Share of persons older than 50, on total unemployed (%) 35,11 25 Unemployed persons 25-64 (%) 5,55 12 Tourist overnights per capita 80,18 12 Export per capita (000 euro) 3,46 1,65 GDP per capita (000 euro) 9,12 6,74 Corporate Income Tax in euro per capita 80,23 74,82 Gross salaries per employee (000 euro) 6,85 6,87 Personal Income Tax in euro per capita 269 256,12 Export performance (index 1-7) 3,64 3 Source: Croatian Bureau of Statistics (DZS), Croatian Employment Service (HZZ), Regional competitiveness index Croatia 2007.
1.4. Social dimension Members of national minorities, who have declared their ethnic minority status in the 2001 census, consists of more than 15% of the total population of the Istria county. Around 11% didn’t enter a national membership, of which slightly more than 4% identified themselves in terms of regional affiliation, as “Istrians”. Only the Italian national minority is entitled to equal representation in the representative body of county government since its takes part in the total population of the county with more than 5%. At the county level, ten associations and five national minorities’ institutions currently operate on behalf of the needs of national minorities. The County of Istria, along with the administrative support administrative department, councils, associations and national minorities institutions provide co-financing of material expenses and support programme activities. The total amount of 29.966.379,98 Euros from the national public budget is provided for projects and programmes for providers of social services in the Republic of Croatia in 2008 and includes 2521 projects or programmes, where there are large discrepancies between the total number of funded projects according to funding sources and average amount per project by source of funding. The largest number of projects (1470) is funded by the county and the city; the lowest average amount per project is 6.852,56 Euros. From the Istria County budget, the total amount for the main categories of social services is around 800.000 Euros while the share of services funded for persons with disabilities and elder people is half of the total amount. Most common services for persons with disabilities are the 41.13%, while the share of the most advanced services (in relation to the same services in other counties), in terms of precise distribution according to user category and of services for older people is 18.15%. To these follows the share of funding for services to families in the Istria County (15.28%), the largest compared to other counties; further down in the list are services for the prevention of and rehabilitation from drug addiction (8.72%), and services for children and young people (6.78%), with slightly larger amounts than services for the poor (human services) (4.64%), and for the protection and prevention domestic violence (2.15%). The services for the protection and promotion of human rights amount at 1.12%, followed by health care and preventive health services (0.92%),4 while the least goes to studies that contribute to development of services and creation of social policy (0.63%), and to education service providers (0.50%). County commissions have been established with the task of monitoring the implementation of the Gender Equality Act at the local and regional levels; awareness-raising activities on gender equality 4
A major part of the Croatian health system is financed according to a national health insurance model. The funds are collected via contributions from employees' salaries that are paid by employers, from farmers' contributions, and from transfers from the central government budget or county budget for certain categories of the population. The agreement and payment of the mandatory health insurance is conducted through the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance (CIHI).
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