Malaga, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas, the provinces where the number of self-employed grows the most
MADRID, 6 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -
Only six autonomous communities in Spain have added self-employed workers in the last year within the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers (RETA), despite the fact that this closed June losing 99 self-employed workers compared to the same period of the previous year, up to a total of 3,338 .296 self-employed, according to data from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations collected by ATA.
In relative values, the Balearic Islands have led the growth of the self-employed in the last year, with an advance of 2.2%, followed by the Canary Islands (2.1%), the Valencian Community (0.9%), Andalusia (0.5% ), Community of Madrid (0.5%) and Catalonia (0.1%).
However, in absolute terms, the Valencian Community has been the region that has gained the most self-employed in the last year, after adding 3,366 affiliates. They are followed by the Canary Islands (2,914), Andalusia (2,895), the Balearic Islands (2,170), the Community of Madrid (1,920) and Catalonia (420).
Thus, between June 30, 2022 and June 30 of this year, the greatest falls in relative values occurred in the autonomous city of Ceuta (-4.5%), La Rioja (-2%) and Asturias ( -1.8%).
The president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, has stressed that "the data dismantles the falsehood that when salaried employment grows, the self-employed decrease", since in the six autonomous communities where the self-employed grow is also where "salaried employment grows the most ".
"Others say that the self-employed fall due to the regularization of false self-employed, but they also shine with this statement, since it is seen that this regularization has not existed in the six communities where the self-employed are growing strongly," he added.
Andalusia and Catalonia, with 17.1% and 16.8% of the total, are the regions of Spain with the highest number of self-employed. Madrid (12.5% of the total) and the Valencian Community (11%) also stand out.
By provinces, the biggest increases have been in Malaga, with 2,932 more self-employed workers, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1,899), Valencia (1,277) and Las Palmas (1,015).
On the opposite side, the declines of Viscay (-1,700), A Coruna (-797), Caceres (-711), Leon (-703), Zaragoza (-632) and Valladolid (-622) stand out.
On the other hand, from ATA they have highlighted an increase in the rate of growth of self-employed women, with an increase of 0.6% in the interannual rate, compared to the fall of 0.4% of self-employed men.
In absolute terms, the male affiliation to RETA fell by 7,689 contributors in June 2023 compared to June 2022, while the female membership rose by 7,590 self-employed.
Regarding the sectors of activity, the commerce sector presented the greatest drop in the interannual rate, with 19,426 fewer self-employed workers, which represents a decrease of 2.5%.
There have also been decreases in the number of self-employed workers in the industry, with 3,243 less, which implies a decrease of 1.5%; agriculture, with a drop of 2,733 people, 1% less, and hospitality, with 2,421 less (-0.7%).
