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Administrative activities and auxiliary services. Main results. By branches

Administrative activities and auxiliary services. Main results. By branches CCAE-2009 Catalonia. 2021
Rental activities Activities related with occupancy Travel agents and tour operators Security and research activities Services for buildings & gardening Administr., office and auxiliary services Total
Companies (number) 3,782 (b) Break in time series 2,068 (b) Break in time series 2,462 (b) Break in time series 688 (b) Break in time series 8,777 (b) Break in time series 26,743 (b) Break in time series 44,520 (b) Break in time series
Establishments (number) 4,711 2,932 3,084 851 9,359 29,015 49,951
Employed persons (number) 11,442 61,462 9,560 24,153 119,333 79,573 305,522
Operating income 2,736,512 2,125,474 1,577,288 987,220 3,713,977 4,460,398 15,600,868
Turnover 2,597,931 2,112,184 1,483,883 940,706 3,638,515 4,258,617 15,031,835
Work done for the asset 11,096 1,216 6,370 33,154 3,125 11,398 66,358
Operating subsidies 19,662 6,119 55,248 3,408 32,108 57,126 173,671
Other operating income 107,823 5,955 31,787 9,952 40,228 133,257 329,003
Invent. var. prim. mat., supplies and merchandise 5,309 -116 430 3,231 -1,718 11,304 18,440
Inventory variation in products finished and in progress 1,390 498 23 713 2,758 871 6,254
Operating expenses 2,460,737 2,025,458 1,666,153 988,285 3,253,512 4,298,079 14,692,223
Consumption of goods 120,916 465 824,397 27,594 6,544 4,507 984,424
Consumption of raw materials and other supplies 484,088 23,262 87,158 61,844 437,586 376,121 1,470,060
Work done by other companies 188,755 103,513 181,284 64,835 168,686 438,807 1,145,879
Personnel costs 345,352 1,731,322 234,538 649,776 2,116,822 2,057,182 7,134,992
Wages and salaries 267,752 1,314,739 176,614 487,062 1,618,281 1,444,036 5,308,485
Social burdens and other personnel costs 77,599 416,583 57,924 162,714 498,540 613,146 1,826,507
Expenditure on external services 672,874 154,420 287,394 141,043 438,185 1,315,696 3,009,612
Provision for amortizations 640,667 5,439 21,210 24,611 63,593 112,098 867,618
Other operating expenses 8,083 7,036 30,172 18,583 22,096 -6,332 79,638
Gross investment in tangible assets 889,344 3,536 6,703 13,118 49,565 88,035 1,050,300
Gross investment in intangible assets 12,371 2,295 9,983 2,413 5,737 56,529 89,328
Result of the financial year 144,083 20,341 -89,874 46,938 239,793 2,029,935 2,391,216
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 about professional, scientific and technical activities, administrative and support service activities; that Idescat has produced using data from the from the INE 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
69-75 Professional, scientific and technical activities
77-82 Administrative and support service activities
90-93Arts, entertainment and recreation
95,96Other services

In 2009, 2010 and 2010, the "Other services" group was partially studied. From the year 2012 onwards, the two branches of this group will be studied again.

List of branches each year studied:

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Repair of computers and personal and household goods (div. 95)    YES    YES    YES   YES    YES
Other personal service activities (div. 96)    YES    –    –    –    YES

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.