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 Cost of goods sold (Series 2007-2009 - €) of Enterprises
Characteristic Description
Name Cost of goods sold (Series 2007-2009 - €) of Enterprises by Economic activity (CAE Rev. 3) and Legal form; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Integrated business accounts system
First available period 2007
Last available period 2009
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Economic activity (Classe - CAE Rev. 3)
  • Legal form
Concepts
  • ENTERPRISE:  Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
  • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:  Combination of resources such as labour, raw materials, equipment, etc., are joined, leading to the creation of specific goods or services. Regardless of the factors of production integrating the good or service produced, all activities generically imply an input of products (goods or services), a production process and an output of products (goods or services).
  • LEGAL FORM:  A classification given by law, which can take a number of forms: civil associations (public or private, profit- or non-profit-making) and companies.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  The length of time for which data are collected, e.g. a specific day, month or year.
Definition In 2004, the methodology of the Integrated Business Accounts System has been changed, as starts to make use of tax data provided by the tax authorities. Consequently, the results from the publication "Enterprises in Portugal 2005" reflect those important improvement that match with a better coverage of the business population, thus not directly comparable with the results published for previous years. The two major changes were: - Inclusion of the independent workers; - The use of exhaustive information, instead of using extrapolated data from Annual Business Survey.
Measure unit (symbol) Euro (€)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 03/06/2011


information presented in 29/4/2024