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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) 2017
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Establishments (number) 198 33,457 1,614 1,074 36,343 200,826 18.1
Employed persons (number) 3,432 428,090 5,309 32,332 469,163 2,145,753 21.9
Operating income 5,705,441 117,896,118 14,396,073 4,317,517 142,315,149 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Turnover 5,508,548 115,150,301 14,121,146 4,045,846 138,825,841 618,003,012 22.5
Net sales of products 4,614,567 98,113,187 2,874,580 1,880,046 107,482,380 476,174,769 22.6
Net sales of merchandise 795,451 11,123,138 9,324,163 220,187 21,462,939 94,851,132 22.6
Provision of services 98,530 5,913,976 1,922,403 1,945,613 9,880,522 46,977,111 21.0
Work done for the asset 24,184 470,163 53,734 45,309 593,390 2,188,406 27.1
Operating subsidies 11,844 151,902 76,968 92,003 332,717 2,675,636 12.4
Other operating income 160,865 2,123,753 144,225 134,358 2,563,201 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 34,987 399,046 8,006 9,033 451,072 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress 17,182 488,003 15,747 3,927 524,859 2,919,508 18.0
Operating expenses 5,457,865 112,297,818 13,568,401 3,961,984 135,286,068 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Consumption of goods 774,368 8,836,206 5,999,228 103,712 15,713,514 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 3,680,804 59,362,080 1,539,390 905,918 65,488,192 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Work done by other companies 14,660 4,085,137 3,226,263 480,770 7,806,830 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Personnel costs 190,651 16,821,459 410,211 1,173,821 18,596,142 76,866,246 24.2
Wages and salaries 142,672 13,115,645 304,404 879,334 14,442,055 59,054,720 24.5
Social burdens and other personnel costs 47,979 3,705,813 105,807 294,488 4,154,087 17,811,526 23.3
Expenditure on external services 550,498 18,485,058 986,297 866,728 20,888,581 80,709,390 25.9
Provision for amortizations 162,961 3,443,243 815,524 284,686 4,706,414 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Other operating expenses 83,923 1,264,632 591,489 146,350 2,086,394 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Gross investment in material assets 167,428 4,062,394 441,289 162,797 4,833,908 23,770,613 20.3
Gross investment in intangible assets 1,979 838,703 56,448 83,033 980,163 2,598,227 37.7
Result of the financial year 240,418 5,249,043 754,623 264,417 6,508,501 .. 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.
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: November 20, 2019.

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.