Labour Cost Survey Foreign Trade of Goods Production in construction Spain Job vacancy rate in the EU Producer prices of industrial products Global Digital Quality of Life Index

1. Business…
at a glance
September 2022
Labour Cost Survey (INE)
Q2 22
+3.8%
y-o-y
Labour cost
€ 2,871.64
+4.3%
y-o-y
Wage cost
€ 2,153.88
Cost per employee; % y-o-y change
3.8
4.4
-10
-5
0
5
10
15
Q2
20
Q3
20
Q4
20
Q1
21
Q2
21
Q3
21
Q4
21
Q1
22
Q2
22
Total labour cost
Wage cost
% y-o-y change
By branch of activity - Top 10 largest increases
Production in construction Spain (Eurostat)
Jul. 22
+6.7%
monthly
-5.2%
y-o-y
Index 2015=100, monthly
Foreign Trade of Goods (M. Industry, Trade and Tourism)
Jan.-Jul. 22
+24.2%
y-o-y
Exports
€ 223 bn
+40.2%
y-o-y
Imports
€ 261.5 bn X 2.5
Energy
80.6
% of the total
r/ Jan.-Jul. 21
145
165
185
205
225
245
265
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Exports Imports
Trade deficit
€ -38,5 bn
bn€
75
80
85
90
95
100
105
110
115
Jan-20
Apr-20
Jul-20
Oct-20
Jan-21
Apr-21
Jul-21
Oct-21
Jan-22
Apr-22
Jul-22
Eurozone Spain % change
By type of construction

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% job vacancies over total number of vacancies.
Sorted by highest number of vacancies
By sectors
Record
increases
Job vacancy rate in the EU (Eurostat)
EU
2.1% in Q4 19
3%
Spain
0.9%
Q2 22
0.7% in Q4 21
* France: data not strictly comparable. Only business with 10 employees or more are surveyed and public administration, education and human health are not covered
of total jobs
of total jobs
EU-27
Germany
Spain
Global Digital Quality of Life Index* (Surfshark & UIT)
2022
* 117 countries and 5 pillars: internet quality and price, e-security and e-infrastructure and e-government services. Max. score = 1.
Top 10
Rank change
r/2021
0.76
0.73
0.71
0.71
0.69
0.68
0.68
0.67
0.67
0.67
Israel
Denmark
Germany
France
Sweden
Netherlands
Finland
Japan
UK
South Korea
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
▲3
▼1
▲6
▲3
▲8
▲5
▼4
▲4
▲1
▼8
Spain
16th
0.65 points
23rd Internet accessibility ▲27
27th Internet quality
21st E-infrastructure
4th E-security
19th E-government
▲2
▼6
▲2
▼4
=
Position in the 5 pillars
Rank change
r/2021
Producer prices of industrial products (Destatis)
Aug. 22
monthly
+7.9%
y-o-y
+45.8%
% change
7.9
45.8
-5
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Jan-20
Mar-20
May-20
Jul-20
Sep-20
Nov-20
Jan-21
Mar-21
May-21
Jul-21
Sep-21
Nov-21
Jan-22
Mar-22
May-22
Jul-22
Monthly
y-o-y
% y-o-y change
By type of product
% of total job vacancies
EU → 3%
Eurozone → 3.2%