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Social care protection

Certain members of the society are entitled to certain benefits, provided in cash, in kind or as institutional social services, on a universal basis or on the basis of need or the principle of merit. Welfare statistics takes into account the system of institutions and benefits related to illness, old age, survivors, child raising, family and children, unemployment, housing and social exclusion, as well as the sources of their maintenance.

Key figures

Social protection benefits as a percentage of GDP

Indicator description

Social protection benefits calculated according to the EU methodology as a percentage of the gross domestic product.
Source of data: Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2022

The pensions and other provisions as a percentage of average net nominal earnings

Indicator description

Average monthly amount of benefits in cash per recipient paid by the Pension Payment Directorate as a percentage of average net nominal earnings.
Source of data: Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2022

Number of active places in infant nurseries

Indicator description

Number of active places in infant nurseries (on 1 May of the reference year; infant nursery, mini infant nursery, workplace infant nursery, family infant nursery together).
Source of data: Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2023

Expenditure on family benefits as a percentage of GDP

Indicator description

Total amount of expenditure spent on family allowance, maternity allowance, child care allowance, child raising support, infant care benefit and child care as a percentage of GDP.
Source of data: Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2022

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Hungary, quarters 1-3 of 2023 – On the path of disinflation 10/01/2024
Regional Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2022 17/01/2024
Hungary, 1st semester of 2023 – disinflation started 19/10/2023
Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2022 23/11/2023
Hungary, 2023 Q1 30/08/2023
Statistical Pocketbook of Hungary, 2022 14/06/2023
Hungary, 2022 28/06/2023
Hungary in figures, 2022 11/07/2023
Hungary, Quarter 3 2022 06/02/2023
Regional Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2021 10/01/2023

Release and revision calendarPublication repertory

Summary tables (STADAT) ( infra-annual data annual data )

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Basic social services and day care

25.1.1.30. Basic social services and day care 16/11/2023 30/04/2024
25.1.2.9. Basic social services and day care, by county and region 24/07/2023 30/04/2024

Child protection

25.1.1.18. Young people under child protection by age-groups 06/03/2024 20/03/2024
25.1.1.22. Juveniles placed in reformatory institution 06/03/2024 20/03/2024
25.1.2.6. Minors receiving professional child protection provision, by county and region 06/03/2024 20/03/2024
25.1.1.19. Minors and young adults placed in children's homes and with foster parents by duration of care 19/06/2023 30/04/2024
25.1.1.20. Change in number of children and young adults placed in children's home or with foster parents, by reason for change 19/06/2023 30/04/2024
25.1.1.21. Foster parents 19/06/2023 30/04/2024
25.8.1.3. Young people under child protection by age-groups 06/04/2021

Child welfare provision

25.1.1.9. Children's day care 06/12/2023 05/12/2024
25.1.2.2. Data on infant nurseries (infant nurseries, mini infant nurseries, workplace nurseries, family nurseries) by county and region, 31 May 06/12/2023 05/12/2024
25.1.1.10. Basic welfare provision 16/11/2023 19/04/2024
25.1.2.4. Temporary care data by county and region, 31 December 16/11/2023 22/05/2024
25.1.1.11. Family care services and child welfare services 19/06/2023 19/04/2024
25.1.2.3. Children placed in temporary home for children or in temporary home for family during the year by county and region 15/06/2023 22/05/2024
25.8.1.1. Infant nurseries and out of school care 06/04/2021
25.8.1.2. Family care services and child welfare services 06/04/2021
25.8.2.1. Infant nurseries by county and region 06/04/2021

Family benefits

25.2.1.1. Family and child-care benefits 29/02/2024 02/04/2024
25.1.1.7. Number of families and children receiving family allowance by size of family 16/11/2023 05/06/2024
25.1.1.5. Expenditure on family benefits 28/07/2023 05/06/2024
25.1.1.6. Recipients of family benefits 28/07/2023 05/06/2024
25.1.1.8. Average amounts of benefits related to child care 28/07/2023 05/06/2024
25.1.2.1. Number of recipients of provisions related to maternity and child care, per thousand women of fertile age, by county and region 28/07/2023 22/07/2024

Guardianship

25.1.1.12. Guardianship cases 16/11/2023 15/04/2024
25.1.1.13. People of registered disadvantaged or multiply disadvantaged status, 31 December 16/11/2023 10/07/2024
25.1.1.14. Children under guardianship, 31 December 16/11/2023 10/07/2024
25.1.1.15. Persons under trusteeship, 31 December 16/11/2023 10/07/2024
25.1.1.16. Registered minors taken into child protection, 31 December 16/11/2023 10/07/2024
25.1.2.5. Guardianship cases by county and region, 31 December 16/11/2023 10/07/2024
25.1.1.17. Adoptions, adoptable children and adopters 10/07/2023 15/04/2024

International

25.1.3.1. Social protection benefits in percentage of GDP 16/11/2023 15/11/2024
25.1.3.2. Social protection social benefits, per capita in euro, based on purchasing power parity (PPS) 16/11/2023 15/11/2024

Pensions, benefits, annuities and other provisions

25.2.1.3. New pensions and other benefits according to the approving resolutions 18/03/2024 15/04/2024
25.2.1.4. Number of people receiving pensions, benefits, annuities and other provisions, average and median amount of benefits, by type of benefit 29/02/2024 02/04/2024
25.1.1.39. Number and average monthly amount of full benefit of people receiving pensions, benefits, annuities and other provisions, January 16/11/2023 05/06/2024
25.1.1.42. Data on funding and benefit accounts of voluntary pension funds 16/11/2023 12/06/2024
25.1.1.43. Membership of voluntary pension funds, membership fees and payouts 16/11/2023 12/06/2024
25.1.1.38. Pensions, benefits, annuities and other provisions, pensioners in one's own right 28/07/2023 05/06/2024
25.1.1.40. People receiving pensions and benefits in one’s own right, by amount of full benefit, January 28/07/2023 05/06/2024
25.1.1.41. New pensions and other benefits according to the approving resolutions 28/07/2023 05/06/2024
25.1.2.11. Recipients of pensions, benefits, annuities and other provisions, by county and region, January 28/07/2023 22/07/2024
25.1.2.12. Average benefit of recipients of pensions, benefits, annuities and other provisions, by county and region, January 28/07/2023 22/07/2024
25.8.1.5. New pensions according to resolutions on basic retirement claims 06/04/2021
25.9.1.1. New pensions according to resolutions on basic retirement claims 06/04/2021

Sick-pay and sick-leave

25.2.1.2. Sick-pay data of provisioners of health insurance 29/02/2024 02/04/2024
25.1.1.34. Sick-leave 28/07/2023
25.1.1.35. Health insurance, sick-pay 28/07/2023 05/06/2024
25.1.1.36. Sick pay for industrial accidents and occupational diseases, child-nursing sick pay 28/07/2023 05/06/2024
25.1.1.37. Sick-pay data of provisioners of health insurance 28/07/2023 05/06/2024

Social benefits

25.1.1.24. Number of active-age people receiving regular income support benefits by sex and age group 16/11/2023 14/06/2024
25.1.1.25. Entitlements to nursing and child home care allowances by sex and age group, 31 December 16/11/2023 14/06/2024
25.1.1.26. Families entitled to regular child protection allowance 16/11/2023 14/06/2024
25.1.1.28. Public medical card holders by age group and the base of entitlement, 31 December 16/11/2023 14/06/2024
25.1.1.23. Regular social benefits 11/08/2023 14/06/2024
25.1.1.27. Means-tested local government lumpsum benefits 11/08/2023 14/06/2024
25.1.2.7. Number of people receiving social benefit by county and region 11/08/2023 19/07/2024
25.1.2.8. Amount used for social benefit by county and region 11/08/2023 19/07/2024
25.1.1.29. Recipients of disability support, December 28/07/2023 05/06/2024
25.8.1.4. Other social benefits 06/04/2021

Social protection benefits

25.1.1.4. Social protection benefits by type 30/11/2023 02/04/2024
25.1.1.3. Social protection benefits by functions 16/11/2023 02/04/2024

Social provision

25.1.1.31. Residents in long- and short-term residential social institutions by type of service 24/07/2023 30/04/2024
25.1.1.32. Residents in long- and short-term residential social institutions by maintainer 24/07/2023 30/04/2024
25.1.1.33. Supported housing 24/07/2023 30/04/2024
25.1.2.10. Residents in long- and short-term residential social institutions by county and region 24/07/2023 30/04/2024

Summary table

25.1.1.2. Main long time series of social services 06/03/2024 20/03/2024
25.1.1.1. Summary data on social services 06/12/2023 02/04/2024

Dissemination database ( infra-annual data annual data )

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Pensions, benefits, annuities and other provisions

Pensions, benefits, annuities and other provisions 22/09/2023 22/07/2024
Pensions, pension type benefits 22/05/2015

Health insurance benefits

Sick Pay 22/09/2023 22/07/2024
Sick Pay 22/09/2023 22/07/2024
Health Insurance Provisions 03/07/2009

Family benefits

Family benefits 22/09/2023 22/07/2024
Family Benefits 01/03/2012
Family Benefits 03/07/2009

Social benefits

Social benefits 15/09/2023 31/07/2024
Local social benefit 15/09/2023 31/07/2024
Irregular social benefits granted by local governments 19/12/2017
Irregular social benefits granted by local governments 2006-tól 16/08/2017
Irregular social benefits granted by local governments 1995-2005 21/02/2013

Child welfare provisions and child protection

Infant Nurseries 11/01/2024 12/01/2024
Data on minors and young adults under professional child protection provision 25/09/2023 10/09/2024
Foster parents 25/09/2023 10/09/2024
The number of persons appeared and received service at family and child welfare services and centers 22/09/2023 03/06/2024
Activity of the Public Guardianship Authorities 28/02/2023 16/09/2024
Daycare 16/10/2017
Infant Nurseries 26/09/2017
Infant Nurseries 26/09/2017
Main data on activities of child welfare services 21/09/2016
Child Protection and Welfare 25/08/2010

Social services

Residential Social Institution 28/02/2023 23/08/2024
Social Basic and Day Care 28/02/2023 23/08/2024
Supported housing 28/02/2023 23/08/2024
Type of organization of family assistance services (from 2008) 29/10/2016
Persons employed in family care (from 2009) 29/10/2016
Problems of clients of family assistance services (from 2008) 29/10/2016
Persons receiving family care (from 2009) 29/10/2016
Type of organization of family assistance services (from 2008) 03/12/2013
Persons employed in family care (2008) 03/12/2013
Persons employed in family care (from 2009) 03/12/2013
Problems of clients of family assistance services (from 2008) 03/12/2013
Persons receiving family care (2008) 03/12/2013
Persons receiving family care (from 2009) 03/12/2013
Residential Social Institution 12/11/2012

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