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Archives. Main indicators. By ownership

Archives. Main indicators. By ownership Catalonia. 2013
Surface (m²) Shelves (m) Consulting rooms Places Documents (m) Consultations
Generalitat 120,263 683,183 87 910 547,863 686,765
Local administration 48,940 264,775 152 1,283 209,524 475,756
State 2,464 9,646 4 33 8,374 2,968
Church 11,204 27,430 37 327 20,766 34,941
Others 12,739 63,715 52 527 50,055 400,548
Total 195,610 1,048,749 332 3,080 836,582 1,600,978
Source: Ministry of Culture.
Note: Does not include data from the Archive of the Crown of Aragon.

Last update: October 14, 2014.

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Centre that houses historical content, with somebody effectively in charge of the same and that orders and regulates access and consultation of the content placed at the service of researchers,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