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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) Catalonia
Establishments (number) Employed persons (number) Operating income Turnover Net sales of products Net sales of merchandise Provision of services Work done for the asset Operating subsidies Other operating income Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise Inventory variation in products finished and in progress Operating expenses Consumption of goods Consumption of raw materials and other supplies Work done by other companies Personnel costs Wages and salaries Social burdens and other personnel costs Expenditure on external services Provision for amortizations Other operating expenses Gross investment in material assets Gross investment in intangible assets Result of the financial year
2018 37,921 487,912 150,762,661 147,007,147 113,081,787 23,442,810 10,482,550 746,911 333,281 2,675,321 515,821 494,262 143,898,561 17,463,975 68,597,009 8,149,855 19,899,353 15,427,940 4,471,413 22,524,952 4,983,332 2,280,085 5,020,405 932,154 7,239,333
2017 36,343 469,163 142,315,149 138,825,841 107,482,380 21,462,939 9,880,522 593,390 332,717 2,563,201 451,072 524,859 135,286,068 15,713,514 65,488,192 7,806,830 18,596,142 14,442,055 4,154,087 20,888,581 4,706,414 2,086,394 4,833,908 980,163 6,508,501
2016 36,298 460,124 133,246,675 130,002,368 99,427,085 20,401,841 10,173,441 541,031 306,922 2,396,354 536,736 243,993 125,852,181 14,357,803 59,166,379 7,759,887 18,251,250 14,191,906 4,059,344 19,963,271 4,589,114 1,764,478 4,790,043 776,292 6,883,419
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector.
Notes:
La secció d'indústries extractives inclou la divisió 19, refinació de petroli, tot i que segons la CCAE-2009 pertany a la secció indústries manufactureres.
Several methodological improvements were applied to the Structural Business Statistics in 2016. The results for 2016 are therefore not strictly comparable with those for previous years.

Last update: November 20, 2020.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Changes in inventories of raw materials, other supplies and goods
Amount corresponding to the difference between the final inventories and initial inventories of raw materials, other supplies and goods. These inventories are valued at acquisition cost.
Changes in inventories in products finished and in progress
Amount corresponding to the difference between the final and initial inventories of the different products (finished, semi-finished and in progress, by-products, waste and recovered materials) manufactured by the company. These inventories are valued at production cost.
Turnover
It includes the amounts invoiced by the company during the reference year for sales of goods and services corresponding to the company's ordinary activities. These sales are accounted for in net terms, in other words, by deducting sales discounts for immediate payment, sales returns, the value of returned packaging and quantity discounts. The taxes and duties on invoiced goods and services are included but the VAT transferred to the customer is excluded.

Methodological aspects

The Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector , called the Industrial Survey of Companies prior to the reference year 2014, is the main source of information on the industrial sector. This is an annual sample-based survey conducted by the INE in collaboration with Idescat. It offers structural information on industrial companies (establishments, employed population, production, costs and sales) disaggregated by large sectors and by 15 groups of the CCAE-2009.

The survey covers the whole territory of Spain (until 2012 were excluded Ceuta and Melilla) and is designed to offer results by autonomous communities. Idescat performs an annual treatment of the microdata in the survey in order to extend the results for Catalonia, both in terms of the number of branches and the available variables.

In 2008, the Industrial Survey of Companies was reformed in order to adapt it to the new European Regulation on Structural Business Statistics (SBS), the new national Classification of Economic Activities (CNAE-2009) and the new General Accounting Plan, passed in 2007. Some new modifications were also introduced to improve the quality of the survey while maintaining the strategic objective of reducing the burden on informants.

Until the year 2012, the Survey focussed its field of study on industrial companies with at least one employee. From 2013 onwards, the population scope was widened to include industrial companies without employees and the territorial scope was widened to include companies in Ceuta and Melilla. This extension of the populational scope of the sample (selected for Spain as a whole, not by autonomous communities) has led to an increase in the year-over-year variability of the number of companies and establishments. To ensure the comparability of the indicators between the different years, the calculations only take into account industrial companies with employees.

Several methodological improvements were applied to the Structural Business Statistics in 2016; consequently, that year's results are not strictly comparable with those of previous years.

From 2019, the results for Spain are shown using the statistical companies unit, while for Catalonia the results continue to be shown in legal units.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.