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Buildings started. Surface area. By destination. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Buildings started. Surface area. By destination. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Non residential
Residential Establishments Industry Trade & warehouses Offices Hostelry Others (1) Total
2014 656.4 68.7 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.4 69.4
2013 481.5 48.8 0.0 34.3 0.0 6.6 19.4 109.1
2012 811.2 145.8 36.8 93.0 73.6 9.8 156.5 515.6
2011 1,254.2 145.0 108.3 498.5 277.4 96.1 1,519.6 2,644.9
Units: Thousands of square metres.
Source: Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat. Secretaria d'Habitatge i Millora Urbana.
Notes:
(1) Includes agricultural and sports.
Indicator pending update.
Data from the establishment surface, published on April 8, 2014, was revised on April 28, 2014.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: March 11, 2015.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Housing starts
Residential construction project supervised by the college of surveyors.
Establishment
Structurally separate and independent area where economic activities dependent on a company are or could be carried out.

Methodological aspects

The information on buildings started comes from the building work approvals by the Official Associations of Surveyors, Architectural Technicians and Building Engineers of Catalonia.

Since these are administrative data from a set of professional associations, the total construction activity for non-residential buildings in Catalonia is not included.

From 2014 there is a break in the series due to the application of methodological changes.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".