Today Banco de Portugal makes available the Sector Tables and the Enterprise and Sector Tables for 2013. The tables give indicators on non-financial corporations from Banco de Portugal's Central Balance-Sheet Database, which cover over 90% of the non-financial corporations in Portugal.

The Sector Tables give indicators on the sectors of economic activity and size classes of the Portuguese non-financial corporations and include a set of European ratios for each sector. These tables may be consulted on the Banco de Portugal website and at BPstat statistics online, and henceforth annual data from 2010 will be available.

Banco de Portugal provides to the non-financial corporations the Enterprise and Sector Tables, with indicators on each corporation and on its sector and size class, for free in the Corporate Area of the institutional website (only available in Portuguese).

New Sector Tables series, with data from 1995

Banco de Portugal also makes available today a new data-set on non-financial corporations from the Central Balance-Sheet Database: the Sector Table Long Time Series, with annual data from 1995. This series makes available a selection of indicators which offer greater comparability of the concepts used.

At the same time, Banco de Portugal has published Central Balance Sheet Studies No 19 - Sector Tables and Enterprise and Sector Tables: Methodological Notes. Long Time Series 1995-2013 (only available in Portuguese). This study describes the contents of the Sector Tables, the Enterprise and Sector Tables and Sector Tables Long Time Series, and clarifies the methodological aspects underlying the compilation of these statistical series.

Sector Tables for 2013

The Sector Tables for 2013 include data from over 360,000 enterprises, which cover over 90% of the non-financial corporations in Portugal (in terms of the number of corporations, turnover and number of employees).

Information is available for over 4,900 different aggregates (combinations of the corporations' economic activity sector and size class), with representativity levels above 90% in the majority of cases. A significant number of the total aggregates provided (over 2,000) relate to the highest level of detail of the CAE Rev.3 (subclasses).  

For the 2010-2013 period, the Sector Tables offer 5,889 aggregates. Data for all four years are available for 4,406 of those aggregates.

Lisbon, 27 November 2014