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Selected business functions by business process (1) | Total | Main | Secondary | ||||||
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II 2009 (r) | I 2010 (r) | II 2010 (p) | II 2009 (r) | I 2010 (r) | II 2010 (p) | II 2009 (r) | I 2010 (r) | II 2010 (p) | |
Total (2) | 5,162 | 2,563 | 1,805 | 1,810 | 1,020 | 811 | 3,352 | 1,543 | 994 |
Producing goods/providing services | |||||||||
Construction activities | 375 | 305 | 252 | 347 | 291 | 241 | 28 | 14 | 11 |
Producing goods | 632 | 263 | 168 | 584 | 251 | 158 | 48 | 12 | 10 |
Providing services | 82 | 84 | 55 | 49 | 52 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 23 |
Accounting services | 114 | 46 | 27 | 10 | 2 | - | 104 | 44 | 27 |
Contracted services | 103 | 80 | 59 | 79 | 50 | 42 | 24 | 30 | 17 |
Engineering services | 114 | 52 | 27 | 20 | 13 | 10 | 94 | 39 | 17 |
Entertainment services | 22 | 17 | 21 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
Facility maintenance services | 177 | 75 | 46 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 165 | 67 | 33 |
Financial management | 37 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 3 | - | 34 | 16 | 13 |
Financial services | 53 | 18 | 29 | 35 | 9 | 21 | 18 | 9 | 8 |
Food and cafeteria services | 36 | 38 | 27 | 19 | 19 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 12 |
Gaming services | (3) | 7 | 3 | (3) | 6 | 1 | (3) | 1 | 2 |
Health care services | 27 | 22 | 26 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 3 |
Housekeeping services | 40 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 15 | 11 |
Lodging services | 20 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
Maintaining and repairing products | 43 | 13 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 34 | 9 | 14 |
Security services | 9 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
Assembling products | 175 | 41 | 33 | 96 | 12 | 10 | 79 | 29 | 23 |
Fabricating | 174 | 45 | 37 | 137 | 30 | 24 | 37 | 15 | 13 |
Quality assurance/quality control | 144 | 56 | 34 | - | - | - | 144 | 56 | 34 |
Supervision--first line or direct | 243 | 123 | 77 | 2 | - | - | 241 | 123 | 77 |
Procurement, logistics, distribution | |||||||||
Buying | 37 | 10 | 9 | 1 | - | - | 36 | 10 | 9 |
Distribution | 77 | 44 | 23 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 59 | 37 | 14 |
Packing | 69 | 45 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 64 | 44 | 13 |
Receiving | 88 | 51 | 19 | - | - | - | 88 | 51 | 19 |
Shipping | 172 | 73 | 35 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 154 | 65 | 34 |
Transporting | 98 | 54 | 38 | 36 | 23 | 18 | 62 | 31 | 20 |
Warehousing | 120 | 68 | 34 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 101 | 57 | 22 |
General management and firm infrastructure | |||||||||
Administrative and clerical support | 606 | 186 | 143 | 31 | 22 | 14 | 575 | 164 | 129 |
General management | 303 | 145 | 95 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 286 | 133 | 90 |
Human resource management | |||||||||
Human resources, including recruiting | 177 | 88 | 57 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 175 | 86 | 55 |
Payroll and compensation | 50 | 32 | 23 | 1 | - | 4 | 49 | 32 | 19 |
Training | 11 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 6 |
Marketing, sales, customer accounts | |||||||||
Advertising | 13 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 5 |
Billing | 28 | 16 | 13 | - | - | 1 | 28 | 16 | 12 |
Marketing | 53 | 25 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 49 | 21 | 14 |
Order processing | 56 | 38 | 16 | 2 | 3 | - | 54 | 35 | 16 |
Selling | 151 | 90 | 63 | 91 | 64 | 42 | 60 | 26 | 21 |
Telemarketing | 12 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
Customer and after-sales service | |||||||||
Call center activities | 39 | 22 | 28 | 25 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 11 |
Customer service | 139 | 81 | 66 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 124 | 70 | 55 |
Installing products | 18 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 4 |
Technical support | 43 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 40 | 22 | 14 |
Technology and process development | |||||||||
Computer systems development | 15 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 3 |
Computer systems maintenance | 19 | 8 | 9 | - | 2 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 8 |
Data processing | 16 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | - | 14 | 8 | 8 |
Internet web services | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Software development and testing | 13 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 5 |
Software and IT services | 64 | 22 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 55 | 16 | 18 |
Other business functions | 50 | 14 | 20 | 22 | 6 | 14 | 28 | 8 | 6 |
Other | |||||||||
Events with nonstandard functions reported | 207 | 66 | 58 | 150 | 45 | 42 | 57 | 21 | 16 |
Refusal (4) | 4 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - |
Does not know (5) | 37 | 10 | 8 | 37 | 10 | 8 | - | - | - |
Footnotes: | |||||||||
NOTE: Dash represents zero. |
Last Modified Date: August 20, 2010