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Retail trade. Employed persons. By branches

Retail trade and repairs. Employed persons. By sectors. CCAE-93 2004
By sex By labour situation
Men Women Salaried Others Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Non specialised establishments 20,988 45,247 62,413 3,822 66,235 450,502 14.7
Food, beverages and tobacco 21,170 40,535 37,416 24,289 61,705 271,383 22.7
Pharmaceutical and beauty products 4,560 12,315 12,752 4,123 16,875 105,818 15.9
Other trading of new articles 53,972 85,898 97,062 42,808 139,870 795,476 17.6
Second hand goods, in establishments 380 208 311 277 588 3,155 18.6
Trade outside of establishments 7,740 6,378 6,400 7,718 14,118 81,678 17.3
Reparació d'efectes personals i domèstics 4,466 1,415 3,388 2,493 5,881 29,929 19.6
Total 113,276 191,996 219,742 85,530 305,272 1,737,941 17.6
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Annual survey of services.
Notes:
On September 30.
A partir del 2008 les dades sectorials corresponen a la nova Classificació catalana d'activitats econòmiques CCAE-2009. Això comporta que no puguin ser comparables amb les dels anys anteriors.

Last update: May 31, 2011.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hours worked by employees
Total number of hours actually worked by employees for production during the reference period. It includes the total number of usual hours and overtime.
Employees
Workers linked to the company by means of a work contract who receive remuneration in the form of wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses, fixed prices or in kind. It includes both permanent and temporary personnel, either full-time or part-time.

Methodological aspects

The main source of trade statistics is the Structural business statistics in the trade sector, called the Annual Trade Survey prior to the reference year 2014, conducted by the INE in accordance with European Union regulations, whereby the statistics for Catalonia are exploited by Idescat. General information is obtained on the evolution of commerce and three main groups or sections that it is made up of:

  • sale and repair of motor vehicles and motocycles
  • wholesale
  • retail

This breakdown presents the tables showing the main results for macromagnitudes and employed persons. In turn, these large groups are subdivided into branches that cover all specialities of commerce. For this smaller breakdown, tables showing macromagnitudes and employed persons are also presented.

Since 2008, the Annual commerce survey has been adapted to the new National classification of economic activities (CNAE-2009). This change involves a shift in the series that prevents inter-annual comparison between most sectors and some variables.

The correspondences between the sectors used and the Catalan classification of economic activities (CCAE-2009) is as follows:

CCAE-2009Groups of activities
  
45Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
46Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
47Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
49-53Transportation and storage
55,56Accommodation and food service activities
58-63Information and communication
68Real estate activities
69-75Professional, scientific and technical activities
77-82Administrative and support service activities
90-93Arts, entertainment and recreation
95,96Other services

Several methodological improvements were applied to the Structural Business Statistics in 2016. The results for 2016 are therefore not strictly comparable with those for previous years.

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