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Purchases and outsourcing. By activity groups and geographic destination of sales

Industrial companies. Turnover. By activity groups (CCAE-2009) and geographic destination of sales 2021
Spain Rest of European Union Rest of the world Total
Total industry 101,660,472 33,776,651 20,011,239 155,448,362
Extraction industries, oil refining 6,039,450 137,645 192,090 6,369,185
Industries of food products 20,484,336 4,231,373 4,231,760 28,947,469
Production of beverages and of tobacco products 1,840,773 317,965 623,215 2,781,953
Manufacture of textiles, leather, footwear. Tailoring 2,650,330 1,341,819 664,177 4,656,326
Manufacture of wood and cork-based products, except furniture; basketry 902,549 142,537 62,521 1,107,607
Manufacture of paper and graphic arts 4,612,071 1,051,533 553,869 6,217,473
Chemicals industries 12,238,167 5,557,399 3,855,487 21,651,053
Manufacture of pharmaceutical products 3,801,743 2,247,980 1,475,297 7,525,019
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products 3,762,781 1,558,003 577,759 5,898,543
Other non-metal mineral products industries 2,270,015 447,998 244,533 2,962,546
Metallurgy 2,669,812 1,833,051 641,286 5,144,149
Manufacture of steel products, except machinery and equipment 6,402,705 1,732,667 801,971 8,937,343
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical material and equipment 3,885,515 1,611,131 1,302,455 6,799,101
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified 2,939,386 1,367,859 1,464,189 5,771,433
Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 4,177,289 7,974,908 2,282,904 14,435,100
Manufacture of other transport equipment, except motor vehicles 299,311 215,622 131,005 645,938
Furniture making and other manufacturing industries 1,665,677 417,102 308,992 2,391,771
Repair and installation of machinery and equipment 1,907,840 153,015 198,425 2,259,280
Electricity and gas production and supply 15,003,974 1,248,310 202,614 16,454,897
Water supply; sanitation and waste management 4,106,750 188,734 196,693 4,492,177
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Structural Business Statistics in the Industrial Sector.
Note: 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.

Last update: November 23, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Geographic destination of sales
Distribution of the company's total amount of turnover between three geographical markets: Spain, the rest of the European Union and the rest of the world.
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.

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

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