Spain: information & communication sector number of employees 2020

The number of employees in the information and communication industry in Spain increased by 21,465 employees (+4.47 percent) since the previous year. While the growth in this industry is slowing down, with 501,766 employees, the number of employees is at its peak in the observed period.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the information and communication industry in Spain from 2011 to 2020

Characteristic	Number of employees
2020	501,766
2019	480,301
2018b	457,478
2017	431,073
2016	413,751
2015	395,903
2014	368,334
2013	365,412
2012	381,657
2011	388,766

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Release date

March 2023

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Spain

Survey time period

2011 to 2020

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to code J of NACE Rev 2.

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