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

Industrial companies. Turnover. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) and geographic destination of sales 2016
Spain Rest of European Union Rest of the world Total
Total industry 84,993,848 31,484,911 13,523,609 130,002,368
Extraction industries, oil refining 3,999,336 183,483 136,170 4,318,988
Industries of food products 17,668,386 3,845,204 1,897,431 23,411,022
Production of beverages and of tobacco products 2,383,221 357,983 136,044 2,877,247
Manufacture of textiles, leather, footwear. Tailoring 2,894,226 1,383,934 461,976 4,740,137
Manufacture of wood and cork-based products, except furniture; basketry 616,363 133,379 37,212 786,954
Manufacture of paper and graphic arts 3,944,305 994,213 459,395 5,397,913
Chemicals industries 9,456,909 4,299,427 3,074,138 16,830,475
Manufacture of pharmaceutical products 3,438,426 2,132,827 1,054,251 6,625,503
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products 2,929,714 1,365,784 398,352 4,693,851
Other non-metal mineral products industries 1,673,082 414,359 240,746 2,328,186
Metallurgy 1,848,695 1,119,458 369,491 3,337,644
Manufacture of steel products, except machinery and equipment 5,090,266 1,542,654 589,740 7,222,659
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical material and equipment 2,600,971 1,261,718 1,104,802 4,967,491
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified 2,375,720 1,049,854 1,408,439 4,834,013
Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 4,784,141 10,009,835 1,425,340 16,219,316
Manufacture of other transport equipment, except motor vehicles 216,307 219,152 81,422 516,881
Furniture making and other manufacturing industries 1,351,696 412,761 273,575 2,038,033
Repair and installation of machinery and equipment 1,389,524 157,047 183,273 1,729,844
Electricity and gas production and supply 12,522,007 505,382 68,493 13,095,883
Water supply; sanitation and waste management 3,810,554 96,457 123,318 4,030,329
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector.
Note: 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.

Last update: December 17, 2018.

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.