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Exports of industrial products. By technological content and groups of products

Exports of industrial products. By technological content and groups of products Catalonia. 2009
Value Variation (%)
Exports of industrial products 39,047.3 -18.1
High technology level 4,786.2 -25.0
Pharmaceutical products 2,888.4 -0.9
IT, electronic and optical products 1,813.4 -43.7
Others 84.5 -65.3
Medium-high technology level 18,407.2 -21.9
Chemical products 6,397.8 -16.4
Material and electronic equipment; machinery and vehicles 11,208.3 -24.5
Others 801.1 -24.5
Medium-low technology level 5,531.8 -19.6
Rubber and plastic material, non metal mineral products and metallurgy 3,595.6 -17.0
Metal products 1,108.5 -21.3
Others 827.7 -27.4
Low technology level 10,322.2 -4.7
Food products, textiles, leather and shoes, wood and paper 9,365.8 -3.8
Others 956.4 -12.7
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
Exports of industrial products. By technological content and groups of products Spain. 2009
Value Variation (%)
Exports of industrial products 142,317.5 -16.6
High technology level 15,552.9 -6.3
Pharmaceutical products 8,093.2 1.8
IT, electronic and optical products 4,658.7 -20.9
Others 2,800.9 1.9
Medium-high technology level 62,800.9 -17.3
Chemical products 13,234.7 -14.5
Material and electronic equipment; machinery and vehicles 47,296.6 -18.5
Others 2,269.7 -4.8
Medium-low technology level 30,813.7 -27.2
Rubber and plastic material, non metal mineral products and metallurgy 18,506.4 -25.3
Metal products 4,689.6 -22.2
Others 7,617.7 -34.0
Low technology level 33,149.9 -7.6
Food products, textiles, leather and shoes, wood and paper 30,724.7 -6.9
Others 2,425.3 -15.3
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.

Last update: March 8, 2010. Revised series on February 7, 2023.

Methodological note

The statistics for technological content (R&D) of industrial products in foreign trade is based on the most recent classification drawn up by the Eurostat of industrial sectors by research and development (R&D) effort. These statistics classify flows of exported and imported goods by the importance of their technological content.

The technological content of an industrial sector is identified by calculating R&D spending as a percentage of the sector's production volume. The concept also takes into not only the sector's own technological effort (direct R&D intensity) but also the technology built into its purchases of intermediate goods and equipment (indirect intensity). This new classification makes it possible to compare the statistical information that it is generated nationally with the one generated in Europe.

The result had been an aggregation of the industrial sectors of the Classificació catalana d'activitats econòmiques 2009 (NACE-Rev 2) in four groups according to its technological intensity: high technological level, high medium, medium low and low. These groups are divided by exports or imports to the European Union of the 27 or to the rest of the world. The values corresponding to Catalonia and Spain are generated.

Idescat has revised the series of exports and imports of industrial products since the first quarter of 1994, following the Classification of products by technological content Eurostat.