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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By sections CCAE-2009 2013
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Number of establishments 150 34,228 862 1,035 36,275 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Establishments with 50 employees or more 8 1,300 18 73 1,399 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Employed persons 3,509 389,966 6,748 27,367 427,591 1,949,194 21.9
Operating revenues 7,288,797 102,806,267 15,739,394 3,481,142 129,315,601 575,605,189 22.5
Net turnover 7,083,556 100,439,497 15,308,160 3,168,499 125,999,712 562,350,692 22.4
Net sales of products 5,700,712 84,181,859 7,402,112 977,380 98,262,063 444,363,082 22.1
Net sales of merchandise 1,277,833 11,171,983 6,081,878 137,929 18,669,623 76,704,835 24.3
Provision of services 105,012 5,085,655 1,824,170 2,053,189 9,068,026 41,282,775 22.0
Treballs realitzats per a l'immobilitzat 11,749 434,902 54,057 72,214 572,922 2,122,666 27.0
Subsidies, donations and legacies 13,342 125,024 73,037 82,177 293,580 2,221,309 13.2
Other operating income 180,150 1,806,844 304,140 158,253 2,449,387 8,910,522 27.5
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise -35,535 -46,376 -26,388 -2,195 -110,494 -1,591,327 6.9
Inventory variation of products -55,732 -107,159 -234 678 -162,447 -1,007,990 16.1
Operating expenses 7,439,321 99,578,952 14,804,231 3,177,362 124,999,866 549,155,606 22.8
Net purchases of raw materials 5,189,438 47,390,022 4,393,694 388,369 57,361,523 256,056,211 22.4
Net purchases of other supplies 66,527 4,294,214 432,732 223,293 5,016,766 27,368,319 18.3
Net purchases of merchandise 1,207,717 8,127,200 4,130,163 83,823 13,548,903 55,547,242 24.4
Work done by other companies 15,249 3,565,200 2,458,597 365,923 6,404,970 33,793,480 19.0
Personnel costs 203,757 15,226,478 582,408 1,022,342 17,034,985 70,107,296 24.3
Outsourcing 457,345 16,485,537 1,097,283 686,037 18,726,202 72,624,495 25.8
Other operating costs 299,287 4,490,301 1,709,353 407,576 6,906,517 33,658,564 20.5
Gross investment in material assets 213,060 2,734,418 462,578 124,362 3,534,418 17,838,977 19.8
Gross investment in intangible assets 3,658 567,505 57,070 21,620 649,853 2,430,795 26.7
Result of the financial year -257,399 1,707,829 1,124,711 101,110 2,676,251 17,180,676 15.6
Units: The financial figures are expressed in thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the INE's Industrial survey of companies.
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.
Until the year 2012, the Survey focussed its field of study on industrial companies with at least one employee. From 2013 onwards, the field of study was widened to include industrial companies without employees. In 2013, the Survey also widened and improved coverage of the waste management sector (division 38 of the CCAAE-2009). As such, growth in the results is affected by the aforementioned changes to scope.
(z) Category not applicable.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: March 15, 2016.

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.