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Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) Catalonia. 2023
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Total
Establishments (number) 234 35,553 1,605 1,199 38,591
Employed persons (number) 3,369 456,182 5,918 32,258 497,727
Operating income 12,592,713 155,366,536 20,641,258 5,328,199 193,928,706
Turnover 12,292,874 151,595,345 20,255,471 4,957,904 189,101,594
Net sales of products 10,096,702 127,749,500 4,349,946 1,642,225 143,838,373
Net sales of merchandise 1,906,510 14,920,081 13,993,603 364,933 31,185,127
Provision of services 289,663 8,925,763 1,911,922 2,950,745 14,078,093
Work done for the asset 17,148 997,575 113,264 92,464 1,220,451
Operating subsidies 191,733 676,811 90,724 60,894 1,020,162
Other operating income 90,957 2,096,804 181,801 216,937 2,586,499
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise -38,346 -674,462 -123,351 15,316 -820,843
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress -84,870 -109,448 -8,732 4,461 -198,589
Operating expenses 11,847,281 147,124,595 18,450,578 5,050,522 182,472,976
Consumption of goods 1,903,109 12,163,597 10,380,831 119,203 24,566,740
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 8,417,358 79,645,685 2,914,063 1,337,268 92,314,374
Work done by other companies 22,314 5,127,693 1,994,473 725,992 7,870,472
Personnel costs 217,788 21,116,927 481,269 1,365,865 23,181,849
Wages and salaries 163,362 16,371,198 350,008 1,021,630 17,906,198
Social burdens and other personnel costs 54,426 4,745,730 131,261 344,235 5,275,652
Expenditure on external services 897,079 23,338,000 1,158,314 1,010,817 26,404,210
Provision for amortizations 209,271 4,369,797 671,536 366,061 5,616,665
Other operating expenses 180,364 1,362,892 850,092 125,317 2,518,665
Gross investment in material assets 183,243 5,546,348 772,037 253,847 6,755,475
Gross investment in intangible assets 4,221 1,315,587 85,716 101,986 1,507,510
Result of the financial year 420,293 6,044,101 1,392,668 289,553 8,146,615
Units: Thousand euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector.
Note: 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.

Last update: July 3, 2025.

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.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.