Archive:Mining support service activities statistics - NACE Rev. 2
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This article presents an overview of statistics for mining support service activities in the European Union (EU), covering NACE Rev. 2 Division 09.
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Main statistical findings
Structural profile
There were 1.4 thousand enterprises operating with mining support services (Division 09) as their main activity in the EU-27 in 2010 and together they employed 52.5 thousand persons, equivalent to 8.5 % of all persons employed in mining and quarrying (Section B). The value added generated in this sector reached EUR 6.2 billion which was 0.1 % of the non-financial business economy (Sections B to J and L to N and Division 95) total and 7.3 % of the mining and quarrying total.
Average personnel costs within the EU-27’s mining support services sector were relatively high, reaching EUR 53.8 thousand per employee in 2010, compared with an average of EUR 30.9 thousand per employee across the whole of the non-financial business economy and EUR 37.5 thousand per employee for mining and quarrying. The apparent labour productivity of the mining support services sector was also high, EUR 117.1 thousand per person employed, well above the non-financial business economy average of EUR 44.8 thousand per person employed, but slightly below the mining and quarrying average (EUR 137.0 thousand per person employed).
The resulting wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio shows that in 2010 apparent labour productivity was equivalent to 217.7 % of average personnel costs in the EU-27’s mining support services sector. This was higher than the non-financial business economy average (144.8 %), but lower than the mining and quarrying average (365.0 %), as the latter was pulled up by the extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas (Division 06). A similar situation can be observed for the gross operating rate, which was 23.0 % for the EU-27’s mining support services sector in 2010. This measure of operating profitability (relating the gross operating surplus and turnover) was more than twice as high in the mining support services sector than it was, on average, in the non-financial business economy (10.1 %), but was lower than the mining and quarrying average (28.3 %) which was again elevated by the extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas (30.5 %).
Sectoral analysis
The mining support services sector is split between two subsectors, depending whether the support services are provided for the extraction of petroleum and natural gas (Group 09.1) or for other types of mining and quarrying (Group 09.2).
Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction dominated the sector in the EU-27, accounting for 65.2 % of the enterprise population in 2010, contributing 86.1 % of sectoral employment and generating more than 97 % of the sectoral turnover and value added. As a result, support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction recorded higher apparent labour productivity than the support activities for other mining and quarrying. This relatively high level of apparent labour productivity for support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction (EUR 133.0 thousand per person employed) remained slightly below the mining and quarrying average, whereas this subsector’s average personnel costs (EUR 59.5 thousand per employee) — see Table 2b — were well above the mining and quarrying average. By contrast, although this subsector’s wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio (233.5 %) and gross operating rate (23.6 %) were also above the non-financial business economy averages they were both below mining and quarrying averages.
Support activities for other mining and quarrying recorded relatively low apparent labour productivity and average personnel costs in the EU-27 in 2010, the former less than half the non-financial business economy average. This subsector’s wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio (110.2 %) was also below the non-financial business economy average, while its gross operating rate (4.2 %) was less than half the non-financial business economy average.
Country analysis
More than three fifths (61.0 %) of the value added within the EU-27’s mining support services sector in 2010 was generated in the United Kingdom; this reflected the importance of the extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas (which is the main client of the related support activities) in the United Kingdom. Poland had the highest value added in the subsector concerning support activities for other mining and quarrying, with a 37.7 % share of EU-27 value added. Slovakia was the most specialised Member State in the mining support services sector, generating 0.5 % of its non-financial business economy value added in this activity, ahead of the United Kingdom and Romania (both 0.4 %); for comparison, this share reached 2.3 % in Norway. Among all of the NACE divisions within the non-financial business economy, the mining support services sector was the one where the United Kingdom and Slovakia were most specialised in terms of the sector’s contribution to non-financial business economy value added compared with the equivalent contribution for the EU-27 as a whole; this was also the case for Norway. On the same basis, the mining support services sector was the second most specialised sector for Romania and the Netherlands and the third most specialised for Denmark.
Table 4b shows that Slovakia had by far the highest wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio (773.1 %) among the EU Member States for which data are available for the mining support services sector, followed by the Netherlands (350.2 %), Romania (232.3 %), Spain (216.9 %) and the United Kingdom (220.7 %). In the case of Slovakia, this was the highest wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio recorded among all of the NACE divisions within the Slovakian non-financial business economy in 2010.
Size class analysis
Large enterprises (employing 250 or more persons) were the dominant size class within the EU-27’s mining support services sector, as can be seen from Figure 2. Large enterprises employed more than two thirds (68.6 %) of the sectoral workforce and contributed three fifths (60.5 %) of the value added. The relatively low share of value added implies a low apparent labour productivity for large enterprises. As can be seen from Table 5, the highest apparent labour productivity for this sector was recorded for micro enterprises (employing fewer than 10 persons) and apparent labour productivity was lower among classes with larger sized enterprises.
As noted above, the United Kingdom had the largest mining support services sector among the EU Member States and this was more concentrated in large enterprises than was the case for the EU-27 as a whole: some 84.6 % of employment in the mining support services sector in the United Kingdom was concentrated in large enterprises, as well as 63.8 % of its value added.
Data sources and availability
The analysis presented in this article is based on the main dataset for structural business statistics (SBS) and size class data, all of which are published annually.
The main series provides information for each EU Member State as well as a number of non-member countries at a detailed level according to the activity classification NACE. Data are available for a wide range of variables.
In structural business statistics, size classes are generally defined by the number of persons employed. A limited set of the standard structural business statistics variables (for example, the number of enterprises, turnover, persons employed and value added) are analysed by size class, mostly down to the three-digit (group) level of NACE. The main size classes used in this article for presenting the results are:
- small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): with 1 to 249 persons employed, further divided into;
- micro enterprises: with less than 10 persons employed;
- small enterprises: with 10 to 49 persons employed;
- medium-sized enterprises: with 50 to 249 persons employed;
- large enterprises: with 250 or more persons employed.
Context
This article presents an overview of statistics for the mining support service activities sector in the EU, covering NACE Rev. 2 Division 09. This division includes specialised support services incidental to mining provided on a fee or contract basis. It includes exploration services through traditional prospecting methods such as taking core samples and making geological observations as well as drilling, test-drilling or redrilling for oil wells, metallic and non-metallic minerals. Other typical services cover building oil and gas well foundations, cementing oil and gas well casings, cleaning, bailing and swabbing oil and gas wells, draining and pumping mines, overburden removal services at mines, and so on. Also included are oil and gas field fire fighting services.
This NACE division is composed of two groups:
- support activities for petroleum and natural gas mining (Group 09.1);
- support activities for other mining and quarrying (Group 09.9).
Excluded are service activities performed by operators of oil or gas fields or operating mines or quarries on a contract or fee basis (Divisions 05 to 08, mining and quarrying activities), specialised repair of mining machinery (Division 33, repair and installation of machinery and equipment) and geophysical, geologic and seismic surveying (Division 71, architectural and engineering activities).
See also
- Mining and quarrying
- Other analyses of the business economy by NACE Rev. 2 sector
- Structural business statistics introduced
Further Eurostat information
Publications
- European business - facts and figures (online publication)
- Key figures on European Business – with a special feature section on SMEs – 2011 edition
Main tables
Database
- SBS - industry and construction (sbs_ind_co)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics - industry and construction (sbs_na_ind)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics for industry (NACE Rev. 2 B-E) (sbs_na_ind_r2)
- SMEs - Annual enterprise statistics by size class - industry and construction (sbs_sc_ind)
- Industry by employment size class (NACE Rev. 2 B-E) (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics - industry and construction (sbs_na_ind)
- SBS - regional data - all activities (sbs_r)
- SBS data by NUTS 2 regions and NACE Rev. 2 (from 2008 onwards) (sbs_r_nuts06_r2)
Dedicated section
Source data for tables and figures (MS Excel)
Other information
- Decision 1578/2007/EC of 11 December 2007 on the Community Statistical Programme 2008 to 2012
- Regulation 295/2008 of 11 March 2008 concerning structural business statistics