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Administrative activities and auxiliary services. Main results. By branches

Administrative activities and auxiliary services. Main results. By branches CCAE-2009 Catalonia. 2016
Rental activities Activities related with occupancy Travel agents and tour operators Security and research activities Services for buildings & gardening Administr., office and auxiliary services Total
Companies (number) 3,404 1,091 2,513 532 7,196 18,741 33,478
Establishments (number) 3,607 1,315 2,865 585 8,054 18,323 34,748
Employed persons (number) 9,480 51,521 10,607 18,885 115,764 73,137 279,395
Operating income 2,071,306 1,414,032 3,180,358 685,378 3,055,229 4,270,298 14,676,601
Turnover 1,991,660 1,405,472 3,103,966 661,841 2,945,393 3,967,457 14,075,789
Work done for the asset 9,669 736 2,880 11,474 2,004 2,179 28,942
Operating subsidies 7,447 3,721 13,214 1,707 79,059 110,652 215,800
Other operating income 62,530 4,103 60,298 10,356 28,773 190,010 356,071
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 11,675 -103 479 670 75,839 31,412 119,973
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress 3,735 67 456 1,426 840 12,548 19,071
Operating expenses 1,828,697 1,353,618 3,082,191 658,580 2,678,104 3,815,865 13,417,056
Consumption of goods 215,616 2,604 1,608,673 5,563 20,371 225,706 2,078,533
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 288,425 4,878 12,396 52,541 205,438 240,933 804,611
Work done by other companies 140,310 16,225 690,804 29,726 184,562 571,382 1,633,009
Personnel costs 257,209 1,206,114 310,892 448,718 1,826,829 1,466,618 5,516,380
Wages and salaries 201,696 910,371 246,761 338,702 1,392,445 1,131,595 4,221,569
Social burdens and other personnel costs 55,513 295,744 64,130 110,016 434,384 335,024 1,294,811
Expenditure on external services 522,276 114,791 401,372 82,860 362,695 1,152,857 2,636,851
Provision for amortizations 421,779 5,162 23,343 18,662 56,008 108,900 633,853
Other operating expenses -16,918 3,844 34,712 20,510 22,202 49,470 113,819
Gross investment in tangible assets 777,054 4,560 12,063 7,117 46,843 129,103 976,740
Gross investment in intangible assets 4,331 1,575 12,215 379 3,158 59,469 81,126
Result of the financial year 152,658 31,257 74,012 7,760 51,965 324,512 642,164
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Structural business statistics in the service 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 18, 2018.

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 about professional, scientific and technical activities, administrative and support service activities; that Idescat has produced using data from the from the INE 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
69-75 Professional, scientific and technical activities
77-82 Administrative and support service activities
90-93Arts, entertainment and recreation
95,96Other services

In 2009, 2010 and 2010, the "Other services" group was partially studied. From the year 2012 onwards, the two branches of this group will be studied again.

List of branches each year studied:

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Repair of computers and personal and household goods (div. 95)    YES    YES    YES   YES    YES
Other personal service activities (div. 96)    YES    –    –    –    YES

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.