Archive:Architectural, engineering and technical services statistics - NACE Rev. 1.1
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Architectural and engineering activities covered by NACE Group 74.2 include architectural consulting activities (such as building design and draft ing, supervision of construction, town and city planning, and landscape architecture) and various engineering and technical activities related to construction, as well as geological and prospecting activities, weather forecasting activities and geodetic surveying. Technical testing and analysis activities (NACE Group 74.3) include environmental measuring, testing of food hygiene, buildings and equipment, as well as the periodic testing of vehicles for roadworthiness. In this publication these activities are referred to as technical business services.
Main statistical findings
Th e ten largest architectural enterprises (groups) in the EU are presented, based on information compiled by the Swedish Federation of Consulting Engineers and Architects (STD). As can be seen, the United Kingdom dominated this activity in 2007, as the six largest groups were British. However, even the largest groups were relatively small, with only the two largest having 1 000 or more employees.
Structural profile
Some EUR 129.6 billion of added value was generated in 2006 by the EU-27’s technical business services sector (NACE Groups 74.2 and 74.3), from a turnover of EUR 269.6 billion. This corresponded to 15.3 % of the total turnover for business services (NACE Divisions 72 and 74) and 14.5 % of the value added. Th ere were 2.7 million persons employed across the 926.3 thousand enterprises that were active in this sector, equivalent to 12.4 % of the EU-27’s business services’ workforce and more than one fi ft h (21.2 %) of the business services’ enterprise population. Among the persons employed in this sector, 71.8 % were paid employees, the lowest level of this share among the business services sectors presented in Subchapters 25.1 to 25.6, indicating a high incidence of working proprietors and unpaid family workers. Th e United Kingdom contributed the greatest share (23.4 %) of value added in the EU-27’s technical business services sector, the second largest contribution being recorded by Germany (17.4 %). However, Germany had a larger workforce in this sector than the United Kingdom. In value added terms, the United Kingdom, Sweden and France were the most specialised Member States in these activities in 2006, as this sector contributed between 2.7 % and 2.8 % to national non-fi nancial business economy (NACE Sections C to I and K) value added. Bulgaria (2005) was the least specialised in this activity, generating just 1.0 % of its non-fi nancial business economy value added in technical business services, with Poland, Cyprus (both 2005), Slovakia, Portugal and Latvia also recording shares below 1.5 %.
Expenditure and productivity
Th e share of personnel costs in operating expenditure was 35.0 % for the EU-27’s technical services sector in 2006, 4.5 percentage points below the business services average, but nevertheless far above the non-fi nancial business economy average (16.1 %). Average personnel costs were relatively high, EUR 40.0 thousand per employee, while apparent labour productivity was EUR 47.2 thousand of value added per person employed, also above the business services average. Th e resulting wage adjusted labour productivity ratio was low, 118.2 %, refl ecting the high average personnel costs. Th is was the second lowest ratio among the business services activities presented in Subchapters 25.1 to 25.6. Italy and Belgium both recorded ratios below parity (100 %) indicating that average personnel costs were higher than apparent labour productivity (7). Only in Greece was the wage adjusted labour productivity ratio for the technical business services sector above the national average for the non-fi nancial business economy.
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