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Main results. By activity groups

Total industry. Main results. By sections CCAE-2009 2014
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Number of establishments 253 33,207 1,401 798 35,659 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Establishments with 50 employees or more 6 1,301 18 78 1,403 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available z Category not applicable
Employed persons 3,729 386,131 6,070 26,502 422,432 1,931,972 21.9
Operating revenues 7,195,920 105,381,174 14,727,759 3,504,722 130,809,575 584,849,697 22.4
Net turnover 6,964,957 102,540,283 14,456,005 3,317,239 127,278,483 571,921,638 22.3
Net sales of products 5,706,747 86,052,292 6,999,632 1,220,034 99,978,706 454,966,257 22.0
Net sales of merchandise 1,175,687 10,948,325 5,645,183 113,521 17,882,715 74,571,962 24.0
Provision of services 82,523 5,539,666 1,811,190 1,983,684 9,417,063 42,383,418 22.2
Treballs realitzats per a l'immobilitzat 10,896 345,756 52,949 22,776 432,376 1,874,991 23.1
Subsidies, donations and legacies 2,145 127,856 76,659 60,513 267,173 2,268,703 11.8
Other operating income 217,923 2,367,280 142,146 104,195 2,831,543 8,784,366 32.2
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise -68,165 112,072 -1,834 -202 41,870 611,870 6.8
Inventory variation of products -63,359 48,852 35 158 -14,314 620,560 -2.3
Operating expenses 7,189,275 100,763,862 14,063,873 3,245,863 125,262,874 557,695,501 22.5
Net purchases of raw materials 4,877,118 48,734,909 3,700,093 426,350 57,738,471 261,712,276 22.1
Net purchases of other supplies 69,424 4,770,882 376,203 279,982 5,496,490 29,456,971 18.7
Net purchases of merchandise 1,116,619 7,788,891 4,372,406 57,114 13,335,031 55,952,552 23.8
Work done by other companies 17,853 3,408,096 2,483,965 368,137 6,278,050 35,636,959 17.6
Personnel costs 207,840 15,038,901 577,335 985,370 16,809,446 69,658,642 24.1
Outsourcing 472,535 16,518,793 1,051,688 696,404 18,739,421 72,676,122 25.8
Other operating costs 427,886 4,503,390 1,502,183 432,507 6,865,966 32,601,980 21.1
Gross investment in material assets 135,910 2,919,797 458,633 116,351 3,630,691 18,072,998 20.1
Gross investment in intangible assets 11,469 480,473 57,043 56,989 605,975 2,159,555 28.1
Result of the financial year 63,431 3,687,790 528,095 -83,642 4,195,674 20,102,145 20.9
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the INE's Industrial survey of companies.
Note: 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.
(z) Category not applicable.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: March 29, 2016.

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.