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Informations and communications. Main results. By branches

Informations and communications. Main results. By branches CCAE-2009 Catalonia. 2021
Edition Cinema, video and sound recording Radio and TV Telecomunications Information tech. services Information services Total
Companies (number) 2,651 (b) Break in time series 2,026 (b) Break in time series 216 (b) Break in time series 1,227 (b) Break in time series 11,183 (b) Break in time series 1,268 (b) Break in time series 18,571 (b) Break in time series
Establishments (number) 2,911 2,450 252 1,689 11,850 1,341 20,494
Employed persons (number) 13,574 8,177 1,704 9,852 75,506 8,231 117,044
Operating income 2,074,710 1,221,354 167,160 4,362,220 8,744,990 1,002,990 17,573,424
Turnover 1,942,253 1,130,050 158,036 4,187,520 8,465,041 958,365 16,841,265
Work done for the asset 31,134 44,437 3,250 101,238 154,732 29,875 364,667
Operating subsidies 12,958 30,814 3,813 7,704 25,955 6,361 87,605
Other operating income 88,365 16,053 2,061 65,758 99,262 8,389 279,887
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 8,590 611 110 5,174 599 -2 15,082
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress -240 5,178 -111 -1,498 8,871 34 12,233
Operating expenses 1,913,566 1,148,662 174,078 4,058,861 8,323,621 964,412 16,583,199
Consumption of goods 28,620 166,154 0 481,152 118,707 727 795,360
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 245,879 154,637 2,646 343,301 575,274 58,164 1,379,902
Work done by other companies 284,222 211,423 9,292 798,410 1,071,834 143,873 2,519,053
Personnel costs 606,849 320,834 61,972 736,360 3,671,688 365,848 5,763,551
Wages and salaries 482,005 260,138 48,921 619,468 2,898,464 285,822 4,594,818
Social burdens and other personnel costs 124,844 60,697 13,050 116,892 773,224 80,026 1,168,733
Expenditure on external services 620,101 245,545 79,973 988,194 2,346,348 326,865 4,607,026
Provision for amortizations 103,816 69,364 18,414 624,650 460,680 60,657 1,337,580
Other operating expenses 24,078 -19,295 1,782 86,795 79,090 8,277 180,727
Gross investment in tangible assets 19,963 17,936 3,631 386,400 156,632 9,478 594,040
Gross investment in intangible assets 86,292 67,011 8,957 194,194 469,354 33,089 858,897
Result of the financial year 130,477 93,723 -9,027 58,308 149,538 -3,222 419,797
Units: Thousands of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Structural business statistics in the service sector.
Note: Due to methodological improvements in the calculation of the number of companies, in 2021 there is a break in time series compared to previous years.
(b) Break in time series.

Last update: November 23, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Consumption of goods
Number of purchases of goods (assets acquired by the company to be resold without subjecting them to a transformation process) made by the company during the reference year, less the changes in good inventories. The purchases are accounted for without including VAT and in net terms, in other words, by deducting discounts for immediate payment, sales returns and quantity discounts.
Personnel costs
Total amount of payments made by the company as wages and salaries, compensations, Social Security paid by the company and other social costs (long term retributions via contributory systems or defined allowances, retributions to personnel via patrimony instruments and other social expenses).
Operating expenses
TTotal amount obtained as a result of adding up the different expenses linked to the operations performed by the company: consumption and work performed by other companies, personnel expenses, external services and other operating expenses.
Expenditure on external services
Sum of all the different operating expenses incurred by the company during the reference year, including R&D expenses, leases and fees, repairs and maintenance, services of independent professionals, third-party transport, non-social insurance premiums, banking services and the like, advertising, publicity and public relations, supplies and other services.
Company
The smallest combination of legal units constituting an organisational unit for the production of goods or services, one having certain autonomy in terms of decision-making, principally for allocating the resources it has at its disposal.
Operating revenue
Total amount obtained as a result of aggregating the different revenue associated to the operation.
Gross investment in intangible assets
Amount of expenditure (acquisitions or own production) on research and development activities, investment in IT applications and other intangible assets, such as concessions, patents, licences, trade funds, similar rights and others. These operations are accounted for by their total value without including VAT.
Gross investment in material assets
Amount of the increases in value produced for different types of asset, which originate from purchases of new or used assets from third parties, from the production of one's own assets or from work done by the company or third parties on already existing elements in order to increase production capacity, performance or useful life. This is the gross investment. Until 2007, the investment was calculated as a difference between real increases in the value of capital and the sales of said resources. Investment operations are accounted for as their total value. Purchases are valued at acquisition cost, without including deductible VAT but including transport, installation costs, registration and notary costs and other non deductible taxes. Work done by the company using its resources is valued at cost price. Does not include investments in property made to obtain income or capital gains.
Annual balance
Total amount of the profit or loss for the year as obtained as a consequence of the company's activity.
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 Service Sector, called the Annual Services Survey prior to the reference year 2014, is a sample-based survey that is produced annually by the INE in order to study the economic characteristics of companies in almost all of the market services sector (number of establishments, employment, income and operating costs, etc.) and estimate the main micromagnitudes. Idescat makes a detailed treatment for Catalonia and collaborates with the publishing of questionnaires.

The information on Transportation and storage and Information and communication is presented in two tables: main results and macromagnitudes.

Since 2008, the Annual services survey has been adapted to the new National classification of economic activities (CNAE-2009). This change involves a shift in the series that prevents inter-annual comparison between most sectors and some variables.

The correspondences between the sectors used and the Catalan classification of economic activities (CCAE-2009) is as follows:

CCAE-2009Groups of activities
  
45Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
46Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
47Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
49-53Transportation and storage
55,56Accommodation
58-63Information and communication
68Real estate activities
69-75Professional, scientific and technical activities
77-82Administrative and support service activities
90-93Arts, entertainment and recreation
95,96Other services

Several methodological improvements were applied to the Structural Business Statistics in 2016. The results for 2016 are therefore not strictly comparable with those for previous years.

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