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Selected business functions by business process (1) | Total | Main | Secondary | ||||||
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I 2010 | IV 2010 (r) | I 2011 (p) | I 2010 | IV 2010 (r) | I 2011 (p) | I 2010 | IV 2010 (r) | I 2011 (p) | |
Total (2) | 2,563 | 1,897 | 1,926 | 1,020 | 864 | 762 | 1,543 | 1,033 | 1,164 |
Producing goods/providing services | |||||||||
Construction activities | 305 | 330 | 237 | 291 | 310 | 221 | 14 | 20 | 16 |
Producing goods | 263 | 168 | 172 | 251 | 145 | 147 | 12 | 23 | 25 |
Providing services | 84 | 89 | 89 | 52 | 52 | 34 | 32 | 37 | 55 |
Accounting services | 46 | 26 | 38 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 44 | 22 | 35 |
Contracted services | 80 | 98 | 68 | 50 | 64 | 40 | 30 | 34 | 28 |
Engineering services | 52 | 30 | 27 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 39 | 22 | 19 |
Entertainment services | 17 | 33 | 32 | 16 | 27 | 29 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
Facility maintenance services | 75 | 41 | 44 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 67 | 28 | 35 |
Financial management | 19 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 11 |
Financial services | 18 | 20 | 19 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 6 |
Food and cafeteria services | 38 | 44 | 30 | 19 | 26 | 10 | 19 | 18 | 20 |
Gaming services | 7 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Health care services | 22 | 27 | 24 | 20 | 24 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Housekeeping services | 17 | 14 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 14 |
Lodging services | 13 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Maintaining and repairing products | 13 | 23 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 17 |
Security services | 14 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
Assembling products | 41 | 43 | 41 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 29 | 37 | 33 |
Fabricating | 45 | 34 | 25 | 30 | 24 | 18 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
Quality assurance/quality control | 56 | 45 | 36 | - | 1 | 1 | 56 | 44 | 35 |
Supervision--first line or direct | 123 | 68 | 77 | - | - | - | 123 | 68 | 77 |
Procurement, logistics, distribution | |||||||||
Buying | 10 | 9 | 15 | - | - | - | 10 | 9 | 15 |
Distribution | 44 | 33 | 43 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 37 | 29 | 33 |
Packing | 45 | 19 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 44 | 17 | 19 |
Receiving | 51 | 19 | 24 | - | 1 | - | 51 | 18 | 24 |
Shipping | 73 | 34 | 48 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 65 | 29 | 39 |
Transporting | 54 | 27 | 32 | 23 | 10 | 15 | 31 | 17 | 17 |
Warehousing | 68 | 43 | 49 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 57 | 32 | 33 |
General management and firm infrastructure | |||||||||
Administrative and clerical support | 186 | 120 | 122 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 164 | 102 | 106 |
General management | 145 | 81 | 110 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 133 | 80 | 104 |
Human resource management | |||||||||
Human resources, including recruiting | 88 | 57 | 58 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 86 | 53 | 57 |
Payroll and compensation | 32 | 19 | 26 | - | 1 | 5 | 32 | 18 | 21 |
Training | 16 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 11 |
Marketing, sales, customer accounts | |||||||||
Advertising | 15 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 5 |
Billing | 16 | 7 | 8 | - | - | - | 16 | 7 | 8 |
Marketing | 25 | 11 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 21 |
Order processing | 38 | 25 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 24 | 26 |
Selling | 90 | 41 | 68 | 64 | 23 | 50 | 26 | 18 | 18 |
Telemarketing | 10 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
Customer and after-sales service | |||||||||
Call center activities | 22 | 10 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 7 |
Customer service | 81 | 52 | 73 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 70 | 49 | 66 |
Installing products | 12 | 13 | 15 | 1 | - | 1 | 11 | 13 | 14 |
Technical support | 23 | 16 | 16 | 1 | - | 2 | 22 | 16 | 14 |
Technology and process development | |||||||||
Computer systems development | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
Computer systems maintenance | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 6 | 8 | 3 |
Data processing | 10 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 9 |
Internet web services | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
Software development and testing | 7 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
Software and IT services | 22 | 13 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 16 |
Other business functions | 14 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 14 |
Other | |||||||||
Events with nonstandard functions reported | 66 | 38 | 40 | 45 | 20 | 28 | 21 | 18 | 12 |
Refusal (3) | - | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
Does not know (4) | 10 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 6 | - | - | - |
Footnotes: NOTE: Dash represents zero. |
Last Modified Date: June 1, 2011