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Employed persons in services. By activity group

Employed persons in services. By activity group (CCEA-93) Catalonia. 2002
Value Variation (%)
Sale, maintenance and reparation of motor vehicles 64,307 3.6
Wholesale and intermediate, except motor vehicles 211,099 7.6
Retail except motor vehicles; reparations 295,976 9.2
Hotels, camp sites and other short duration accommodation 46,123 8.2
Catering 147,763 3.5
Travel agencies and tour operators 9,433 8.6
Transport of travellers 35,612 0.1
Transports of goods 66,258 10.8
Transport related activities 35,188 1.1
Post and courier activities 22,418 5.8
Telecommunications 11,387 -5.9
IT activities 39,466 12.7
Real estate activities 56,448 13.9
Renting activities 11,143 8.6
Research and development 4,268 15.1
Legal, accounting and business management activities 72,759 15.6
Market research and public opinion polls 5,854 1.0
Technical services 37,384 3.5
Advertising 19,325 1.0
Personal selection 52,719 -14.1
Research and security services 13,855 -8.7
Cleaning industrial activities 66,621 3.7
Diverse business activities 49,719 21.4
Audiovisual services 12,932 12.5
Other recreative, cultural and sports activities 48,102 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Personal service diverse activities 40,020 5.5
Units: Persons.
Source: Idescat, based on the Structural business statistics in the trade sector and the Structural business statistics in the service sector of INE.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Employed persons in services. By activity group (CCEA-93) Spain. 2002
Value Variation (%)
Sale, maintenance and reparation of motor vehicles 369,321 5.5
Wholesale and intermediate, except motor vehicles 1,015,273 4.8
Retail except motor vehicles; reparations 1,621,438 7.5
Hotels, camp sites and other short duration accommodation 276,103 4.3
Catering 844,771 4.4
Travel agencies and tour operators 47,000 4.9
Transport of travellers 240,273 1.7
Transports of goods 340,359 6.3
Transport related activities 149,631 7.6
Post and courier activities 116,882 5.6
Telecommunications 72,571 -7.5
IT activities 174,764 5.6
Real estate activities 252,248 19.4
Renting activities 73,325 7.4
Research and development 16,082 5.4
Legal, accounting and business management activities 334,741 6.6
Market research and public opinion polls 18,760 -24.8
Technical services 214,187 10.3
Advertising 89,712 -17.5
Personal selection 223,815 4.5
Research and security services 94,635 5.3
Cleaning industrial activities 360,918 7.6
Diverse business activities 226,279 29.6
Audiovisual services 68,253 4.5
Other recreative, cultural and sports activities 220,407 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Personal service diverse activities 191,958 6.5
Units: Persons.
Source: INE. Structural business statistics in the trade sector and Structural business statistics in the service sector.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: December 16, 2004.

Methodological note

The Structural Business Statistics in the Service Sector (called the Annual Services Survey prior to the reference year 2014), is the main source of structural information for all market services. It is a sample survey performed annually by the National Statistical Institute (INE) in collaboration with the Statistical Institute of Catalonia (Idescat) in the Catalan territory. Its fundamental objective is the study of the economic characteristics of companies in the sector, such as their primary activities and employment, as well as accounting data such as expenses or income.

The statistical unit used in the research is companies whose main economic activity is to provide one of the services described in following. A company is considered to be the smallest combination of legal entities that make up an organizational unit that produces goods or services and has a certain degree of autonomy in regard to decision-making. A company may carry out its activities in one or several local units (establishments). The data published for Catalonia regarding this statistic refers to the activities developed by the company units in Catalonia, according to the Catalan Classification of Economic Activities 2009 (CCAE-2009). Until 2007, the classification used was CCAE-93.

Sectorisation corresponding to the Catalan Classification of Economic Activities 2009 (CCAE-2009)
Activity groupsCCAE-2009
Sale and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles45
Wholesale and intermediaries, except motor vehicles46
Retail sales, except motor vehicles and motorcycles 47
Transport and storage 49–53
Accommodation and food service activities55, 56
Information and communications 58–63
Real estate activities 68
Professional, scientific and technical activities 69–75
Administrative activities and auxiliary services77–82
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities90–93
Other services 95, 96

Employees are a group of people who, by performing their job, contribute to the production of goods or services or carry out auxiliary services to a company (administration, transport, warehousing). This includes holiday staff, those on short-term or sick leave, those on strike, and those paid by the company but who work offsite. This does not include personnel with unlimited leave, personnel assigned to another company and are paid for this concept, personnel who work strictly on commission, freelance professionals bound to the company by commercial contract, exclusively financial partners or the owner's family members who do not take an active role in the company. The reference point for the employment data is 30th September of each year.

From 2009 to 2011, the "Artistic, leisure and entertainment activities" and "Other services" groups were partially studied using a rota system, meaning some of its branches were studied each year. From the year 2012 onwards, all of this group of branches will be studied again. The relationship of branches studied each year is as follows:

Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities:

Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities
20082009201020112012
Creative, artistic and show activities (div. 90)YesYesYesYes
Library, archival and museum activities (div. 91)YesYesYesYes
Gambling and betting (div. 92)YesYesYes
Sporting, recreational and entertainment activities (div. 93)YesYesYesYes
Other services
20082009201020112012
Computer repair, personal belongings and domestic goods (div. 95)YesYesYesYesYes
Other activities in personal services (div. 96)YesYes

In 2014, companies not previously included in the Survey framework were incorporated into the "Wholesale trade and intermediaries, except motor vehicles" branch (group 467 of the CCAE-2009).

Several methodological improvements were applied to the Structural Business Statistics in 2016 as part of the Project for the integration of the structural economic surveys.

The lack of uniformity described means it would not be appropriate to calculate the year-over-year variation for these groups of activities for the mentioned years.

From 2019, the results for Spain are shown using the statistical companies unit, while for Catalonia the results continue to be shown in legal units.

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