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In 2016, the number of marriages that were held in Catalonia was 28,631, an increase of 3.8% compared to the previous year, according to the provisional data on the Marriages Statistics.

Idescat is joining the celebration of the European Statistics Day (20 October), an initiative led by the European Statistical Advisory Committee, with the support of the European Statistics System and the European System of Central Banks.

28.603 people in 2011 have been granted access to the Spanish citizenship. Foreigners from South America and Central accounted of 70,8% of these grants while foreigners from Africa represents the second largest share of all grants issued (23,3%). The Idescat initiates the diffusion of these statistics by the total of Catalonia and the four provinces

The growth forecast of Catalan businesses for the fourth quarter of 2017 register a balance of 15.4 points, according to the Business Climate Survey.

The CPI increased by 2.1% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in September 2017.

The Harmonized Business Confidence Index for Catalonia decreased by 2.2% in the fourth from quarter of 2017 in comparison with the previous quarter.

In 2016 as a whole, the number of foreign tourists arriving in Catalonia increased by 4.4% with respect to 2015, according to definitive data.

In 2016 as a whole, the total expenditure made by foreign tourists whose principal destination was Catalonia increased by 4.0% and the average daily expenditure person grew a 13.4% with respect to 2015, according to definitive data.

The IPI adjusted by working days increased by 6.8% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in August 2017.

Exports grew by 5.0% year-on-year and imports by 9.4% in Catalonia in July 2017.

The number of contributors to Social Security in Catalonia increased by 3.8% in June 2017, with respect to the same period of the previous year, standing at 3,174,998 individuals.

The IVGS at current prices in Catalonia decreased by 1.8% on year-over-year data for August 2017.

The total expenditure made by foreign tourists whose principal destination was Catalonia stood at 2,640 million euro for August 2017, which represented a year-over-year increase of 9.9% compared with the same period a year earlier.

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Catalonia increased by 2.3% on the year-over-year data for August 2017.

The average annual consumer expenditure of Catalan households totalled 30,446 euros per household in 2016, an increase of 0.7% in comparison with the previous year, according to the Statistics on Household Consumer Expenditures.

The number of trips to Catalonia by residents in the rest of Spain showed a 15.5% year-over-year increase in the second quarter of 2017, which meant a total of 1,407,500 trips , 6,023,400 overnight stays, an average stay of 4.3 nights and an expenditure of 517 million euros.

The number of trips made by Catalans increased 24.4% year-over-year in the second quarter 2017. People residing in Catalonia made 8,539.5 thousand trips, involving 24,357.9 thousand overnight stays, an average stay being 2.9 nights, and an expenditure of 1,671 million euros.

The General Retail Trade Indices without service stations, at current prices, increased by 2.2% -on a year-over-year basis-; in Catalonia in August 2017.

In 2016, the number of live births registered in Catalonia amounted to 68,634, representing a decrease of 2.6% in relation to 2015, according to the provisional data of the Births Statistics.

Marc and Martina were once again the most common names for newborn children in 2016.

Idescat has published the dossier "Mobilitat obligada de la població de Catalunya", which is number 21 in the "Dossiers Idescat" collection.

The Industrial Products Price Index increased by 1.7% in year-over-year terms in Catalonia in August 2017.

The number of overnight stays in hotel establishments in Catalonia decreased by 0.5% year-over-year for the month of August 2017, according to the Hotel Occupancy Survey.

The average billing per occupied room or Average Daily Rate (ADR) at hotel establishments increased by a year-over-year 9.9% in Catalonia in August 2017 and stood at 111.61 euros.

In 2016, 352.869 people received some of the five Income Maintenance Benefits allocated to specific collectives in emergency situations. This figure entails a 9.0% decrease with regard to the previous year.

In the first quarter of 2017, the Index of Competitive Position in Prices of the Catalan manufacturing industry with respect to industrialised countries remained stable in year-over-year terms.

The programme for Statistics Day of Catalonia 2017 is now available. This year's edition will be organised by the Servei d’Estadística Aplicada at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and will take place on 6 October at the Room of Events of the Faculty of Sciences, UAB. Building C, Floor -1.

The Turnover Index for the service sector (IASSVN) increased by a year-over-year 5.7% in Catalonia in July 2017.

The Industrial business volume index (IVNI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered a year-on-year increase of 4.2% in Catalonia in July 2017.

The index of new orders for industry (IECI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered an inter-annual increase of 3.9% in Catalonia in July 2017.

For the first time, Idescat is publishing the Social Welfare and Progress Indicators, which show the available significant information on the state and the evolution of welfare and social progress in Catalonia. These statistics were designed by the General Directorates for Budgets and for Economic Analysis at the Ministry of Vice-presidency and of the Economy and Finance, and Idescat.

The labour cost per worker and month stood at 2,773.08 euros in Catalonia as of the second quarter of 2017, 0.1% less than the same quarter in 2016.

In 2016, 230,171 changes of residence from one Catalan municipality to another were recorded, a 5.8% decline with respect to 2015, according to Statistics on on Migratory Movements. 56.5% of the 230,171 internal movements within Catalonia were inter-county movements, resulting in a positive migratory balance for 23 counties and Aran.

The gross domestic product of Catalonia registered a year-over-year increase of 3.0% and a 1.1% quarterly increase in the second quarter of 2017.

The Production Index in the Service Sector (IPROSS) increased by 6.5% on year-over-year data in Catalonia in the second quarter of 2017. Furthermore, the Indicators of Turnover (IASSVN) also showed a 6.4% increased with respect to one year ago.

The CPI increased by 2.0% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in August 2017.

The IPI adjusted by working days increased by 2.4% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in July 2017.

Catalan exports of industrial products of high technological content reached a value of 1,856.2 million euros in the second quarter of 2017, representing an increase of 2.7% on a year-over-year basis.

The IVGS at current prices in Catalonia decreased by 1.1% on year-over-year data for July 2017.

Exports increased by 5.6% year-on-year and imports by 5.2% in Catalonia in June 2017.

The total expenditure made by foreign tourists whose principal destination was Catalonia stood at 2,804 million euro for July 2017, which represented a year-over-year increase of 11.7% compared with the same period a year earlier.

The General Index of Retail Commerce without service stations, at current prices, increased by 1.7% -on a year-over-year basis-; in Catalonia in July 2017.

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Catalonia increased by 6.5% on the year-over-year data for July 2017.

The Industrial Products Price Index increased by 1.4% in year-over-year terms in Catalonia in July 2017.

The number of overnight stays in hotel establishments in Catalonia increased by 2.8% year-over-year for the month of July 2017, according to the Hotel Occupancy Survey.

The average billing per occupied room or Average Daily Rate (ADR) at hotel establishments increased by a year-over-year 10.8% in Catalonia in July 2017 and stood at 106.33 euros.

The Turnover index for the service sector (IASSVN) increased by a year-over-year 7.0% in Catalonia in June 2017.

The index of new orders for industry (IECI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered an inter-annual increase of 6.8% in Catalonia in June 2017.

The Industrial business volume index (IVNI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered a year-on-year increase of 7.4% in Catalonia in June 2017.

The CPI increased by 1.9% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in July 2017.

The total gross labour cost per worker was 32,328.1 euros in Catalonia for the year 2016, a figure that represents a decrease of 0.6% compared to 2015 according to the Annual Labour Cost Survey.

The IPI adjusted by working days decreased by 0.6% on a year-over-year basis in in June 2017.

The total expenditure made by foreign tourists whose principal destination was Catalonia stood at 2.117 million euro for June 2017, which represented a year-over-year increase of 18.5% compared with the same period a year earlier.

The number of overnight stays in rural tourism establishments in Catalonia increased by 27.4% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2017, according to provisional data from the Rural tourism accommodation occupancy survey.

Overnight stays in hotel establishments increased by 6.9% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in 2016, according to definitive data from the Hotel Occupancy Survey.

The number of overnight stays spent at campsites in Catalonia uncreased by 18.7% in the second quarter of 2017 on the year-over-year data, according to the provisional data from the Campsite Occupancy Survey.

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Catalonia increased by 9.7% on the year-over-year data for June 2017.

Exports increased by 15.0% year-on-year and imports by 15.5% in Catalonia in May 2017.

The IVGS at current prices in Catalonia increased by 1.4% on year-over-year data for June 2017.

Catalonia's gross domestic product grew by 2.8%, on a year-over-year basis, during the fsecond quarter of 2017 - according to the Advance of the GDP prepared by the Ministry of the Vice-presidency and of the Economy and Finance in collaboration with Idescat.

The number of overnight stays in the camping sites grew 3.5% in Catalonia in the year 2016, according to definitive data of the Campsite Occupancy Survey.

Unemployment fell in Catalonia by 106,200 people in the second quarter of 2017 with respect to the previous year (-17.6%), standing at 497,400 unemployed people, with an unemployment rate of 13.20%, according to the APS. The number of employed people rose by 89,200 individuals, 2.8% higher than the same period of the previous year, totalling 3,270,500 people. The specific sectors of culture, tourism and ICT grew above the average of Catalonia.

The General Index of Retail Commerce without service stations, at current prices, increased by 2.4% -on a year-over-year basis-; in Catalonia in June 2017.

The expenditure on technological innovation was 3,324 million euros in Catalonia in the year 2015, 6.6% higher than the previous year.

The Gross domestic expenditure on R&D relative to the GDP was 1.52% in Catalonia in the year 2015. This figure, higher than 0.3 points from the previous year.

The Industrial Products Price Index increased by 1.6% in year-over-year terms in Catalonia in June 2017.

In 2016 the largest percentages of population which declared they had difficulty in reaching the end of the month were those in Les Terres de l’Ebre (74.5%), the Central Counties (73.6%), L'Alt Pirineu i Aran (72.6%) and El Camp de Tarragona (71.5%), according to the Survey on Living Conditions (territorial results).

The number of overnight stays in hotel establishments in Catalonia increased by 12.4% year-over-year for the month of June 2017, according to the Hotel Occupancy Survey.

The average billing per occupied room or Average Daily Rate (ADR) at hotel establishments increased by a year-over-year 10.8% in Catalonia in June 2017 and stood at 95.27 euros.

The private centres which provide regulated teaching in Catalonia produced services valued at 2,854 million euros during the 2014-15 academic year, according to provisional data from the Statistics on Financing and Expenditure of Private Education. This figure represents a 9.7% increase with respect to the 2009-10 academic year.

The growth forecast of Catalan businesses for the third quarter of 2017 register a balance of 20.2 points, according to the Business Climate Survey.

The Turnover index for the service sector (IASSVN) increased by a year-over-year 10.8% in Catalonia in May 2017.

The Industrial business volume index (IVNI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered a year-on-year increase of 13.8% in Catalonia in May 2017.

The index of new orders for industry (IECI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered an inter-annual increase of 11.9% in Catalonia in May 2017.

The number of overnight stays in rural tourism establishments increased by 2.8% in Catalonia in 2016, according to definitive data from the Rural Tourism Accommodation Occupancy Survey.

The CPI (base 2016=100) increased by 1.7% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in June 2017.

The Harmonized Business Confidence Index for the third quarter of 2017 in Catalonia rose by 0.9% from the previous quarter.

The IPI adjusted by working days increased by 3.2% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in May 2017.

Idescat presents the publication "Estadística de l'audiovisual a Catalunya 2014".

The total expenditure made by foreign tourists whose principal destination was Catalonia stood at 1.796 million euro for May 2017, which represented a year-over-year increase of 17.5%.

Exports decreased by a year-over-year 2.8% and imports by 5.1% in Catalonia in April 2017.

The gross annual salary per workerin Catalonia was 24,321.57 euros in 2015, 1.6% more than the previous year, according to the Annual Wage Structure Survey.

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Catalonia increased by 16.2% on the year-over-year data for May 2017.

The IVGS at current prices in Catalonia increased by 5.0% on year-over-year data for May 2017.

Idescat publishes the extended results of the Household Projections 2016-2036 on the population resident in family dwellings. Data is provided by household size, sex, broad age groups, according to different evolution scenarios.

The number of contributors to Social Security in Catalonia increased by 3.5% in March 2017, with respect to the same period of the previous year, standing at 3.068.200 individuals.

Idescat publishes for the first time the statistics Tourism of residents in Catalonia. In the first quarter of 2017, residents in Catalonia made 6,411.1 thousand trips, which amounted to 18,608.0 thousand overnight stays, an average stay of 2.9 nights and a declared expenditure of 1,236 million euros.

Idescat publishes for the first time the statistics Tourism in Catalonia of residents in the rest of Spain. In the first quarter of 2017, residents in the rest of Spain made 948.5 thousand trips to Catalonia, which represents a decrease of 8.1% year-over-year.

The General Index of Retail Commerce without service stations, at current prices, decreased by 1.4% -on a year-over-year basis-; in Catalonia in April 2017.

Idescat provides information on real estate cadastre and property tax (IBI), based on data from the Dirección General del Catastro.

The Industrial Products Price Index increased by 2.1% in year-over-year terms in Catalonia in May 2017.

The number of overnight stays in hotel establishments in Catalonia increased by 3.6% year-over-year for the month of May 2017, according to the Hotel Occupancy Survey.

The average billing per occupied room or Average Daily Rate (ADR) at hotel establishments increased by a year-over-year 11.6% in Catalonia in May 2017 and stood at 94.66 euros.

In Catalonia, there were 2,949,700 householdsin 2016, according to the results of the Continuous Household Survey. The most common type of household was that of a single nucleus, which represented 69.7%.

On 22 and 23 June, a delegation of Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) and other organisations forming part of the Statistical System of the country are to visit Idescat.

The Turnover index for the service sector (IASSVN) increased by a year-over-year 1.8% in Catalonia in April 2017.

The Industrial business volume index (IVNI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered a year-on-year decrease of 5.8% in Catalonia in April 2017.

The index of new orders for industry (IECI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered an inter-annual decreases of 4.5% in Catalonia in April 2017.

The school age population (0 to 20 years) will remain stable in Catalonia until 2021 with 1.60 million persons and decline slightly until 2026 (1.56 million).

Idescat updates the standardised mortality rate by age, which has been calculated on the basis of European Standard Population published by Eurostat in 2013. The figure for 2013 has been calculated using information on deaths and populations of the five-year period 2011-2015

Idescat presents the complete life table 2012 for the population of Catalonia, which offers the life expectancy by sex for each ages, and the abridged life table, for Catalonia and the provinces, with five-yearly.

You can already consult the website of the monitoring of the statistical activities included in the Idescat Annual Statistical Action Programme for 2016.

The labour cost per worker and month stood at 2,590.80 euros in Catalonia as of the first quarter of 2017, 1.2% less than the same quarter in 2016.

The official impact factor for 2016 of SORT has been published and stands at 0.812, according to the Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science - Journal Citation Reports).

The technical sessions that Idescat has designed for the second semester of 2017 can now be consulted, as well as the schedule of other training and promotional activities in the field of statistics that have been organised to date.

Journal SORT Volume 41 Number 1 has been published for the period January-June 2017 with the inclusion of eight articles and one invited article.

The gross domestic product has registered a year-over-year increase of 2.6% and a quarter-over-quarter increase of 0.8% in the first quarter of 2017

Idescat has redesigned its website so that it can be viewed from a mobile device and in addition to this has updated its servers to support encrypted connections, thanks to the use of the HTTPS communications protocol.

The contribution of total factor productivity to the growth of the Catalan economy was 1.4 percentage points in 2015.

The CPI (base 2016=100) increased by 2.1% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in May 2017.

Idescat publishes its 2016 Report, with detailed information on its activity throughout the year.

The Indicators of Service Sector Production (IPROSS) increased by 6.1% on year-over-year data in Catalonia in the fist quarter of 2017. Furthermore, the Indicators of Turnover (IASSVN) also showed a 6.1% increased with respect to one year ago.

The ceremony for presenting the awards and diplomas of the 8th Nursery competition for Surveys and Experiments, was held on the 2nd. June.

The IPI adjusted by working days increased by 0.9% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in April 2017.

Catalan exports of industrial products of high technological content reached a value of 1,873.2 million euros in the first quarter of 2017, representing an increase of 20,9% on a year-over-year basis.

The total expenditure made by foreign tourists whose principal destination was Catalonia stood at 1.472 million euro for April 2017, which represented a year-over-year increase of 20.3%.

Exports grew by a year-over-year 17.0% and imports by a 18.2% in Catalonia in March 2017.

The IVGS at current prices in Catalonia decreased by 3.3% on year-over-year data for April 2017.

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Catalonia increased by 16.8% on the year-over-year data for April 2017.

The General Index of Retail Commerce without service stations, at current prices, decreased by 1.4% -on a year-over-year basis-; in Catalonia in April 2017.

The relative indicator of the risk of poverty totalled 19.2% in 2016. The rate was similar to that of 2015, but this stability did not translate to all age groups, as the rate of the risk of poverty for the under 16s improved by 3.9 percentage points, while that of the over 65s worsened by 2.9 points.

The Industrial Products Price Index increased by 2.6% in year-over-year terms in Catalonia in April 2017.

The number of overnight stays in hotel establishments in Catalonia increased by 23.2% year-over-year for the month of April 2017, according to the Hotel Occupancy Survey.

The average billing per occupied room or Average Daily Rate (ADR) at hotel establishments increased by a year-over-year 7.6% in Catalonia in April 2017 and stood at 92.47 euros.

Idescat updates the Non-Economic At Risk of Poverty and Social Exclusion Territorial Indicators with data from 2014 and 2015.

The Turnover index for the service sector (IASSVN) increased by a year-over-year 9.6% in Catalonia in March 2017.

The index of new orders for industry (IECI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered an inter-annual increases of 15.0% in Catalonia in March 2017.

The Industrial business volume index (IVNI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered a year-on-year increase of 15.2% in Catalonia in March 2017.

In the fourth quarter of 2016, the Index of Competitive Position in Prices of the Catalan manufacturing industry with respect to industrialised countries showed a decline of 0.6 percentage points year-over-year.

La Segarra, El Pla de l'Estany and El Barcelonès are the counties that registered the highest rise in income per capita in 2014, of around 3%. The increase in income was registered in a total of 33 counties and Aran, while El Montsià saw the largest decrease of the 8 counties with reduced per capita income, with 2.6%.

The CPI (base 2016=100) increased by 2.8% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in April 2017.

The population of Catalonia on 1 January 2017 amounted to 7,477,131 inhabitants, according to the advance of Population Estimates put together by Idescat.

25.6% of the employed population of Catalonia stated that they had worked at least one Saturday each month in 2016, according to the Active Population Survey.

The Industrial Products Production Index rose by 3.3% in Catalonia in 2016, according to definitive figures.

The IPI adjusted by working days increased by 2.8% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in March 2017.

Exports grew by a year-over-year 7.9% and imports by a 8.7% in Catalonia in February 2017.

The total expenditure made by foreign tourists whose principal destination was Catalonia stood at 1.053 million euro for March 2017, which represented a year-over-year increase of 13.5%.

Catalonia's gross domestic product grew by 2.5%, on a year-over-year basis, during the first quarter of 2017 - according to the Advance of the GDP prepared by the Ministry of the Vice-presidency and of the Economy and Finance in collaboration with Idescat.

The IVGS at current prices in Catalonia increased by 4.7% on year-over-year data for March 2017.

The number of overnight stays in rural tourism establishments in Catalonia decreased by 18.9% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2017, according to provisional data from the Rural tourism accommodation occupancy survey.

The number of overnight stays spent at campsites in Catalonia decreased by 48.2% in the first quarter of 2017 on the year-over-year data, according to the provisional data from the Campsite Occupancy Survey.

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Catalonia increased by 7.0% on the year-over-year data for March 2017.

The General Index of Retail Commerce without service stations, at current prices, increased by 3.9% -on a year-over-year basis-; in Catalonia in March 2017.

Unemployment fell in Catalonia by 83,300 people in the 1st quarter of 2017 with respect to the previous year (-12.6%), standing at 576,700 unemployed persons, with an unemployment rate of 15.28%, according to the APS. The employement rose 2.3% compared to the same period in 2016, totalling 3,197,900 people. Idescat publishes first data from the population employed in the ICT sector which employs 102,100 people in the first quarter of 2017, 3.2% of total employment.

The number of households will continue to increase in Catalonia in the upcoming years, until it reaches a figure of 3.37 million in the year 2036, which represents some 406,000 households more than in 2016, according to the Household Projections 2016-2036.

The registered population in Catalonia on 1 January 2017 was 7,551,285 inhabitants, according to provisional data from the Municipal Population Register. This figure represents a growth of 28,689 people (0.4%) with respect to 1 January 2016.

Work has begun on the collection of information for Survey on Living Conditions 2017.

The Industrial Products Price Index fell by 0.6% in Catalonia in 2016, according to definitive data.

The Industrial Products Price Index increased by 2.9% in year-over-year terms in Catalonia in March 2017.

The number of overnight stays in hotel establishments in Catalonia decreased by 8.5% year-over-year for the month of March 2017, according to the Hotel Occupancy Survey.

The Turnover index for the service sector (IASSVN) increased by a year-over-year 2.1% in Catalonia in Febrary 2017.

The Industrial business volume index (IVNI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered a year-on-year increase of 2.4% in Catalonia in February 2017.

The index of new orders for industry (IECI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered an inter-annual increases of 3.3% in Catalonia in February 2017.

The average billing per occupied room or Average Daily Rate (ADR) at hotel establishments increased by a year-over-year 9.9% in Catalonia in March 2017 and stood at 90.76 euros.