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Wholesale trade and intermediaries. Employed persons. By branches

Wholesale trade and intermediaries. Employed persons. By sectors 2006
By sex By labour situation
Men Women Salaried Others Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Agricultural matter and live animals 4,044 1,459 4,539 965 5,504 36,076 15.3
Food, beverages and tobacco 32,244 16,241 45,230 3,255 48,485 332,494 14.6
Non food consumer products 38,602 32,420 64,506 6,516 71,022 270,198 26.3
Semi-processed non agricultural products 35,671 13,479 46,227 2,922 49,149 244,156 20.1
Machinery and equipment 34,815 14,851 46,600 3,066 49,666 207,048 24.0
Other wholesale 585 251 495 342 837 2,521 33.2
Trade intermediaries 13,547 6,063 8,257 11,353 19,611 82,355 23.8
Total 159,508 84,764 215,854 28,419 244,274 1,174,848 20.8
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Annual survey of services.
Notes:
People employed on September 30.
A partir del 2008 les dades sectorials corresponen a la nova Classificació catalana d'activitats econòmiques CCAE-2009. Això comporta que no puguin ser comparables amb les dels anys anteriors.

Last update: May 31, 2011.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hours worked by employees
Total number of hours actually worked by employees for production during the reference period. It includes the total number of usual hours and overtime.
Employees
Workers linked to the company by means of a work contract who receive remuneration in the form of wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses, fixed prices or in kind. It includes both permanent and temporary personnel, either full-time or part-time.

Methodological aspects

The main source of trade statistics is the Structural business statistics in the trade sector, called the Annual Trade Survey prior to the reference year 2014, conducted by the INE in accordance with European Union regulations, whereby the statistics for Catalonia are exploited by Idescat. General information is obtained on the evolution of commerce and three main groups or sections that it is made up of:

  • sale and repair of motor vehicles and motocycles
  • wholesale
  • retail

This breakdown presents the tables showing the main results for macromagnitudes and employed persons. In turn, these large groups are subdivided into branches that cover all specialities of commerce. For this smaller breakdown, tables showing macromagnitudes and employed persons are also presented.

Since 2008, the Annual commerce survey has been adapted to the new National classification of economic activities (CNAE-2009). This change involves a shift in the series that prevents inter-annual comparison between most sectors and some variables.

The correspondences between the sectors used and the Catalan classification of economic activities (CCAE-2009) is as follows:

CCAE-2009Groups of activities
  
45Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
46Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
47Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
49-53Transportation and storage
55,56Accommodation
58-63Information and communication
68Real estate activities
69-75Professional, scientific and technical activities
77-82Administrative and support service activities
90-93Arts, entertainment and recreation
95,96Other services

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.

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