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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 2017
Spain Rest of European Union Rest of the world Total
Total industry 90,340,111 34,043,416 14,442,314 138,825,841
Extraction industries, oil refining 5,150,358 209,752 148,438 5,508,548
Industries of food products 18,574,495 4,354,958 2,010,469 24,939,922
Production of beverages and of tobacco products 2,402,262 351,078 246,223 2,999,563
Manufacture of textiles, leather, footwear. Tailoring 2,745,108 1,479,499 485,156 4,709,763
Manufacture of wood and cork-based products, except furniture; basketry 720,252 142,393 39,981 902,627
Manufacture of paper and graphic arts 4,079,204 1,038,169 446,621 5,563,995
Chemicals industries 9,694,353 4,570,349 3,292,906 17,557,608
Manufacture of pharmaceutical products 3,089,559 2,127,842 1,037,490 6,254,891
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products 3,000,850 1,492,085 433,168 4,926,103
Other non-metal mineral products industries 1,786,689 424,046 221,434 2,432,169
Metallurgy 2,269,423 1,486,282 376,234 4,131,939
Manufacture of steel products, except machinery and equipment 6,054,083 1,662,252 605,644 8,321,979
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical material and equipment 2,692,151 1,357,722 1,078,161 5,128,034
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified 2,489,065 1,215,539 1,468,617 5,173,221
Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 5,343,535 10,620,248 1,744,050 17,707,834
Manufacture of other transport equipment, except motor vehicles 280,147 239,046 84,069 603,262
Furniture making and other manufacturing industries 1,317,501 394,886 298,746 2,011,133
Repair and installation of machinery and equipment 1,451,765 141,905 192,587 1,786,258
Electricity and gas production and supply 13,438,243 610,556 72,346 14,121,146
Water supply; sanitation and waste management 3,761,067 124,806 159,973 4,045,846
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector.

Last update: November 20, 2019.

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.