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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. 2018
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) 2,918 1,232 2,730 579 7,464 18,108 33,032
Establishments (number) 3,484 1,623 3,138 676 8,559 19,025 36,505
Employed persons (number) 10,366 60,658 11,155 23,072 122,595 80,235 308,082
Operating income 2,484,109 1,746,795 4,072,226 813,134 3,540,450 4,467,770 17,124,485
Turnover 2,395,723 1,738,392 3,991,517 782,974 3,422,463 4,277,338 16,608,407
Work done for the asset 8,267 1,005 7,678 18,506 2,117 9,027 46,601
Operating subsidies 8,475 3,536 2,222 2,289 85,301 95,339 197,162
Other operating income 71,644 3,863 70,809 9,365 30,570 86,065 272,315
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 58,284 33 915 626 3,280 1,323 64,461
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress 2,859 154 -3,005 1,494 1,089 5,478 8,069
Operating expenses 2,255,663 1,663,392 3,931,629 845,372 3,129,623 4,256,803 16,082,481
Consumption of goods 172,520 486 2,395,414 44,993 46,725 91,177 2,751,316
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 414,230 10,736 10,748 38,747 317,902 377,967 1,170,332
Work done by other companies 174,779 22,291 586,131 41,182 185,039 584,962 1,594,383
Personnel costs 314,688 1,477,362 350,757 579,441 2,069,896 1,664,922 6,457,067
Wages and salaries 248,333 1,113,425 276,197 437,480 1,576,218 1,288,688 4,940,341
Social burdens and other personnel costs 66,354 363,937 74,560 141,961 493,678 376,234 1,516,726
Expenditure on external services 634,832 141,569 495,530 106,254 431,029 1,257,133 3,066,347
Provision for amortizations 520,888 4,777 23,684 19,982 59,551 170,150 799,032
Other operating expenses 23,726 6,171 69,365 14,771 19,480 110,491 244,003
Gross investment in tangible assets 560,707 7,272 9,950 13,529 62,016 100,150 753,625
Gross investment in intangible assets 6,415 7,798 10,025 8,281 8,660 60,802 101,982
Result of the financial year 101,414 35,531 78,673 30,699 75,295 581,486 903,099
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 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.