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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) 2018
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Establishments (number) 209 34,907 1,653 1,152 37,921 209,502 18.1
Employed persons (number) 3,484 446,676 5,636 32,116 487,912 2,221,628 22.0
Operating income 6,706,609 124,238,224 15,585,483 4,232,345 150,762,661 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Turnover 6,496,589 121,338,216 15,196,464 3,975,878 147,007,147 657,218,953 22.4
Net sales of products 5,377,715 102,820,046 3,088,210 1,795,816 113,081,787 506,570,156 22.3
Net sales of merchandise 1,008,093 12,108,349 10,110,739 215,629 23,442,810 101,977,309 23.0
Provision of services 110,780 6,409,822 1,997,515 1,964,433 10,482,550 48,671,488 21.5
Work done for the asset 19,164 614,131 55,198 58,418 746,911 2,311,457 32.3
Operating subsidies 14,971 176,009 77,873 64,428 333,281 2,866,672 11.6
Other operating income 175,886 2,109,867 255,947 133,621 2,675,321 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 53,455 454,336 6,379 1,651 515,821 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress 15,982 471,198 11,337 -4,255 494,262 3,933,145 12.6
Operating expenses 6,470,637 118,478,298 15,003,433 3,946,193 143,898,561 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Consumption of goods 991,806 9,688,367 6,709,677 74,125 17,463,975 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 4,415,301 61,685,307 1,588,052 908,349 68,597,009 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Work done by other companies 27,210 4,427,813 3,191,859 502,973 8,149,855 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Personnel costs 196,589 18,021,333 466,651 1,214,780 19,899,353 81,501,519 24.4
Wages and salaries 147,516 14,032,669 339,068 908,687 15,427,940 62,556,827 24.7
Social burdens and other personnel costs 49,073 3,988,664 127,583 306,093 4,471,413 18,944,691 23.6
Expenditure on external services 611,842 19,951,125 1,129,418 832,567 22,524,952 86,887,219 25.9
Provision for amortizations 169,383 3,680,389 830,495 303,065 4,983,332 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Other operating expenses 58,506 1,023,963 1,087,281 110,335 2,280,085 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Gross investment in material assets 157,785 4,172,678 517,757 172,185 5,020,405 25,633,555 19.6
Gross investment in intangible assets 6,232 791,676 64,589 69,657 932,154 2,704,787 34.5
Result of the financial year 208,988 5,495,069 1,066,689 468,587 7,239,333 .. 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, 2020.

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.