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Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) Catalonia. 2024
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Total
Establishments (number) 245 34,988 1,665 1,324 38,222
Employed persons (number) 3,280 465,929 5,717 33,758 508,684
Operating income 8,586,307 158,388,435 17,264,330 5,926,187 190,165,259
Turnover 8,359,740 154,515,131 16,908,028 5,521,204 185,304,103
Net sales of products 7,976,382 129,953,951 4,082,601 2,100,071 144,113,005
Net sales of merchandise 159,852 15,160,315 10,893,176 260,943 26,474,286
Provision of services 223,506 9,400,865 1,932,251 3,160,190 14,716,812
Work done for the asset 16,998 887,018 57,702 128,898 1,090,616
Operating subsidies 130,500 630,125 97,655 50,371 908,651
Other operating income 79,068 2,356,162 200,945 225,714 2,861,889
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise -30,567 271,687 -109,094 1,290 133,316
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress -39,534 217,550 359 15,254 193,629
Operating expenses 8,307,148 150,008,459 15,050,312 5,644,019 179,009,938
Consumption of goods 141,235 12,330,901 7,583,697 151,784 20,207,617
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 6,891,687 79,328,842 2,365,256 1,535,880 90,121,665
Work done by other companies 13,365 5,579,884 1,999,243 852,506 8,444,998
Personnel costs 225,096 22,622,093 501,604 1,538,238 24,887,031
Wages and salaries 166,544 17,551,481 360,577 1,145,670 19,224,272
Social burdens and other personnel costs 58,552 5,070,613 141,026 392,568 5,662,759
Expenditure on external services 625,939 23,995,007 1,154,194 1,047,920 26,823,060
Provision for amortizations 173,174 4,667,158 712,568 380,567 5,933,467
Other operating expenses 236,653 1,484,571 733,750 137,126 2,592,100
Gross investment in material assets 159,631 5,958,632 679,553 274,352 7,072,168
Gross investment in intangible assets 4,524 1,162,517 65,160 156,160 1,388,361
Result of the financial year 149,486 6,912,109 1,516,792 218,702 8,797,089
Units: Thousand euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector.
Note: 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.

Last update: July 1, 2026.

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.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.