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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By sections CCAE-2009 2011
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Number of establishments 177 24,005 399 741 25,321 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Establishments with 50 employees or more 8 1,374 18 86 1,486 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Employed persons 3,964 410,048 7,534 19,897 441,443 2,049,195 21.5
Operating revenues 7,205,386 106,425,389 16,685,640 3,054,723 133,371,138 591,335,116 22.6
Net turnover 6,776,869 103,546,201 16,067,302 2,735,161 129,125,534 575,046,779 22.5
Net sales of products 4,853,726 87,561,663 5,337,187 985,598 98,738,173 450,843,029 21.9
Net sales of merchandise 1,820,339 11,286,711 8,457,534 149,901 21,714,485 85,169,097 25.5
Provision of services 102,804 4,697,827 2,272,582 1,599,663 8,672,876 39,034,652 22.2
Work done for the asset 18,743 454,684 57,286 77,891 608,604 2,230,145 27.3
Subsidies, donations and legacies 51,251 218,046 198,866 97,116 565,279 3,479,502 16.2
Other operating income 358,523 2,206,457 362,186 144,555 3,071,721 10,578,692 29.0
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 110,695 264,785 66,988 -3,774 438,695 1,240,166 35.4
Inventory variation of products 194,973 398,785 47 -483 593,322 1,987,656 29.9
Operating expenses 7,095,318 103,855,839 15,484,129 2,866,718 129,302,005 566,867,343 22.8
Net purchases of raw materials 4,554,391 48,341,251 3,351,071 411,410 56,658,122 255,602,558 22.2
Net purchases of other supplies 66,112 6,120,931 125,865 174,593 6,487,500 33,517,667 19.4
Net purchases of merchandise 1,606,226 7,804,121 6,574,492 41,172 16,026,011 66,238,162 24.2
Work done by other companies 25,279 3,707,314 2,406,532 360,457 6,499,582 28,098,182 23.1
Personnel costs 203,992 16,129,291 552,779 798,761 17,684,824 74,709,457 23.7
Outsourcing 428,070 16,964,563 1,154,746 677,522 19,224,901 75,677,224 25.4
Other operating costs 211,248 4,788,369 1,318,644 402,804 6,721,065 33,024,092 20.4
Gross investment in material assets 140,131 2,729,997 685,743 321,645 3,877,515 20,585,001 18.8
Gross investment in intangible assets 5,093 771,133 212,087 58,043 1,046,356 3,955,534 26.5
Result of the financial year 411,251 1,855,589 1,128,479 322,032 3,717,350 26,380,844 14.1
Units: The financial figures are expressed in thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the INE's Industrial survey of companies.
Note: 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.
(z) Category not applicable.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: March 5, 2013.

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.