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Gross investments in material assets in services. By activity group

Gross investments in material assets in services. By activity group (CCEA-93) Catalonia
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
Sale, maintenance and reparation of motor vehicles 263,001 299,963 240,271 238,397 233,579 255,571 264,618 274,291
Wholesale and intermediate, except motor vehicles 1,092,310 959,317 996,830 1,160,583 805,477 940,677 806,364 921,795
Retail except motor vehicles; reparations 988,244 913,584 603,111 768,922 803,321 686,176 728,942 775,793
Hotels, camp sites and other short duration accommodation 350,311 311,932 263,197 329,327 280,363 304,366 229,532 387,359
Catering 247,014 222,513 210,586 203,771 267,242 223,590 184,996 183,397
Travel agencies and tour operators 18,100 20,649 7,483 15,436 19,154 10,371 14,262 15,726
Transport of travellers 356,605 473,320 243,372 594,535 280,038 273,292 291,685 181,679
Transports of goods 344,676 281,919 311,815 221,618 176,891 212,371 226,263 232,409
Transport related activities 1,531,089 821,729 821,604 711,550 718,371 542,363 529,517 517,136
Post and courier activities 46,586 37,397 22,286 36,421 44,225 35,004 33,561 20,919
Telecommunications 317,990 261,663 530,490 443,836 304,766 413,975 850,219 715,770
IT activities 138,334 18,881 120,842 83,688 80,574 94,602 15,521 80,388
Real estate activities 3,228,629 3,969,859 3,445,052 2,483,385 2,343,589 2,391,665 1,420,391 1,323,073
Renting activities 595,333 498,604 692,686 682,456 532,028 420,477 425,280 377,013
Research and development 38,193 -5,988 36,800 21,872 47,925 38,932 12,059 6,878
Legal, accounting and business management activities 316,439 208,343 218,532 267,067 131,445 208,279 191,831 232,079
Market research and public opinion polls 13,966 4,447 12,573 25,351 19,987 5,679 5,540 30,824
Technical services 154,578 310,080 193,007 123,092 113,902 99,317 92,325 87,980
Advertising 130,073 101,098 22,371 -140,573 103,066 43,450 124,309 52,613
Personal selection 7,569 6,150 3,483 4,274 2,765 3,196 7,621 9,251
Research and security services 9,752 26,349 3,874 16,936 7,242 6,651 7,714 26,342
Cleaning industrial activities 26,696 13,831 10,519 23,996 11,743 21,994 30,432 23,071
Diverse business activities 548,147 130,951 160,182 108,924 89,609 72,296 256,045 209,766
Audiovisual services 70,617 99,407 29,775 74,003 120,189 83,148 71,384 77,571
Other recreative, cultural and sports activities 275,920 442,337 448,598 272,778 278,315 190,691 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Personal service diverse activities 90,112 81,513 71,899 71,157 39,007 65,889 62,191 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
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.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Gross investments in material assets in services. By activity group (CCEA-93) Spain
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
Sale, maintenance and reparation of motor vehicles 2,740,741 2,883,913 2,495,863 2,446,663 2,368,102 2,313,783 2,021,815 1,962,894
Wholesale and intermediate, except motor vehicles 7,176,970 6,683,712 6,434,947 6,947,801 5,985,055 5,832,439 6,289,715 5,097,019
Retail except motor vehicles; reparations 6,756,016 6,743,625 5,477,956 5,890,482 5,682,829 5,310,571 5,318,657 4,752,830
Hotels, camp sites and other short duration accommodation 2,581,499 2,495,085 2,416,475 2,498,863 2,456,601 2,426,635 2,389,188 2,046,409
Catering 1,734,721 1,732,914 1,379,631 1,289,330 1,087,877 1,107,271 1,226,438 1,355,804
Travel agencies and tour operators 118,919 119,847 106,429 111,840 101,128 93,965 114,400 101,667
Transport of travellers 2,943,681 3,355,266 2,890,384 3,325,566 2,349,440 2,389,838 2,182,131 1,988,785
Transports of goods 2,544,118 2,317,769 2,096,997 2,039,757 2,114,270 1,975,800 2,021,802 2,080,199
Transport related activities 7,745,270 3,997,057 3,515,715 4,409,585 4,486,671 4,985,646 2,553,370 2,055,177
Post and courier activities 289,613 287,397 257,965 259,779 279,827 244,039 230,302 191,991
Telecommunications 3,560,434 3,469,746 3,889,785 3,231,686 2,758,560 4,004,810 5,631,109 6,404,562
IT activities 788,707 655,583 551,811 536,333 493,126 617,309 478,144 426,093
Real estate activities 26,234,327 23,430,126 18,957,608 15,178,073 14,147,339 11,892,143 9,263,959 7,972,987
Renting activities 7,065,972 6,768,559 5,492,775 5,806,691 4,794,199 4,081,386 3,529,803 3,155,602
Research and development 147,934 103,270 175,000 183,725 259,183 214,815 148,048 80,597
Legal, accounting and business management activities 1,528,470 1,114,524 1,025,612 903,934 970,014 1,074,120 969,762 1,056,791
Market research and public opinion polls 45,748 19,867 81,492 63,963 85,109 68,492 59,920 76,677
Technical services 1,246,793 1,613,189 1,102,782 834,707 662,039 878,112 683,913 559,654
Advertising 421,988 337,680 268,478 207,331 291,705 213,345 293,369 259,427
Personal selection 35,779 27,483 21,184 22,646 21,995 29,450 42,306 40,460
Research and security services 73,218 116,051 76,582 120,614 93,322 85,518 62,245 66,946
Cleaning industrial activities 159,752 169,796 133,794 134,209 115,591 117,154 110,069 122,594
Diverse business activities 1,525,486 1,476,969 842,056 635,539 868,986 638,248 834,562 1,155,040
Audiovisual services 480,292 568,433 454,232 354,061 511,717 538,577 638,938 644,863
Other recreative, cultural and sports activities 1,694,101 2,364,935 1,653,877 1,461,801 1,337,773 1,476,197 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Personal service diverse activities 496,594 496,881 382,483 392,868 328,696 362,046 300,771 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Millions of euros.
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: July 1, 2009.

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
Hotel business55, 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

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

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.

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.