construction periods among others.

Geographical detail, with data split between NUTS 2 in one table and NUTS 3 in 4 tables.

The statistical data are supplemented by national metadata files that facilitate interpretation of the numerical data, including country-specific definitions, information on the data sources and on methodological issues.

The supplementary table on accrued-to-date pension entitlements in social insurance (pensions in National Accounts) is compiled in accordance with the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) and is transmitted by EU Member States and EFTA countries (except Liechtenstein) following the ESA2010 transmission programme (Table 29) established by the Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union, annexes A and B respectively).

By introducing this table, ESA 2010 added enhanced reporting on pensions, covering both entitlements of pension schemes recorded in the core national accounts, and unfunded "pay-as-you-go" pension schemes managed by general government. These latter entitlements are excluded from the core national accounts and are considered as contingent liabilities. However, full coverage of all pension schemes in one table provides a complete overview of organisation of pension social insurance in a given country and enhances cross-country analysis of pension entitlements of households.

At the same time, it should be stressed that accrued-to-date pension entitlements in social insurance are not a measure of the sustainability of public finances and not part of government debt.

The European reporting system on age-related expenditure is multifaceted. National accountants focus in this dataset on already earned (accrued-to-date) pension entitlements of current persons employed and current pensioners, whereas the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) is analysing the impact of ageing on European societies from a wider angle. The EPC'S Ageing Report includes estimates for pension entitlements (and related contributions) being accrued in the future.

Data are presented by means of two tables:

1. "Accrued-to-date pension entitlements in social insurance" (nasa_10_pens1)

The table gives an overview of accumulation of pension entitlements by all types of social insurance pension schemes (defined contribution vs. defined benefit schemes, private vs. general government schemes, core accounts schemes vs. social security schemes) in a given period due to pension contributions, payment of pension benefits and other changes.

2. "Sensitivity analysis of accrued-to-date pension entitlements in general government pension schemes outside of core national accounts" (nasa_10_pens2)

The data on unfunded general government pension schemes outside of core national accounts are based on actuarial calculations. Thus, the results for pension entitlements depend to a large extent on the underlying assumptions. To ensure a consistent approach and cross-country data comparability, actuarial assumptions for these schemes in ESA 2010 Table 29 are aligned with those proposed by the EPC Ageing Working group (AWG), including the discount rate to calculate present value of pension entitlements. Actuarial assumptions are regularly reviewed by the AWG in the framework of 3-yearly Ageing reports.

Analysis shows that the discount rate is the most important parameter that affects on the resulting value of pension entitlements. Therefore, table 2 shows how the outcome of actuarial calculations varies based on a different choice of discount rate. Three scenarios are presented as follows under SECTOR dimension (unless otherwise stated in the specific country’s factsheet):

• S13_BC in years up to 2015– base case scenario with current discount rate 5% in nominal terms (3% in real terms).
• S13_BC in years after 2015 (including 2018 and 2021) – base case scenario with current discount rate 4% in nominal terms (2% in real terms), with differentiations for Poland, Romania (4.5%) and Hungary (5%).
• S13_SC1 –scenario with discount rate 1 percentage point less than in base case.
• S13_SC3 –scenario with discount rate 1 percentage point higher than in base case.

Data, as far as they are available, are expressed in national currency and millions of euro in current prices.

In line with ESA2010 Transmission programme requirements, annual data series start from 2015 and are to be transmitted on 3-yearly basis. Countries may transmit longer time series or transmit data annually on voluntary basis.

In Eurostat database, ESSPROS data on expenditure and receipts, data on net social protection benefits, data on Pension beneficiaries and data on Unemployment benefits recipients for the total of schemes are currently disseminated. The qualitative information is available in the dedicated "Social protection" section of the Eurostat website. ESSPROS data, quality reports and the qualitative information are released annually.

There are three main categories of data sources:

• administrative data
• national accounts and other estimates
• surveys/census.

Most of the countries report administrative data and register-based data as their main data sources.

Data on expenditure and receipts correspond to two collections "EXPEND" (Social protection expenditure) and "RECEIPTS" (Social protection receipts).

The collection "EXPEND" is structured in twelve tables:

1. spr_exp_type – The data include the expenditure broken down by social benefits, administration costs and other expenditure.
2. spr_exp_func – The data include the expenditure on social benefits classified by functions of social protection. Early estimates for social protection expenditure broken down by function are also included in this table.
3. spr_exp_pens – The data include the social benefits relating to pensions (old age, disability, survivors and unemployment pensions). In addition, the data are split between means-tested and non-means-tested benefits.
4. spr_exp_ftm – The data include expenditure on social benefits by function, type of benefits and means-testing.
5. spr_exp_fsi – The data include expenditure on the sickness and healthcare function by type of benefit and means-testing.
6. spr_exp_fdi – The data include the expenditure on disability function by type of benefit and means-testing.
7. spr_exp_fol – The data include the expenditure on old age function by type of benefit and means-testing.
8. spr_exp_fsu – The data include expenditure on survivors’ function by type of benefit and means-testing.
9. spr_exp_ffa – The data include expenditure on family/children function by type of benefit and means-testing.
10. spr_exp_fun – The data include expenditure on unemployment function by type of benefit and means-testing.
11. spr_exp_fho – The data include expenditure on housing function by type of benefit.
12. spr_exp_fex – The data include expenditure on social exclusion n.e.c function by type of benefit and means-testing.

Data on expenditure are made available in the following units: million euro, million euro at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), euro per inhabitant, euro per inhabitant at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), million units of national currency, million units of national currency at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), million pps, million pps per inhabitant, percentage of GDP. Depending on the table, the data can also be expressed as percentage of expenditure, percentage of total benefits or percentage of a given function.

Whenever applied, the split of social protection benefits by function encompasses eight functions:

• Sickness /Health care
• Disability
• Old age
• Survivors
• Family/children
• Unemployment
• Housing
• Social exclusion not elsewhere classified as well as the total of social benefits.

The detailed classification of benefits by type includes cash benefits and benefits in kind.

The collection "RECEIPTS" includes the following four tables:

1. spr_rec_sumt- The data include the receipts of social protection broken down by the different types of receipts - social contributions, general government contributions and other receipts.
2. spr_rec_scon – The data include social contributions by type of contributors: employer, protected persons, employees, self-employed, pensioners and other protected persons.
3. spr_rec_sums – The data include social contributions by the different sectors of origin: corporations, central government, state and local government, households, non-profit institutions, rest of the world.
4. spr_rec_suts – The data include social protection receipts by type and institutional sector.

Data on receipts are made available in the following units: million euro, million euro at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), euro per inhabitant, euro per inhabitant at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), million units of national currency, million units of national currency at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), million pps, million pps pr inhabitant, percentage of GDP, percentage of total receipt.

Data on net social protection benefits correspond to the table " spr_net_ben" (Net social protection benefits) in the collection "NET".

The ESSPROS module on net social protection benefits (restricted approach) measures net expenditure by collecting information on the average rates of taxes and social contributions paid by recipients of each cash benefit reported in the Core system. These rates are then applied to the gross expenditure on each benefit to obtain a net value as follows:

Net social benefits = Gross social benefits * (1 – AITR – AISCR)

where AITR / AISCR are the Average itemized tax / social contribution rates.

The net social protection benefits are complemented by the value of “Fiscal benefits” provided in the form of tax breaks that would be defined as social protection benefits, if they were provided in cash. Tax breaks promoting the provision of social protection or promoting private insurance plans are excluded. Exceptionally, if some fiscal benefits cannot be taken into account in the assessment of the actual taxes and social contributions paid on social benefits (this happens for few countries), then the value of net benefits should be complemented by the residual value of the fiscal benefit. In this case the formula above becomes:

Net social benefits = Gross social benefits * (1 – AITR – AISCR) + Residual fiscal benefits

In ESSPROS, fiscal benefits are defined as social protection provided in the form of tax breaks that would be defined as social protection benefits if they were provided in cash, excluding tax breaks promoting the provision of social protection or promoting private insurance plans.

According to a 2015 decision of the Working Group on Social Protection Statistics, fiscal benefits in the form of payable tax credits should be included in full (both cash component plus fiscal component) in the ESSPROS Core System while all other forms of fiscal benefit are excluded from the Core System and dealt with in the NET modules (the existing restricted approach module and the planned enlarged approach modules).

More information is available in the Annex I "Payable tax credits".

Data on pension beneficiaries correspond to the collection "PENS" that contains the table "spr_pns_ben" (Pension Beneficiaries at 31 December of each year).

The data include the number of recipients of one or more periodic cash benefits under a social protection scheme falling within seven pension categories grouped into four basic functions.

The seven categories of pensions in this module are:

• Disability pension;
• Early retirement benefit due to reduced capacity to work;
• Old-age pension;
• Anticipated old-age pension;
• Partial pension;
• Survivor's pension;
• Early retirement benefit due to labour market reasons.

The four functions of the module are:

• Disability (grouping the first two categories of pensions above);
• Old age (grouping the next three);
• Survivors (the sixth category);
• Unemployment (the last category).

The data, available by gender for the total of schemes, are expressed in "units".

ESSPROS data on pension beneficiaries may represent aggregates of multiple types of pensions, granted for various purposes, under different conditions, and to different groups with different levels of entitlement. It is essential, therefore, that users understand exactly what the data show and can interpret the figures correctly. In view of this, please see the publication "Social protection statistics - pension expenditure and pension beneficiaries" and more specifically the section "interpretation of data".

Data on Unemployment benefits recipients correspond to the collection “UBR” that contains the table “spr_ubr_ben”.

The data include the number of recipients of one or more periodic cash benefits as classified