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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.

The growth forecast of Catalan businesses for the second quarter of 2017 register a balance of 23.2 points, according to the Business Climate Survey.

The CPI (base 2016=100) increased by 2.5% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in March 2017.

The Harmonized Business Confidence Index for the second quarter of 2017 in Catalonia rose by 2.6% from the previous quarter.

The IPI adjusted by working days increased by 1.0% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in February 2017.

Exports grew by a year-over-year 15.6% and imports by a 13.5% in Catalonia in January 2017.

The number of citizens of Catalonia who habitually reside abroad is 284,374 people as of 1 January 2017, amounting to an increase of 7.7% in comparison with the previous year, according to the Register of Inhabitants Residing Abroad.

The IVGS at current prices in Catalonia decreased by 2.3% on year-over-year data for February 2017.

The total expenditure made by foreign tourists whose principal destination was Catalonia stood at 926 million euro for February 2017, which represented a year-over-year increase of 11.3%.

Idescat launches a new web interface (under test) for the interactive consultation for statistical results, in which it disseminates the Statistics on Foreign Tourism, with an increase of results compared to the ones offered up to now.

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Catalonia increased by 6.0% on the year-over-year data for February 2017.

The General Index of Retail Commerce without service stations, at current prices, decreased by 2.1% -on a year-over-year basis-; in Catalonia in February 2017.

The number of people in Catalonia who had some sort of administrative relationship with Social Security was 5,094,825 in 2015, whether as contributors, pensioners or residents. Of these 3,549,500 were registered for paid employment for at least one day, a figure which is 0.3% less than the previous year.

Idescat has modified the reference date of the Population Estimates and the Demographic Structure Indicators (structure by age, ageing, dependency and average age), replacing 31 December for 1 January.

The Industrial Products Price Index increased by 2.5% in year-over-year terms in Catalonia in February 2017.

The number of overnight stays in hotel establishments in Catalonia increased by 1.1% year-over-year for the month of February 2017, according to the Hotel Occupancy Survey.

The Turnover index for the service sector (IASSVN) increased by a year-over-year 6.5% in Catalonia in January 2017.

The Industrial business volume index (IVNI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered a year-on-year increase of 11.4% in Catalonia in January 2017.

The index of new orders for industry (IECI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered an inter-annual increases of 11.8% in Catalonia in January 2017.

The average billing per occupied room or Average Daily Rate (ADR) at hotel establishments decreased by a year-over-year 5.9% in Catalonia in February 2017 and stood at 99.38 euros.

Idescat has published Comerç amb l'estranger 2015 with information on the Catalan economy's imports and exports abroad.

Idescat publishes the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS), standardised in Catalan, corresponding to Regulation (EU) No. 2066/2016 of the European Commission of 21 November 2016, amending the Annexes to Regulation (EU) No. 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, which establishes a nomenclature of territorial statistical units (DOUE L322 of 29 November 2016).

The Indicators of Service Sector Production (IPROSS) increased by 4.6% on year-over-year data in Catalonia in the fourth quarter of 2016. Furthermore, the Indicators of Turnover (IASSVN) also showed a 3.0% increased with respect to one year ago.

The labour cost per worker and month stood at 2,821.18 euros in Catalonia as of the fourth quarter of 2016, 0.7% more than the same quarter in 2015.

The gross domestic product of Catalonia registered a year-over-year increase of 2.8% and a quarter-over-quarter increase of 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2016. Idescat has expanded upon the results of the Quarterly Accounts by disseminating for the first time GDP aggregates at current prices and in indexes by volumen, and by disaggregating in three branches the activity of the services in Catalonia.

The gross domestic product of Catalonia registered an increase of 3.5% in 2016, reaching a total of 223,629 million euros, according to the Annual Economic Accounts in Catalonia.

The IVGS at current prices in Catalonia decreased by 0,3% on year-over-year data for January 2017.

Idescat participates at the conference New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS 2017), which is held in Brussels from 14 to 16 March, with two communications.

The CPI (base 2016=100) increased by 3.1% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in February 2017.

The General Index of Retail Commerce without service stations, at current prices, increased by 1.0% -on a year-over-year basis-; in Catalonia in January 2017.

Work has begun on collecting the information for the Library Statistics 2016. Field work will be carried out during the second quarter of 2017.

The IPI adjusted by working days decreased by 0.1% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in January 2017.

The Government has approved to extend the collaboration agreement between INE and Idescat to extend the sample of the Survey on Living Conditions in Catalonia for the year 2017.

The exported industrial products of high technology level increased by 6.4% year-over-year in Catalonia in the fourth quarter of 2016 and overall in 2016 the growth of foreign sales was at 8,9%, according to provisional data from the Spanish Central Tax Authority (AEAT).

The total expenditure made by foreign tourists whose principal destination was Catalonia stood at 823 million euro for January 2017, which represented a year-over-year decrease of 0.9%.

Exports rose by 0.6% and imports by 2.4% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in December 2016. In 2016, both exports and imports increased by 2.0%, according to provisional data from the State Tax Administration Agency.

The number of contributors to Social Security in Catalonia increased by 3.6% in December 2016, with respect to the same period of the previous year, standing at 3.035.442 individuals.

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Catalonia decreased by 1.8% on the year-over-year data for January 2017.

On 1 January 2015, the foreign people living in Catalonia, amounted to 1,028,069 people, according to definitive data from the Municipal Population Register, which was a 5.6% decrease when compared to the previous year.

In 2016, the registered population in Catalonia was 7,522,596 inhabitants. By place of birth, 4,880,987 inhabitants (64.9%) were born in Catalonia, 1,348,713 inhabitants (17.9%) in the rest of Spain, and 1,292,896 inhabitants (17.2%) abroad, according to statistics from the Municipal Population Register, on 1 January 2016.

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

The number of overnight stays in hotel establishments in Catalonia increased by 3.7% year-over-year for the month of January, 2017, according to the Hotel Occupancy Survey.

The average billing per occupied room or Average Daily Rate (ADR) at hotel establishments decreased by a year-over-year 0.4% in Catalonia in January 2017 and stood at 81.37 euros.

In 2015, the proportion of households with Internet access exceeded 75% in all counties and Aran, according to the Territorial Statistics on ICT in Households.

Idescat presents the publication Llars i famílies a Catalunya 2011, which analyses the characteristics of households and families, and incorporates a specific analysis of households for the elderly, those formed by foreigners and households with children.

The Turnover index for the service sector (IASSVN) increased by a year-over-year 3.4% in Catalonia in December 2016.

The Industrial business volume index (IVNI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered a year-on-year decrease of 0.8% in Catalonia in December 2016.

The index of new orders for industry (IECI) for industrial products, excluding energy, registered an inter-annual increases of 0.3% in Catalonia in December 2016.

The Index of Competitive Position in Prices of the Catalan manufacturing industry in the third quarter of 2016 in relation to the industrialized countries, shows a decline of 0.8 percentage points year-over-year.

The CPI (base 2016=100) increased by 3.1% on a year-over-year basis in Catalonia in January 2017.

The unemployment rate in Catalonia stood at a mean of 15.7% in 2016, with a total of 593,600 unemployed, 15.6% less than in 2015, according to the Labour Force Survey. The number of households with all their active members unemployed totalled 186,800 representing a year-over-year drop of 16.0%.

The IPI adjusted by working days grew by 3.2% for the year-over-year variation in Catalonia in December 2016. In 2016, the annual average of the Industrial Production Index also rose by 3.2%, according to provisional data.

The number of overnight stays in rural tourism establishments increased by 3.9% in Catalonia in 2016, according to provisional data from the Rural Tourism Accommodation Occupancy Survey.

The Government has approved the Annual Programme for Statistical Action (PAAE) for the year 2017. The aim of the programme is to establish and provide a standardised description of the 311 statistical actions of interest to the Government that must be conducted next year. This is the first program that deploys the Statistical Plan for Catalonia 2017-2020, approved by Law 5/2016, of 23 December.

The number of overnight stays in campsites grew 4.0% in Catalonia in 2016, according to provisional data from the Survey of Employment in Campsites.

The GDP of Catalonia has recorded a year-over-year growth of 3.1% in the fourth quarter of 2016 and a growth of 3.5% throughout 2016, according to the advance of the GDP, prepared by the Ministry of the Vice-presidency and of the Economy and Finance jointly with Idescat.

Exports grew by a year-over-year 6.8% and imports by a 9.8% in Catalonia in November 2016.

The total expenditure made by foreign tourists whose principal destination was Catalonia increased by 8.4% on the year-over-year data for December 2016. In 2016 as a whole, this total expenditure increased by 3.7% with respect to 2015, according to provisional data.

The number of overnight stays in rural tourism establishments in Catalonia grew by 3.8% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to provisional data from the Rural tourism accommodation occupancy survey.

The Large Store Sales Index at current prices (IVGS) in Catalonia increased by 3.2% year-over-year data for December 2016.In 2016 the IVGS at current prices in Catalonia increased by 0.8% in relation to the previous year.

The number of overnight stays spent at campsites in Catalonia increased by 4.0% in the fourth quarter of 2016 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 7.4% on the year-over-year data for December 2016. In 2016 as a whole, the number of foreign tourists arriving in Catalonia increased by 4.0% compared to 2015, according to provisional data.

The Statistical Nomenclature of Population Entities in Catalonia has been updated with the data from the Population Register on the date of January 1, 2016, which enables consultation of all of the population data by sex for the infra-municipal population entities of Catalonia.

The eighth edition has been announced of the Nursery Competition for Surveys and Experiments, aimed at pupils in secondary, pre-university and vocational education. The competition is organised by the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Universitat de Barcelona and the Faculty of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and which is supported by Idescat.

The General Index of Retail Commerce without service stations, at current prices, increased by 2.1% -on a year-over-year basis-; in Catalonia in December 2016.

Unemployment fell in Catalonia by 110,200 people in the 4th quarter of 2016 with respect to the previous year (-16.5%), standing at 558,500 unemployed persons, with an unemployment rate of 14.85%, according to the Active Population Survey. The employed persons rose by 100,800 individuals, 3.2% higher than the same period in 2015, totalling 3,202,600 people; the sectors of culture and tourism increased above the Catalan mean (12.4% and 6.6%, respectively).