on this occasion however given the importance of the subject and the need for information regarding it the chapter on social spending analysis for the region now incorporates the functions classified as nonsocial at the time this edition went to press data were available for only countries since most of them used an aggregate functional classification by major group this is true for social protection in the plurinational state of bolivia from to el salvador from to and trinidad and tobago from to as well as for figures on social security in nicaragua