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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By sections CCAE-2009 Catalonia
Number of establishments Establishments with 50 employees or more Employed persons Operating revenues Net turnover Net sales of products Net sales of merchandise Provision of services Work done for the asset Subsidies, donations and legacies Other operating income Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise Inventory variation of products Operating expenses Net purchases of raw materials Net purchases of other supplies Net purchases of merchandise Work done by other companies Personnel costs Outsourcing Other operating costs Gross investment in material assets Gross investment in intangible assets Result of the financial year
2012 23,841 1,431 421,106 130,504,064 126,817,114 97,099,112 22,252,867 7,465,136 675,768 399,043 2,612,138 -79,071 -96,478 126,283,371 55,841,062 6,212,340 16,363,967 5,111,732 17,107,092 19,143,107 6,504,072 4,008,224 1,014,672 3,551,729
2011 25,321 1,486 441,443 133,371,138 129,125,534 98,738,173 21,714,485 8,672,876 608,604 565,279 3,071,721 438,695 593,322 129,302,005 56,658,122 6,487,500 16,026,011 6,499,582 17,684,824 19,224,901 6,721,065 3,877,515 1,046,356 3,717,350
Units: The financial figures are expressed in thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the INE's Industrial survey of companies.
Notes:
La secció d'indústries extractives inclou la divisió 19, refinació de petroli, tot i que segons la CCAE-2009 pertany a la secció indústries manufactureres.
The mining industries section includes division 19, oil refining, even though the CNAE-2009 classifies it in the manufacturing industry section. The energy sector (Division 35 of the CCAE-2009) has improved and expanded his coverage in the year 2011 by incorporating into the framework of the survey companies not included above. Therefore, changes in the results compared with previous years are affected by this update of the studied population.

Last update: March 4, 2014.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

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 Industrial Sector , called the Industrial Survey of Companies prior to the reference year 2014, is the main source of information on the industrial sector. This is an annual sample-based survey conducted by the INE in collaboration with Idescat. It offers structural information on industrial companies (establishments, employed population, production, costs and sales) disaggregated by large sectors and by 15 groups of the CCAE-2009.

The survey covers the whole territory of Spain (until 2012 were excluded Ceuta and Melilla) and is designed to offer results by autonomous communities. Idescat performs an annual treatment of the microdata in the survey in order to extend the results for Catalonia, both in terms of the number of branches and the available variables.

In 2008, the Industrial Survey of Companies was reformed in order to adapt it to the new European Regulation on Structural Business Statistics (SBS), the new national Classification of Economic Activities (CNAE-2009) and the new General Accounting Plan, passed in 2007. Some new modifications were also introduced to improve the quality of the survey while maintaining the strategic objective of reducing the burden on informants.

Until the year 2012, the Survey focussed its field of study on industrial companies with at least one employee. From 2013 onwards, the population scope was widened to include industrial companies without employees and the territorial scope was widened to include companies in Ceuta and Melilla. This extension of the populational scope of the sample (selected for Spain as a whole, not by autonomous communities) has led to an increase in the year-over-year variability of the number of companies and establishments. To ensure the comparability of the indicators between the different years, the calculations only take into account industrial companies with employees.

Several methodological improvements were applied to the Structural Business Statistics in 2016; consequently, that year's results are not strictly comparable with those of previous 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.