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Purchases and outsourcing. By activity groups and geographic destination of sales

Industrial companies. Turnover. By activity group CCAE-2009 and geographic destination of sales 2012
Catalonia Rest of Spain Abroad Total
Total industry 36,417,843 50,594,871 39,804,401 126,817,114
Extraction industries, oil refining 271,243 7,012,802 1,138,678 8,422,723
Industries of food products 8,935,422 7,836,783 4,413,405 21,185,609
Production of beverages and of tobacco products 1,405,687 977,227 435,750 2,818,664
Manufacture of textiles, leather, footwear. Tailoring 1,416,380 1,375,697 1,499,256 4,291,332
Manufacture of wood and cork-based products, except furniture; basketry 462,384 216,273 181,437 860,094
Manufacture of paper and graphic arts 2,212,185 1,748,994 1,320,976 5,282,155
Chemicals industries 3,344,294 6,448,573 7,272,217 17,065,084
Manufacture of pharmaceutical products 1,154,261 2,209,671 2,580,772 5,944,703
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products 1,419,176 1,289,820 1,593,585 4,302,580
Other non-metal mineral products industries 837,926 685,559 504,088 2,027,573
Metallurgy 1,243,864 896,639 1,853,294 3,993,796
Manufacture of steel products, except machinery and equipment 3,251,037 1,624,103 1,810,778 6,685,918
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical material and equipment 1,218,096 2,036,040 1,965,241 5,219,376
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified 1,115,899 967,188 1,965,833 4,048,920
Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 1,915,569 2,548,928 8,859,894 13,324,391
Manufacture of other transport equipment, except motor vehicles 104,790 149,987 276,626 531,403
Furniture making and other manufacturing industries 628,452 612,179 656,890 1,897,521
Repair and installation of machinery and equipment 739,705 278,407 267,764 1,285,875
Electricity and gas production and supply 2,703,716 11,202,677 1,136,617 15,043,009
Water supply; sanitation and waste management 2,037,757 477,328 71,301 2,586,386
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the INE's Industrial survey of companies.

Last update: March 4, 2014.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Geographic destination of sales
Distribution of the company's total amount of turnover between three geographical markets: Spain, the rest of the European Union and the rest of the world.
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.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.