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Foreign Investment. By activity branches

Foreign Investment. By activity branches Catalonia. 4th quarter 2013
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % quarter % accumulated
Total 1,536.6 176.4 13.0 33.6
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 0.3 -1.0 -75.7 31.9
Mining industries 1.2 0.0 2.0 -29.0
Manufacturing industries 967.7 463.9 92.1 15.2
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 0.0 0.0 286.9 -99.9
Water, sewers and waste management 0.0 -58.5 -100.0 -91.7
Construction 32.8 -8.9 -21.4 36.6
Wholesale and retail trade 130.5 -7.9 -5.7 -13.7
Transport and storage 22.2 21.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Hotel and food services 30.9 15.2 96.4 80.5
Information and communications 63.5 38.1 149.9 429.0
Financial activities and insurance 8.8 -23.2 -72.6 119.9
Real estate activities 124.2 57.5 86.4 41.2
Professional, scientific and technical activities 129.2 -216.6 -62.6 -35.1
Administrative and support service activities 11.9 6.5 121.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Education 0.1 0.0 -5.8 -9.9
Health and social services 12.7 12.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 79.7
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 0.6 -121.9 -99.5 -91.6
Other services 0.1 -1.3 -91.6 -94.7
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism.
Note: Provisional data.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Foreign Investment. By activity branches Spain. 4th quarter 2013
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % quarter % accumulated
Total 7,036.2 749.2 11.9 15.9
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 28.4 17.0 147.8 -5.3
Mining industries 95.1 88.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -9.4
Manufacturing industries 1,500.4 -631.4 -29.6 -39.1
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 1,138.6 1,082.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 28.0
Water, sewers and waste management 153.0 94.5 161.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Construction 717.4 127.2 21.6 32.1
Wholesale and retail trade 439.5 157.8 56.0 17.0
Transport and storage 685.3 611.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Hotel and food services 112.8 62.2 122.9 347.5
Information and communications 123.9 -205.3 -62.4 15.4
Financial activities and insurance 646.0 -181.1 -21.9 34.8
Real estate activities 1,050.5 -19.8 -1.9 21.2
Professional, scientific and technical activities 227.0 -177.5 -43.9 -38.0
Administrative and support service activities 20.7 -157.9 -88.4 -27.6
Education 33.9 -15.4 -31.2 -37.6
Health and social services 44.8 43.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -82.0
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 18.6 -144.2 -88.6 443.5
Other services 0.2 -3.4 -93.2 76.0
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism.
Note: Provisional data.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: March 21, 2014. Revised series on April 12, 2021. Next update: March 20, 2024

Annual data

Methodological note

The definition of direct foreign investment basically follows the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund (5th Balance of Payments Manual) and the OCDE (Benchmark Definition).

The data is based on that declared by investors pursuant to Act 19/2003, dated 4 July, on the legal system for capital movements and economic transactions abroad and measures to prevent money laundering, and the regulations that further implement it (Royal Decree 664/1999, Ministerial Order dated 28 May 2001 and Ministerial Ruling dated 21 February 2002). They do not include financing between companies, reinvested profits (save in the case of capitalisation of loans and/or profits) and investment in real estate.

Gross investment includes direct investment declared to the Foreign Investment Registry (FIR) of non-residents which entails:

  • holdings in unlisted Spanish companies
  • holdings of more than 10% in listed Spanish companies
  • setting up or expansion of branches of foreign companies
  • other forms of investment in organisations or contracts registered in Spain (foundations, cooperatives, economic interest groupings), in which invested capital is greater than EUR 3,005,060.52

Excluded from the data are foreign share holding companies (ETVEs). ETVEs are holding companies set up in Spain whose sole purpose is to hold shares in companies located abroad.

The information is broken down into activity branches by the destination of the investment in accordance with the sections in the new Catalan Classification of Economic Activities 2009 (CCEA-2009).

Foreign investment is obtained from official data published by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism from the Statistics on Foreign Investment in Spain and Spanish Investment Abroad. The data are provisional, given that in the corresponding quarterly updates, information referring to previous periods is modified as a result of operations which were declared in the last period but carried out prior to this.

For each new period published, Idescat updates and reviews the information published by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism for the last 10 years.