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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) 2016
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Establishments (number) 210 33,463 1,568 1,057 36,298 197,210 18.4
Employed persons (number) 3,656 418,688 5,736 32,044 460,124 2,082,775 22.1
Operating income 4,498,276 111,087,065 13,395,965 4,265,369 133,246,675 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Turnover 4,318,988 108,557,168 13,095,883 4,030,329 130,002,368 571,944,418 22.7
Net sales of products 3,646,963 91,726,874 2,425,389 1,627,859 99,427,085 437,233,327 22.7
Net sales of merchandise 607,386 10,826,443 8,763,284 204,728 20,401,841 89,935,609 22.7
Provision of services 64,639 6,003,851 1,907,209 2,197,742 10,173,441 44,775,482 22.7
Work done for the asset 12,840 422,879 52,763 52,549 541,031 2,041,232 26.5
Operating subsidies 14,991 159,310 76,063 56,558 306,922 2,564,449 12.0
Other operating income 151,457 1,947,708 171,256 125,933 2,396,354 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 139,762 337,112 50,712 9,150 536,736 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress 42,641 195,620 911 4,821 243,993 2,189,402 11.1
Operating expenses 4,333,974 105,241,542 12,357,935 3,918,730 125,852,181 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Consumption of goods 577,998 8,641,590 5,052,003 86,212 14,357,803 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 2,751,042 54,295,376 1,192,065 927,896 59,166,379 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Work done by other companies 11,957 4,029,177 3,241,397 477,356 7,759,887 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Personnel costs 216,954 16,402,041 449,338 1,182,917 18,251,250 73,551,323 24.8
Wages and salaries 165,480 12,813,589 322,950 889,887 14,191,906 56,525,881 25.1
Social burdens and other personnel costs 51,474 3,588,452 126,388 293,030 4,059,344 17,025,442 23.8
Expenditure on external services 511,670 17,667,180 985,124 799,297 19,963,271 76,564,542 26.1
Provision for amortizations 157,684 3,213,172 917,793 300,465 4,589,114 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Other operating expenses 106,669 993,005 520,216 144,588 1,764,478 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Gross investment in material assets 221,249 3,889,574 541,758 137,462 4,790,043 21,466,653 22.3
Gross investment in intangible assets 8,936 604,152 69,436 93,768 776,292 2,498,324 31.1
Result of the financial year 168,557 5,952,812 662,868 99,182 6,883,419 .. 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.
Several methodological improvements were applied to the Structural Business Statistics in 2016. The results for 2016 are therefore not strictly comparable with those for previous years.
(z) Category not applicable.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: December 17, 2018.

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.