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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By sections CCAE-2009 2012
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Number of establishments 153 22,556 325 807 23,841 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Establishments with 50 employees or more 8 1,334 17 72 1,431 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Employed persons 3,994 391,152 7,244 18,716 421,106 1,922,272 21.9
Operating revenues 8,690,234 103,454,502 15,510,033 2,849,295 130,504,064 584,856,547 22.3
Net turnover 8,422,723 100,764,996 15,043,009 2,586,386 126,817,114 570,984,367 22.2
Net sales of products 6,542,559 84,648,688 5,044,534 863,331 97,099,112 438,907,174 22.1
Net sales of merchandise 1,788,371 11,356,532 8,837,659 270,306 22,252,867 95,683,193 23.3
Provision of services 91,794 4,759,776 1,160,816 1,452,749 7,465,136 36,394,000 20.5
Work done for the asset 10,360 542,947 53,002 69,459 675,768 2,349,712 28.8
Subsidies, donations and legacies 28,416 158,317 135,936 76,374 399,043 2,515,742 15.9
Other operating income 228,734 1,988,242 278,085 117,077 2,612,138 9,006,725 29.0
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise -80,769 -19,484 11,933 9,248 -79,071 -365,572 21.6
Inventory variation of products -91,199 -8,275 -194 3,190 -96,478 193,288 -49.9
Operating expenses 8,315,043 100,937,558 14,289,152 2,741,619 126,283,371 561,211,743 22.5
Net purchases of raw materials 5,697,346 46,903,489 2,890,128 350,098 55,841,062 250,811,015 22.3
Net purchases of other supplies 66,920 5,598,333 365,187 181,901 6,212,340 30,728,223 20.2
Net purchases of merchandise 1,585,499 7,632,039 7,045,541 100,887 16,363,967 74,510,685 22.0
Work done by other companies 9,974 3,541,335 1,186,278 374,145 5,111,732 26,723,928 19.1
Personnel costs 209,409 15,578,868 581,124 737,692 17,107,092 71,108,051 24.1
Outsourcing 480,888 16,978,249 1,033,426 650,545 19,143,107 74,394,794 25.7
Other operating costs 265,007 4,705,245 1,187,468 346,352 6,504,072 32,935,048 19.7
Gross investment in material assets 231,977 2,741,381 876,176 158,690 4,008,224 21,183,976 18.9
Gross investment in intangible assets 5,244 732,277 137,661 139,490 1,014,672 3,374,481 30.1
Result of the financial year 281,797 1,761,581 1,395,583 112,768 3,551,729 19,759,238 18.0
Units: The financial figures are expressed in thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the INE's Industrial survey of companies.
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.
(z) Category not applicable.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

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.