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Artistic, leisure and entertainment activities. Main results. By branches

Artistic, leisure and entertainment activities. Main results. By branches CCAE-2009 Catalonia. 2023
Artistic and show creation activities Library, archive and museum activities Betting and gambling activities Sports, recreation and entertainment activities Total
Companies (number) 11,977 958 1,432 7,583 21,951
Establishments (number) 12,116 1,074 1,587 8,282 23,059
Employed persons (number) 15,498 3,249 8,186 42,983 69,915
Operating income 1,327,846 249,982 2,043,455 3,676,161 7,297,444
Turnover 1,253,344 227,129 2,015,982 3,403,877 6,900,333
Work done for the asset 3,676 1,896 1 8,020 13,594
Operating subsidies 42,699 9,865 703 80,823 134,090
Other operating income 28,127 11,092 26,768 183,440 249,428
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 642 -45 874 -2,427 -956
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress 746 49 1,407 1,024 3,226
Operating expenses 1,054,614 198,397 1,837,463 3,335,241 6,425,716
Consumption of goods 35,664 4,776 149,232 16,266 205,938
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 161,472 11,966 226,574 304,203 704,216
Work done by other companies 259,832 7,926 557,880 136,617 962,255
Personnel costs 234,759 71,212 254,010 1,556,488 2,116,469
Wages and salaries 193,287 55,636 214,798 1,354,051 1,817,771
Social burdens and other personnel costs 41,473 15,576 39,212 202,437 298,698
Expenditure on external services 342,286 81,990 280,830 1,147,293 1,852,399
Provision for amortizations 14,105 14,653 92,976 288,564 410,298
Other operating expenses 6,496 5,873 275,961 -114,189 174,141
Gross investment in tangible assets 19,828 7,380 39,730 371,003 437,940
Gross investment in intangible assets 1,983 2,048 49,235 24,030 77,297
Result of the financial year 38,218 52,833 196,140 200,440 487,632
Units: Thousand euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Structural business statistics in the service sector.

Last update: July 7, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Consumption of goods
Number of purchases of goods (assets acquired by the company to be resold without subjecting them to a transformation process) made by the company during the reference year, less the changes in good inventories. The purchases are accounted for without including VAT and in net terms, in other words, by deducting discounts for immediate payment, sales returns and quantity discounts.
Personnel costs
Total amount of payments made by the company as wages and salaries, compensations, Social Security paid by the company and other social costs (long term retributions via contributory systems or defined allowances, retributions to personnel via patrimony instruments and other social expenses).
Operating expenses
TTotal amount obtained as a result of adding up the different expenses linked to the operations performed by the company: consumption and work performed by other companies, personnel expenses, external services and other operating expenses.
Expenditure on external services
Sum of all the different operating expenses incurred by the company during the reference year, including R&D expenses, leases and fees, repairs and maintenance, services of independent professionals, third-party transport, non-social insurance premiums, banking services and the like, advertising, publicity and public relations, supplies and other services.
Company
The smallest combination of legal units constituting an organisational unit for the production of goods or services, one having certain autonomy in terms of decision-making, principally for allocating the resources it has at its disposal.
Operating revenue
Total amount obtained as a result of aggregating the different revenue associated to the operation.
Gross investment in intangible assets
Amount of expenditure (acquisitions or own production) on research and development activities, investment in IT applications and other intangible assets, such as concessions, patents, licences, trade funds, similar rights and others. These operations are accounted for by their total value without including VAT.
Gross investment in material assets
Amount of the increases in value produced for different types of asset, which originate from purchases of new or used assets from third parties, from the production of one's own assets or from work done by the company or third parties on already existing elements in order to increase production capacity, performance or useful life. This is the gross investment. Until 2007, the investment was calculated as a difference between real increases in the value of capital and the sales of said resources. Investment operations are accounted for as their total value. Purchases are valued at acquisition cost, without including deductible VAT but including transport, installation costs, registration and notary costs and other non deductible taxes. Work done by the company using its resources is valued at cost price. Does not include investments in property made to obtain income or capital gains.
Annual balance
Total amount of the profit or loss for the year as obtained as a consequence of the company's activity.
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 Service Sector, called the Annual Services Survey prior to the reference year 2014, is a sample-based survey that is produced annually by the INE in order to study the economic characteristics of companies in almost all of the market services sector (number of establishments, employment, income and operating costs, etc.) and estimate the main micromagnitudes. Idescat makes a detailed treatment for Catalonia and collaborates with the publishing of questionnaires.

Theinformation on Arts, entertainment and recreation is presented in two tables: main results and macromagnitudes.

Since 2008, the Annual services 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
47Comerç detall, excepte vehicles motor i motocicletes
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

In 2009 and 2010, the "Artistic, leisure and entertainment activities" group was partially studied using a rota system, meaning some of its branches were studied each year. From the year 2011 onwards, all of this group of branches will be studied again.

List of branches each year studied:

2008 2009 2010 2011
Creative, arts and entertainment activities (div. 90)    YES     –    YES    YES
Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities (div. 91)    YES     –    YES    YES
Gambling and betting activities (div. 92)    YES     –     –    YES
Sports activities and amusement and recreation activities (div. 93)    YES    YES     –   YES

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.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.