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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) Catalonia
Establishments (number) Employed persons (number) Operating income Turnover Net sales of products Net sales of merchandise Provision of services Work done for the asset Operating subsidies Other operating income Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise Inventory variation in products finished and in progress Operating expenses Consumption of goods Consumption of raw materials and other supplies Work done by other companies Personnel costs Wages and salaries Social burdens and other personnel costs Expenditure on external services Provision for amortizations Other operating expenses Gross investment in material assets Gross investment in intangible assets Result of the financial year
2021 40,704 497,401 160,025,862 155,448,362 120,237,615 23,303,422 11,907,326 861,203 635,119 3,081,178 1,428,251 939,330 152,768,620 18,601,944 74,726,639 7,543,462 21,510,348 16,814,177 4,696,170 23,183,556 5,327,574 1,875,098 5,376,356 1,090,694 6,283,030
2020 37,098 483,470 134,637,394 130,916,839 100,473,339 20,132,679 10,310,820 811,898 501,559 2,407,098 -48,218 -279,662 129,850,763 14,403,775 59,656,005 7,333,331 19,854,433 15,292,287 4,562,145 20,615,554 5,232,477 2,755,187 4,723,234 1,012,610 5,158,504
2019 37,868 492,622 152,716,149 148,795,441 114,521,411 23,497,203 10,776,827 819,752 471,269 2,629,687 107,134 434,657 145,610,931 17,278,158 69,289,687 8,037,987 20,880,128 16,180,268 4,699,860 22,897,848 5,132,116 2,095,008 5,297,110 1,096,499 7,180,384
Units: Thousands of 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.
As of 2019, the concept of company changes from legal unit (NIF) to statistical unit company (business group) for data for Spain. Consequently, that year's results are not strictly comparable with those of previous years.

Last update: November 23, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

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 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.

Several methodological improvements were applied to the Structural Business Statistics in 2016; consequently, that year's results are not strictly comparable with those of previous years.

From 2019, the results for Spain are shown using the statistical companies unit, while for Catalonia the results continue to be shown in legal units.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.