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Investment abroad. By activity branches

Investment abroad. By activity branches Catalonia. 2nd quarter 2006
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % quarter % accumulated
Total 953.1 727.8 323.0 89.9
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 0.0 0.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Mining industries 0.0 0.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Manufacturing industries 77.5 27.6 55.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.0
Water, sewers and waste management 224.5 220.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Construction 7.2 5.7 397.5 86.0
Wholesale and retail trade 56.8 5.5 10.7 -83.0
Transport and storage 2.2 1.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 38.4
Accommodation and food service activities 65.8 -0.6 -0.9 76.1
Information and communications 105.3 102.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Financial activities and insurance 154.7 153.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Real estate activities 44.2 43.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Professional, scientific and technical activities 201.6 201.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Administrative and support service activities 0.0 -3.0 -99.4 -19.0
Education 0.0 0.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Health and social services 0.0 -35.9 -100.0 -0.3
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 13.1 4.5 53.2 72.8
Other services 0.0 0.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Milions d'euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Economy and Business Affairs.
Note: Provisional data.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Investment abroad. By activity branches Spain. 2nd quarter 2006
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % quarter % accumulated
Total 8,150.0 -2,575.2 -24.0 161.8
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 39.5 25.3 179.4 149.3
Mining industries 25.0 22.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Manufacturing industries 776.5 -1,159.4 -59.9 6.2
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 529.6 474.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Water, sewers and waste management 417.8 414.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Construction 909.4 -3,120.9 -77.4 -43.9
Wholesale and retail trade 220.1 53.3 31.9 -40.3
Transport and storage 324.4 317.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 91.1
Accommodation and food service activities 175.3 48.1 37.9 58.2
Information and communications 1,005.3 -1,807.5 -64.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Financial activities and insurance 3,325.7 1,973.0 145.9 107.0
Real estate activities 100.7 45.1 81.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Professional, scientific and technical activities 224.6 217.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Administrative and support service activities 31.0 14.4 87.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Education 0.0 0.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Health and social services 0.0 -70.2 -100.0 -38.3
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 45.1 -21.7 -32.5 -30.1
Other services 0.0 -0.1 -95.8 -95.8
Units: Milions d'euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Economy and Business Affairs.
Note: Provisional data.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: February 5, 2002. Revised series on April 12, 2021. Next update: December 20, 2024

Methodological note

The definition of direct foreign investment basically follows the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund (5th Balance of Payments Manual) and the OCDE (Benchmark Definition).

The data is based on that declared by investors pursuant to Act 19/2003, dated 4 July, on the legal system for capital movements and economic transactions abroad and measures to prevent money laundering, and the regulations that further implement it (Royal Decree 664/1999, Ministerial Order dated 28 May 2001 and Ministerial Ruling dated 21 February 2002). They do not include financing between companies, reinvested profits (save in the case of capitalisation of loans and/or profits) and investment in real estate.

Gross investment includes direct investment declared to the Foreign Investment Registry (FIR) of non-residents which entails:

  • holdings in unlisted companies domiciled abroad
  • holdings in listed companies domiciled abroad (over 10% of capital)
  • setting up or expansion of branches
  • other forms of investment contracts or entities registered abroad (foundations, cooperatives, economic interest groups), in which the invested capital exceeds EUR 1,502,530.26

Excluded from the data are foreign share holding companies (ETVEs). ETVEs are holding companies set up in Spain whose sole purpose is to hold shares in companies located abroad.

The information has been broken down into activity branches by the destination of the investment in accordance with the sections in the new Catalan Classification of Economic Activities 2009 (CCEA-2009).

Foreign investment is obtained from official data published by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism from the Statistics on Foreign Investment in Spain and Spanish Investment Abroad. The data are provisional, given that in the corresponding quarterly updates, information referring to previous periods is modified as a result of operations which were declared in the last period but carried out prior to this.

For each new period published, Idescat updates and reviews the information published by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism for the last 10 years.