Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Sector Indicators 
ICT Sector. Evolution 2008-2018
Number of companies in the ICT sector  by branches of activity of the  ICT sector and period.
Units: number of companies

	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013(expanded ambit)	2013(ambit 2012)	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	
ICT MANUFACTURING: NACE 2611, 2612, 2620, 2630, 2640, 2680	1,383	1,461	1,479	1,491	1,525	1,440	1,415	781	765	824	927	892	980	
SERVICES	68,141	67,622	68,342	64,664	53,729	50,764	48,448	48,448	47,453	43,474	42,524	41,186	42,728	
ICT trade industries: NACE 4651, 4652	5,737	5,648	6,320	5,500	5,590	5,390	5,375	5,375	5,429	5,737	5,914	5,769	6,155	
ICT SERVICE INDUSTRIES: Editing Software: NACE 5821, 5829	3,997	4,103	3,441	3,068	1,601	1,036	1,122	1,122	1,013	1,118	1,061	1,089	1,009	
ICT SERVICES INDUSTRY: TELECOMMUNICATIONS: NACE 6110, 6120, 6130, 6190	5,931	6,905	6,778	6,305	4,707	4,879	4,663	4,663	5,064	4,548	4,927	4,931	6,016	
ICT SERVICE INDUSTRIES: programming, consultancy and other INFORMÁTICA RELATED ACTIVITIES: NACE 6201, 6202, 6203, 6209	38,621	37,677	37,778	35,445	29,594	28,346	26,559	26,559	25,991	23,674	22,770	22,216	20,750	
ICT SERVICE INDUSTRIES: WEB PORTALS, DATA PROCESSING, HOSTING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES: NACE 6311, 6312	5,258	5,326	5,965	5,187	5,013	3,913	3,621	3,621	3,679	3,577	3,471	3,218	3,495	
ICT SERVICE INDUSTRIES: REPAIR COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT: NACE 9511, 9512	8,598	7,963	8,060	9,159	7,224	7,200	7,108	7,108	6,277	4,820	4,381	3,963	5,303	
TOTAL ICT SECTOR	69,524	69,083	69,821	66,155	55,254	52,204	49,863	49,229	48,218	44,298	43,451	42,078	43,708	
Notes:
1) Until the reference year 2012, the Industrial Companies Survey  focused on industrial companies with at least one wage earner within  Spain, excluding Ceuta and Melilla. From the reference year 2013 on,  the survey widened its population and territorial scope, extending  the coverage to industrial companies without wage earners and  incorporating companies from Ceuta and Melilla 
 For reference year 2016, several methodological improvements have been applied to the Structural Business Statistics, framed within the 'Project for the integration of structural economic surveys'. As a consequence of these changes, the results of that exercise are not strictly comparable to those of other years, as the evolution of the variables obeys not only to possible real changes produced in this period, but also to the effects of the methodological improvements on the estimation of said variables. This effect is more considerable for the variable number of companies in the Trade and Services Sectors, and relatively small for the rest of the information. 
  
 For more details, please consult the specific document 'Measuring the effect of methodological changes in Structural Business Statistics 2016': https://www.ine.es/metodologia/t37/metodologia_eee_cambios2016.pdf  
    
 Source: Structural Statistics of companies: Industrial Sector 2019 and Structural Statistics of companies: Services Sector 2019 (new names of the old Industrial Companies Survey and Annual Services Survey)    
   
 ICT Sector:   NCEA 2009: 2611, 2612, 2620, 2630, 2640, 2680, 4651,  4652, 5821, 5829, 6110, 6120, 6130, 6190, 6201, 6202, 6203, 6209,  6311, 6312, 9511, 9512  
   
 '.' means data omitted due to lack of representation
Source: National Statistics Institute