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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) 2019
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain
Establishments (number) 203 34,749 1,766 1,150 37,868 208,455
Employed persons (number) 3,478 448,870 6,518 33,756 492,622 2,311,811
Operating income 6,040,511 126,782,335 14,889,423 5,003,880 152,716,149 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Turnover 5,826,737 123,854,055 14,456,564 4,658,085 148,795,441 681,317,560
Net sales of products 4,691,847 104,988,951 2,966,784 1,873,829 114,521,411 513,575,592
Net sales of merchandise 1,020,484 12,824,296 9,467,032 185,391 23,497,203 116,217,346
Provision of services 114,406 6,040,808 2,022,748 2,598,865 10,776,827 51,524,620
Work done for the asset 10,386 692,225 53,777 63,364 819,752 2,591,536
Operating subsidies 41,178 241,041 78,743 110,307 471,269 3,763,397
Other operating income 162,209 1,995,016 300,338 172,124 2,629,687 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 6,217 186,400 -83,726 -1,757 107,134 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress 11,789 423,296 -1,538 1,110 434,657 1,225,915
Operating expenses 5,862,639 121,037,528 14,110,231 4,600,533 145,610,931 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Consumption of goods 1,007,303 10,233,264 5,954,153 83,438 17,278,158 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 3,819,919 62,578,846 1,798,109 1,092,813 69,289,687 357,011,992
Work done by other companies 17,150 4,477,715 2,894,012 649,110 8,037,987 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Personnel costs 200,082 18,894,437 494,173 1,291,436 20,880,128 87,382,418
Wages and salaries 146,754 14,698,462 373,165 961,887 16,180,268 66,942,651
Social burdens and other personnel costs 53,327 4,195,975 121,008 329,550 4,699,860 20,439,766
Expenditure on external services 565,338 20,312,856 1,076,996 942,658 22,897,848 91,611,936
Provision for amortizations 170,841 3,788,752 781,268 391,255 5,132,116 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Other operating expenses 82,007 751,658 1,111,519 149,824 2,095,008 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Gross investment in material assets 177,824 4,386,869 514,669 217,748 5,297,110 27,880,492
Gross investment in intangible assets 6,370 897,701 123,405 69,023 1,096,499 3,155,288
Result of the financial year 172,941 5,518,586 1,101,043 387,814 7,180,384 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
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.
As of 2019, the concept of company changes from legal unit (NIF) to statistical unit company (business group) for data for Spain. Consequently, that year's results are not strictly comparable with those of previous years.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: November 17, 2021.

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.