INEbase / Technical Services Survey 1997. Metodology
Definitions
Main activity
Main activity of a company is understood to be the activity that contributes to the added value of the same. However, faced with the difficulty that the calculation of added value means when several activities are carried out, the main one is considered to be the one that generates the greatest volume of business or, failing this, that which occupies the greatest number of persons. Companies may carry out other activities other than that defined as the main one as secondary activities.
Legal nature
This indicates the legal form under which the company acts. The following categories are considered:
Legal persons:the following modalities are distinguished:
Private limited company.
Other legal entities such as: general partnership, limited partnership, goods community, cooperatives, foundations, etc.
Company
The company is the smallest combination of legal units that constitutes an organising unit that produces goods and services and has a certain degree of autonomy in making decisions, especially relative to the assignment of its current resources. A company may carry out one or more activities in one or various units.
Premises
Premises is considered to be any structurally separated and independent building that is not dedicated exclusively to family housing and in which a company's economic activities are carried out.
Employed personnel
Employed personnel is considered to be the set of persons who work in the unit of observation, producing goods, providing services or carrying out auxiliary activities.
Paid personnel
It is made up by employees linked to the company by a work contract and who are remunerated with fixed or periodical quantities in the form of salary, commission, by the job or payment in kind.
Purchases and expenses on goods and services
The purchases of goods and services represent the value of all goods, other than investment goods, and all services bought during the reference year destined for the resale in the state in which they were acquired for previous transformation and integration into sold products, or destined for the current functioning of the company. The purchases of goods and services are valued at acquisition price without including paid and deductible VAT.
Personnel costs.
They include all remuneration paid to the set of employees as remuneration for their work, as well as obligatory social and facultative charges which are the responsibility of the company.
Gross wages and salaries.
Indemnities
Social Security contributions which are the company's responsibility.
Other social charges...
Business Volume
This covers the net amounts invoiced by the company for the provision of services and net sales of the company's goods and products.
It includes all taxes on goods or invoiced services with the exception of VAT on clients.
Returns of sales, as well as taxes on sales are deducted. Not deducted are cash discounts or discounts on sales for prompt payment.
The turnover does not include the sale of fixed assets not the operating subsidies.
Production value
The production value measures the amount of goods and services produced by the company during the financial year. This is defined as business volume, which is more or less the variations of the stocks of finished products, work in progress and goods and services purchased for resale, deducting the purchases of goods and services for resale, adding immobilised production.
Gross added value at factor cost
This is calculated as the difference between the production value and the different operation costs destined for resale (purchase of raw materials, other supplies and expenses on external services), deducting the taxes tied to production and adding operation subsidies.
Financial surplus
This is calculated by deducting the financial costs from financial income.
Gross formation of fixed capital
Its value is obtained by deducting the disposals of fixed, material and immaterial assets acquisitions carried out during the financial year.
Population scope
Companies whose main activity is one of those included in groups 74.2 and 74.3 of the National Classification of Economic Activities 1993 (NACE-93). This includes the classes:
74.3 Technical testing and analysis
Temporal scope
The reference period of the survey is 1997, except for the variables relative to the number of premises and employment that has the 30 September 1997 as the reference date.
Geographical scope
All statistical units located in Spain are object of national investigation.
Statistical unit
Companies whose main activity is one of those described in the population field.
Surveys framework
The Central Companies Directory has been used as a survey framework (CCD).
Design of the survey
The population of companies has been stratified on a national level according to the cross of two variables: main activity and number of wage earners.
Sample
Official sample: 6.241
Collection of the information
The collection of information is carried out by means of the INE Centralised Collection Units (URCES). The procedure that is followed for the collection of data is: mail, telephone and fax.
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