Table 1.
Overview of the cost of cuban social safety net
Selected years 1980-1992 (in million pesos)

Item	1992	1990	1989	1987	1985	1982	1981	1980
Gross Domestic Product	12100.0	18731.0	19430.0	19178.0	19222.0	16420.0	15506.0	13259.0
Wages and salaries paid	8227.4	N/A	7971.0	7290.0	7139.0	6089.0	5748.6	4851.0

Social Safety Net
Cash benefits
Pension and Maternity
Revenues	N/A	N/A	N/A	608.9	739.1	629.2	587.2	490.8
Expenses	1528.6	1399.9	1313.1	1097.0	930.6	778.6	713.1	686.8
Subsidies	N/A	N/A	N/A	488.1	191.5	149.4	125.9	196.0

Unemployment Compensation	867.4	N/A	390.1	N/A	N/A	N/A	173.8	N/A
Educational Cash Grants	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

In-kind Benefits
Health benefits	1038.8	1045.1	1015.6	922.2	794.3	594.7	558.9	440.2
Housing subsidies	N/A	N/A	N/A	116.8	115.9	103.4	98.4	84.6
Food subsidies	N/A	N/A	800.0	610.0	N/A	N/A	671.0	1887.0

Social assistance
Day Care
Revenues	N/A	N/A	2.1	1.7	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.3
Expenses	N/A	N/A	7.2	5.8	5.2	4.8	4.5	4.3
Subsidies	N/A	N/A	5.1	4.1	3.7	3.4	3.2	3.0
Other Social assistance	N/A	N/A	41.2	37.3	32.9	28.6	26.8	19.3

Educational subsidies
Boarding students
Room	N/A	N/A	36.2	35.8	35.5	34.9	34.8	30.2
Board (food)	N/A	N/A	87.0	85.8	85.2	83.8	83.6	72.4
Total	N/A	N/A	123.2	121.6	120.7	118.7	118.4	102.6
Semi-boarding students (food)	N/A	N/A	35.1	31.6	32.0	28.8	27.0	25.6

Note: N/A denotes information not available
Sources: The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data come from Alonso and Lago (1994), the wage data come from the Anuarios Estadísticos de Cuba (Selected years). For all the other data, see the text.

Table 1. Overview of the cost of cuban social safety net Selected years 1980-1992 (in million pesos)

Table 1.
Overview of the cost of cuban social safety net
Selected years 1980-1992 (in million pesos)