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Archives. Main indicators. By ownership

Archives. Main indicators. By ownership Catalonia. 2010
Surface (m²) Shelves (m) Consulting rooms Places Documents (m) Consultations
Generalitat 90,820 523,848 86 847 412,866 347,008
Local administration 48,707 254,468 154 1,294 193,455 342,590
State 1,831 12,273 4 31 8,215 3,903
Church 11,376 25,513 39 346 20,646 84,446
Others 26,260 64,354 51 560 50,580 94,601
Total 178,994 880,456 334 3,078 685,762 872,548
Source: Ministry of Culture.
Note: Does not include data from the Archive of the Crown of Aragon.

Last update: February 22, 2013.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Archive
Centre that houses historical content, with somebody effectively in charge of the same and that orders and regulates access and consultation of the content placed at the service of researchers, whatever its administrative dependence.

Methodological aspects

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".