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Informations and communications. Main results. By branches

Informations and communications. Main results. By branches CCAE-2009 Catalonia. 2018
Edition Cinema, video and sound recording Radio and TV Telecomunications Information tech. services Information services Total
Companies (number) 2,250 1,719 186 1,478 10,525 959 17,117
Establishments (number) 2,363 1,783 218 1,929 10,920 1,009 18,221
Employed persons (number) 12,779 7,700 5,043 10,337 61,797 6,411 104,067
Operating income 1,949,045 1,831,888 481,116 5,219,914 7,148,517 617,550 17,248,030
Turnover 1,851,933 1,704,072 186,891 4,814,934 6,924,212 597,662 16,079,704
Work done for the asset 13,566 31,333 541 85,176 111,025 8,059 249,699
Operating subsidies 12,713 71,870 284,318 249,187 21,667 4,200 643,955
Other operating income 70,834 24,612 9,366 70,617 91,615 7,629 274,672
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 19,384 1,553 -102 -1,648 8,160 -452 26,896
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress -1,086 1,971 2,376 -206 7,420 89 10,564
Operating expenses 1,861,912 1,701,371 562,349 4,470,938 6,902,706 439,246 15,938,522
Consumption of goods 264,708 732,412 2,731 548,438 221,411 17,029 1,786,730
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 115,241 65,787 61,804 624,266 452,145 25,358 1,344,601
Work done by other companies 254,834 211,345 20,689 979,369 1,054,942 54,692 2,575,872
Personnel costs 543,773 263,637 294,947 580,554 2,666,972 249,998 4,599,881
Wages and salaries 433,933 214,060 236,331 462,681 2,103,870 197,088 3,647,962
Social burdens and other personnel costs 109,840 49,577 58,616 117,873 563,102 52,909 951,918
Expenditure on external services 560,079 305,768 152,030 1,028,978 1,944,446 194,628 4,185,928
Provision for amortizations 72,214 113,584 28,140 591,363 341,244 26,416 1,172,960
Other operating expenses 51,064 8,836 2,009 117,969 221,546 -128,874 272,550
Gross investment in tangible assets 11,228 18,103 12,651 283,825 114,854 13,015 453,676
Gross investment in intangible assets 56,817 50,924 18,490 33,355 251,408 5,980 416,974
Result of the financial year 57,929 109,365 -29,790 359,201 17,310 175,423 689,437
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Structural business statistics in the service sector.

Last update: November 30, 2020.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Consumption of goods
Number of purchases of goods (assets acquired by the company to be resold without subjecting them to a transformation process) made by the company during the reference year, less the changes in good inventories. The purchases are accounted for without including VAT and in net terms, in other words, by deducting discounts for immediate payment, sales returns and quantity discounts.
Personnel costs
Total amount of payments made by the company as wages and salaries, compensations, Social Security paid by the company and other social costs (long term retributions via contributory systems or defined allowances, retributions to personnel via patrimony instruments and other social expenses).
Operating expenses
TTotal amount obtained as a result of adding up the different expenses linked to the operations performed by the company: consumption and work performed by other companies, personnel expenses, external services and other operating expenses.
Expenditure on external services
Sum of all the different operating expenses incurred by the company during the reference year, including R&D expenses, leases and fees, repairs and maintenance, services of independent professionals, third-party transport, non-social insurance premiums, banking services and the like, advertising, publicity and public relations, supplies and other services.
Company
The smallest combination of legal units constituting an organisational unit for the production of goods or services, one having certain autonomy in terms of decision-making, principally for allocating the resources it has at its disposal.
Operating revenue
Total amount obtained as a result of aggregating the different revenue associated to the operation.
Gross investment in intangible assets
Amount of expenditure (acquisitions or own production) on research and development activities, investment in IT applications and other intangible assets, such as concessions, patents, licences, trade funds, similar rights and others. These operations are accounted for by their total value without including VAT.
Gross investment in material assets
Amount of the increases in value produced for different types of asset, which originate from purchases of new or used assets from third parties, from the production of one's own assets or from work done by the company or third parties on already existing elements in order to increase production capacity, performance or useful life. This is the gross investment. Until 2007, the investment was calculated as a difference between real increases in the value of capital and the sales of said resources. Investment operations are accounted for as their total value. Purchases are valued at acquisition cost, without including deductible VAT but including transport, installation costs, registration and notary costs and other non deductible taxes. Work done by the company using its resources is valued at cost price. Does not include investments in property made to obtain income or capital gains.
Annual balance
Total amount of the profit or loss for the year as obtained as a consequence of the company's activity.
Changes in inventories of raw materials, other supplies and goods
Amount corresponding to the difference between the final inventories and initial inventories of raw materials, other supplies and goods. These inventories are valued at acquisition cost.
Changes in inventories in products finished and in progress
Amount corresponding to the difference between the final and initial inventories of the different products (finished, semi-finished and in progress, by-products, waste and recovered materials) manufactured by the company. These inventories are valued at production cost.
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 Service Sector, called the Annual Services Survey prior to the reference year 2014, is a sample-based survey that is produced annually by the INE in order to study the economic characteristics of companies in almost all of the market services sector (number of establishments, employment, income and operating costs, etc.) and estimate the main micromagnitudes. Idescat makes a detailed treatment for Catalonia and collaborates with the publishing of questionnaires.

The information on Transportation and storage and Information and communication is presented in two tables: main results and macromagnitudes.

Since 2008, the Annual services 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.