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Professional, scientific and specialist activities. Main results. By branches

Professional, scientific and specialist activities. Main results. By branches CCAE-2009 Catalonia. 2022
Legal and accounting Head office and business consulting Technical serv., architecture & engineering, tech. analysis Research and development Advertising and market analysis Other professional and specialist Veterinary Total
Companies (number) 25,405 5,821 22,546 2,031 14,191 19,096 1,574 90,663
Establishments (number) 26,603 6,345 23,703 2,098 14,941 19,876 1,780 95,347
Employed persons (number) 68,082 40,690 54,529 7,335 31,534 32,337 5,087 239,593
Operating income 5,631,152 5,259,696 5,049,718 909,656 4,956,129 2,342,701 330,590 24,479,643
Turnover 5,503,532 4,897,956 4,950,777 701,643 4,853,424 2,234,104 327,125 23,468,561
Work done for the asset 2,542 60,868 27,619 117,487 11,962 63,866 12 284,356
Operating subsidies 9,630 47,671 28,922 55,714 11,192 20,615 1,485 175,229
Other operating income 115,448 253,201 42,401 34,813 79,550 24,115 1,969 551,496
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 553 -3,647 879 -11,048 2,170 559 1,215 -9,319
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress 7,135 4,931 27,962 3,817 1,817 -1,665 575 44,572
Operating expenses 4,408,090 7,759,887 4,469,822 839,992 4,504,157 1,687,031 293,576 23,962,555
Consumption of goods 347 104,897 24,211 508 1,147,980 8,044 3,777 1,289,764
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 115,411 261,390 738,447 102,510 444,370 268,718 111,170 2,042,017
Work done by other companies 200,637 454,146 806,572 46,252 859,002 254,088 13,951 2,634,648
Personnel costs 1,939,004 2,613,261 1,720,811 303,076 986,860 656,658 104,341 8,324,011
Wages and salaries 1,542,580 2,117,927 1,349,105 242,014 789,422 519,445 81,434 6,641,927
Social burdens and other personnel costs 396,424 495,334 371,706 61,062 197,438 137,213 22,907 1,682,084
Expenditure on external services 1,806,835 2,030,106 1,016,789 317,201 955,276 403,656 50,565 6,580,429
Provision for amortizations 115,413 996,768 112,340 60,220 68,940 76,820 8,368 1,438,870
Other operating expenses 230,443 1,299,318 50,652 10,225 41,728 19,046 1,404 1,652,816
Gross investment in tangible assets 238,907 154,957 103,698 14,861 26,475 50,426 10,020 599,344
Gross investment in intangible assets 33,740 115,013 69,375 108,278 21,852 71,366 293 419,916
Result of the financial year 239,108 1,368,061 256,199 19,007 166,083 189,679 12,803 2,250,940
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Structural business statistics in the service sector.

Last update: July 10, 2024.

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.

The information about professional, scientific and technical activities, administrative and support service activities; that Idescat has produced using data from the from the INE 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
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
69-75 Professional, scientific and technical activities
77-82 Administrative and support service activities
90-93Arts, entertainment and recreation
95,96Other services

In 2009, 2010 and 2010, the "Other services" group was partially studied. From the year 2012 onwards, the two branches of this group will be studied again.

List of branches each year studied:

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Repair of computers and personal and household goods (div. 95)    YES    YES    YES   YES    YES
Other personal service activities (div. 96)    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.

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