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Main results. By activity groups

Industrial sector. Main results. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) 2021
Extraction industries Manufacturing industries Prod. & distr. electric energy and gas Water supply, sanitation waste manag't Catalonia Spain
Establishments (number) 211 37,456 1,740 1,297 40,704 221,462
Employed persons (number) 3,335 455,512 5,655 32,899 497,401 2,361,067
Operating income 6,672,723 131,810,260 16,797,724 4,745,155 160,025,862 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Turnover 6,369,185 128,132,103 16,454,897 4,492,177 155,448,362 734,025,917
Net sales of products 5,105,493 109,710,840 3,636,603 1,784,679 120,237,615 548,506,293
Net sales of merchandise 1,156,172 10,995,292 10,825,300 326,658 23,303,422 128,183,050
Provision of services 107,520 7,425,973 1,992,994 2,380,839 11,907,326 57,336,574
Work done for the asset 13,990 718,909 57,691 70,613 861,203 2,977,799
Operating subsidies 66,537 441,796 86,867 39,919 635,119 4,585,028
Other operating income 223,011 2,517,452 198,269 142,446 3,081,178 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 137,669 1,198,713 100,152 -8,283 1,428,251 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress 125,342 796,870 12,391 4,727 939,330 5,512,786
Operating expenses 6,681,856 126,413,327 15,219,462 4,453,975 152,768,620 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Consumption of goods 1,152,781 9,199,482 8,136,202 113,479 18,601,944 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 4,373,702 66,898,524 2,256,208 1,198,205 74,726,639 386,451,139
Work done by other companies 22,180 4,669,833 2,295,737 555,712 7,543,462 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Personnel costs 198,198 19,614,234 430,651 1,267,265 21,510,348 90,094,079
Wages and salaries 148,510 15,378,940 335,867 950,860 16,814,177 69,522,922
Social burdens and other personnel costs 49,688 4,235,293 94,784 316,405 4,696,170 20,571,158
Expenditure on external services 583,610 20,767,468 953,160 879,318 23,183,556 95,351,033
Provision for amortizations 209,372 4,110,370 676,298 331,534 5,327,574 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Other operating expenses 142,013 1,153,418 471,205 108,462 1,875,098 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Gross investment in material assets 123,628 4,378,004 673,438 201,286 5,376,356 27,468,390
Gross investment in intangible assets 2,431 936,470 70,323 81,470 1,090,694 3,241,835
Result of the financial year 34,727 4,963,210 1,056,180 228,913 6,283,030 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
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.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

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.