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Industry: The Importance of Catalonia

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A third of industrial employment is in large companies (more than 250 employees), which represent only 0.4% of industrial companies, but which invoice 55.5% of sales. 84.9% of industrial companies had fewer than ten workers in 2018 (Official data from the Spanish administration (INE 1998; INE, Anuario Estadístico de España, 2002–2018; INE, Inebase, 2018a; INE, España en cifras, 2018b)). The autonomous communities contributing more than 10% of the sales figure in 2015 were Catalonia (23.6%), Andalusia (11.2%), the Valencian Community (10.7%), and the Basque Country (10.0%).

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Tapiador, F.J. (2020). Industry: The Importance of Catalonia. In: The Geography of Spain. World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18907-5_22

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