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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By sections CCAE-2009 2015
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Number of establishments 195 32,860 1,382 879 35,317 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Establishments with 50 employees or more 7 1,340 12 82 1,442 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Employed persons 3,404 400,434 5,798 30,908 440,544 1,984,105 22.2
Operating revenues 5,660,361 110,638,127 14,656,572 3,941,031 134,896,090 595,361,169 22.7
Net turnover 5,457,434 108,132,207 14,325,705 3,712,813 131,628,160 582,357,233 22.6
Net sales of products 4,481,002 92,509,177 6,369,191 1,440,162 104,799,532 452,921,464 23.1
Net sales of merchandise 861,369 10,186,401 5,981,064 206,035 17,234,870 86,731,059 19.9
Provision of services 115,063 5,436,628 1,975,450 2,066,616 9,593,758 42,704,710 22.5
Work done for the asset 12,627 449,122 81,279 52,877 595,906 2,183,358 27.3
Subsidies, donations and legacies 14,994 160,668 96,040 66,813 338,516 2,785,547 12.2
Other operating income 175,305 1,896,131 153,547 108,527 2,333,510 8,035,032 29.0
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise -75,755 451,081 -12,510 -4,569 358,247 721,639 49.6
Inventory variation of products -78,996 323,463 -26,640 27,037 244,865 1,674,437 14.6
Operating expenses 5,176,936 106,307,756 13,649,012 3,714,427 128,848,131 565,499,190 22.8
Net purchases of raw materials 3,366,094 56,336,363 3,466,739 847,359 64,016,555 279,191,348 22.9
Net purchases of other supplies .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Net purchases of merchandise 780,755 7,906,149 3,850,388 88,841 12,626,133 66,746,244 18.9
Work done by other companies 15,652 3,880,517 3,242,149 434,827 7,573,145 37,323,777 20.3
Personnel costs 201,201 15,699,508 575,054 1,146,095 17,621,857 71,456,579 24.7
Outsourcing 558,145 17,850,041 990,901 796,051 20,195,138 76,935,921 26.2
Other operating costs 255,089 4,635,179 1,523,780 401,254 6,815,303 33,845,321 20.1
Gross investment in material assets 229,437 3,404,202 585,994 141,975 4,361,607 20,552,881 21.2
Gross investment in intangible assets 20,205 590,193 110,668 67,780 788,846 2,795,262 28.2
Result of the financial year 235,192 3,819,769 490,582 161,620 4,707,164 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector.
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.
For 2015, the data corresponding to "Net purchases of raw materials" also includes "Net purchases of other supplies", due to the simplification of the survey in question.
(z) Category not applicable.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: December 19, 2017.

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.