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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) 2020
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain
Establishments (number) 208 34,092 1,660 1,138 37,098 206,764
Employed persons (number) 3,379 441,397 5,580 33,114 483,470 2,292,568
Operating income 3,558,787 114,377,383 12,262,654 4,438,570 134,637,394 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Turnover 3,355,401 111,452,232 11,999,811 4,109,395 130,916,839 604,087,971
Net sales of products 2,564,323 94,294,261 2,086,219 1,528,536 100,473,339 453,551,854
Net sales of merchandise 690,342 11,187,419 7,918,566 336,352 20,132,679 99,825,609
Provision of services 100,736 5,970,551 1,995,026 2,244,507 10,310,820 50,710,507
Work done for the asset 14,109 695,159 46,392 56,238 811,898 2,486,543
Operating subsidies 37,655 296,456 80,825 86,623 501,559 3,932,726
Other operating income 151,622 1,933,536 135,626 186,314 2,407,098 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise -109,299 147,587 -81,724 -4,782 -48,218 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress -111,788 -168,346 -4,242 4,714 -279,662 -1,722,420
Operating expenses 3,742,507 110,522,110 11,348,369 4,237,777 129,850,763 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Consumption of goods 683,765 8,990,349 4,662,588 67,073 14,403,775 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 2,122,435 55,429,452 1,205,499 898,619 59,656,005 311,776,918
Work done by other companies 18,949 4,005,976 2,696,899 611,507 7,333,331 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Personnel costs 194,526 17,975,876 432,853 1,251,178 19,854,433 85,217,609
Wages and salaries 144,535 13,901,492 308,251 938,009 15,292,287 65,037,155
Social burdens and other personnel costs 49,991 4,074,383 124,602 313,169 4,562,145 20,180,454
Expenditure on external services 453,183 18,299,778 939,994 922,599 20,615,554 83,993,742
Provision for amortizations 187,107 4,005,825 695,019 344,526 5,232,477 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Other operating expenses 82,542 1,814,853 715,517 142,275 2,755,187 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Gross investment in material assets 116,155 3,924,526 486,101 196,452 4,723,234 26,037,578
Gross investment in intangible assets 5,171 897,584 47,015 62,840 1,012,610 3,039,333
Result of the financial year 600,385 3,504,194 848,311 205,614 5,158,504 .. 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 8, 2022.

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.