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Personnel expenditure in services. By activity group

Personnel expenditure in services. By activity group (CCEA-93) Catalonia. 2004
Value Variation (%)
Sale, maintenance and reparation of motor vehicles 1,413,828 11.7
Wholesale and intermediate, except motor vehicles 6,206,723 9.5
Retail except motor vehicles; reparations 3,803,265 7.0
Hotels, camp sites and other short duration accommodation 785,195 3.5
Catering 1,778,482 14.4
Travel agencies and tour operators 223,602 7.5
Transport of travellers 792,851 5.8
Transports of goods 1,190,869 8.1
Transport related activities 1,330,757 7.8
Post and courier activities 359,164 5.1
Telecommunications 526,557 -2.0
IT activities 1,238,500 -3.5
Real estate activities 1,328,522 14.3
Renting activities 256,440 17.2
Research and development 172,731 7.3
Legal, accounting and business management activities 1,848,327 25.1
Market research and public opinion polls 106,928 2.0
Technical services 836,758 10.1
Advertising 584,112 15.4
Personal selection 960,452 19.2
Research and security services 290,267 14.6
Cleaning industrial activities 899,458 7.5
Diverse business activities 1,020,668 34.1
Audiovisual services 445,424 13.0
Other recreative, cultural and sports activities 838,177 11.5
Personal service diverse activities 342,059 5.9
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the Structural business statistics in the trade sector and the Structural business statistics in the service sector of INE.
Personnel expenditure in services. By activity group (CCEA-93) Spain. 2004
Value Variation (%)
Sale, maintenance and reparation of motor vehicles 7,638,297 11.9
Wholesale and intermediate, except motor vehicles 24,960,431 8.1
Retail except motor vehicles; reparations 20,300,851 10.4
Hotels, camp sites and other short duration accommodation 5,337,480 8.7
Catering 8,959,242 12.7
Travel agencies and tour operators 1,101,359 6.3
Transport of travellers 6,219,848 6.0
Transports of goods 5,919,194 9.6
Transport related activities 5,123,255 8.7
Post and courier activities 1,925,734 4.8
Telecommunications 3,416,125 -5.2
IT activities 6,099,451 2.8
Real estate activities 5,567,207 10.1
Renting activities 1,418,862 13.3
Research and development 623,076 10.9
Legal, accounting and business management activities 6,322,084 11.9
Market research and public opinion polls 368,675 8.4
Technical services 4,753,495 10.8
Advertising 2,049,541 9.7
Personal selection 3,202,114 9.2
Research and security services 2,365,165 13.1
Cleaning industrial activities 4,297,477 6.9
Diverse business activities 4,349,512 19.8
Audiovisual services 2,183,331 8.9
Other recreative, cultural and sports activities 4,164,312 11.7
Personal service diverse activities 1,523,042 11.6
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: INE. Structural business statistics in the trade sector and Structural business statistics in the service sector.

Last update: October 31, 2006.

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

Personnel expenditure takes into account the payments made by the business to its personnel as remuneration for their work, as well as the social payments made by the business. It includes the wage and gross salary, the compensation, the social security contributions, the retributions to the personnel using other types of social spending.

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
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.