• Data reference period
• Geographic localization (Portugal)

• REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
• SOCIAL PROTECTION EXPENDITURES:  Expenditures of social protection schemes classified by type, indicating the nature of or reason for the expenditure: social protection benefits, administration costs, transfers to other schemes and other expenditure.
• GOVERNMENT (Institutional sector):  The government sector includes all institutional units whose primary function is to produce other, non-market goods and services for individual and collective consumption and/or engaging in the redistribution of income and national wealth. These units' main resources come from mandatory payments made directly or indirectly by units belonging to other sectors.
• ECONOMIC TERRITORY:  Territory that consists on: (a) the geographic territory administered by a government within which persons, goods, services and capital move freely; (b) any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control; (c) the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights; (d) territorial enclaves (i.e. geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between States, by general government agencies of the country (embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.); (e) deposits of oil, natural gas, etc., in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in the preceding subparagraphs.

(Government expenditure (COFOG+07+09+10)/ Total government expenditure)*100