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Main aggregates. By activity groups

Industrial sectors. Main aggregates. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) Catalonia. 2024
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Total
Value of Production 8,273,253 145,473,825 9,571,271 5,734,332 169,052,681
Net purchases of raw materials and other supplies 6,891,687 79,328,842 2,365,256 1,535,880 90,121,665
Work done by other companies 13,365 5,579,884 1,999,243 852,506 8,444,998
Outsourcing 625,939 23,995,007 1,154,194 1,047,920 26,823,060
Gross value added m.p. 742,262 36,570,091 4,052,577 2,298,027 43,662,957
Taxes on production and products 92,014 409,716 486,165 73,047 1,060,942
Operating subsidies 130,500 630,125 97,655 50,371 908,651
Gross value added f.c. 780,748 36,790,500 3,664,067 2,275,351 43,510,666
Personnel costs 225,096 22,622,093 501,604 1,538,238 24,887,031
Gross operating surplus 555,652 14,168,407 3,162,464 737,113 18,623,636
Units: Thousand euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector.
Notes:
Due to methodological improvements applied in 2021, the 2021 results for the grouping Water supply; sewerage and waste management are not strictly comparable with those of previous years, although the economic variables of the industry sector as a whole are hardly affected by the change.
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.

Last update: July 1, 2026.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Gross operating surplus
Surplus generated by operational activities after compensating for the work factor. This can be calculated as the difference between gross value added at factor cost and personnel costs.
Gross value added at market prices
It is calculated upon the basis of the production value less intermediate consumption, which is made up of the sum of the consumption of raw materials and other supplies and expenditure on external services.
Gross value added at factor cost
Gross income from operating activities once the effects of the operating subsidies and indirect taxes have been adjusted. It is calculated upon the basis of the gross value added at market prices, deducting the taxes linked to production and products and adding the operating
Production vale (Structural business statistics in the industrial sector)
Number of final goods and services produced by the company during the year. It is equal to the turnover, plus the changes in inventories of products finished and in progress, plus the work performed by the company for its assets (capitalized production), plus accessory income and any other related to current management, less the consumption of goods.

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.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.