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Self-employed figures
THE Special Regime for SelfEmployed Workers (RETA) has lost 99 selfemployed workers throughout the last year.
The news is according to data published by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration and is compiled by the National Federation of Associations of SelfEmployed Workers (ATA).
This means the number of selfemployed workers totalled 3,338,296 in June 2023.
In relative terms, the Balearic Islands has led the growth in the number of selfemployed workers over the last year, with an increase of 2.2 per cent, followed by the Canary Islands (+2.1 per cent), the Valencian Community (+0.9 per cent), Andalusia, the Community of Madrid (+0.5 per cent) and Catalonia (+0.1 per cent). However, in absolute terms, the Valencian Community has been the region that has gained the most selfemployed workers in the last year, after adding 3,366 affiliates.
It was followed by the Canary Islands (+2,914), Andalusia (+2,895), the Balearic Islands (+2,170), the Community of Madrid (+1,920) and Catalonia (+420).
Between 30 June 2022 and 30 June 2023, the largest falls in relative values were in the autonomous city of Ceuta (4.5 per cent), La Rioja (2 per cent) and Asturias (1.8 per cent).
Selfemployed persons were also lost in Castilla y León ( 1.6 per cent), Extremadura (1.3 per cent),
Murcia and the Basque Country ( 1.1 per cent), Aragón (1 per cent), Castilla La Mancha ( 0.93 per cent), Galicia and Melilla (0.8 per cent), Navarra (0.7 per cent) and Cantabria (0.5 per cent). The largest decreases, in absolute terms, were recorded in Castilla y Leon (3,003), the Basque Country (1,920) and Galicia (1,725). The president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, confirmed: “The data disproves the falsehood that when salaried employment grows, selfemployment falls.” “In the six autonomous communities where the selfemployed are growing, salaried em through social media.
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