Skip to main content

Purchases and outsourcing. By activity groups and geographic destination of sales

Industrial companies. Turnover. By activity group CCAE-2009 and geographic destination of sales 2013
Catalonia Rest of Spain Abroad Total
Total industry 37,528,834 48,199,882 40,270,997 125,999,712
Extraction industries, oil refining 258,049 6,189,920 635,587 7,083,556
Industries of food products 9,391,105 7,792,279 4,687,242 21,870,626
Production of beverages and of tobacco products 1,463,518 948,192 436,297 2,848,007
Manufacture of textiles, leather, footwear. Tailoring 1,531,327 1,337,392 1,734,727 4,603,446
Manufacture of wood and cork-based products, except furniture; basketry 372,806 134,071 167,482 674,360
Manufacture of paper and graphic arts 2,233,732 1,799,701 1,353,520 5,386,953
Chemicals industries 3,197,979 6,038,535 6,916,456 16,152,970
Manufacture of pharmaceutical products 1,222,821 2,157,326 2,697,888 6,078,035
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products 1,371,375 1,432,915 1,659,758 4,464,048
Other non-metal mineral products industries 691,959 660,135 551,448 1,903,543
Metallurgy 949,715 824,753 1,728,467 3,502,935
Manufacture of steel products, except machinery and equipment 3,164,399 1,452,035 1,793,996 6,410,430
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical material and equipment 1,050,591 1,626,065 1,748,168 4,424,824
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified 1,236,919 865,996 2,076,489 4,179,404
Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 1,802,498 2,273,043 10,204,500 14,280,041
Manufacture of other transport equipment, except motor vehicles 57,455 189,465 234,108 481,029
Furniture making and other manufacturing industries 664,540 613,017 604,419 1,881,976
Repair and installation of machinery and equipment 782,592 299,303 214,976 1,296,871
Electricity and gas production and supply 3,596,839 10,998,194 713,126 15,308,160
Water supply; sanitation and waste management 2,488,613 567,544 112,342 3,168,499
Units: 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.

Last update: March 30, 2015.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Geographic destination of sales
Distribution of the company's total amount of turnover between three geographical markets: Spain, the rest of the European Union and the rest of the world.
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.

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