Official COFOG category
Competition policy, labour-market regulation, employment programmes, and economic statistics.
2001–2024
2008–2010 · shock
Capital injections, guarantees, and asset purchases during the 2008-2009 banking crisis show up under economic-affairs (GF04*) for several years afterward.
2014–2015 · reform
The Sixth State Reform entered into force July 2014 with transitional rollout through 2015. Family allowances, healthcare-adjacent spending, and employment policy moved from federal to regional/community budgets, producing breaks in the pre-/post-reform federal series.
2020–2021 · shock
Federal and regional emergency outlays for healthcare, employment, and family support drove a sharp transient spike in 2020-2021 across most COFOG categories.
General economic, commercial and labour affairs · Central government
BE.expense.cofog.GF0401.S1311
General economic, commercial and labour affairs · State government
BE.expense.cofog.GF0401.S1312
General economic, commercial and labour affairs · Local government
BE.expense.cofog.GF0401.S1313
General economic, commercial and labour affairs · Social security funds
BE.expense.cofog.GF0401.S1314