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Selected business functions by business process (1) | Total | Main | Secondary | ||||||
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II 2011 | I 2012 (r) | II 2012 (p) | II 2011 | I 2012 (r) | II 2012 (p) | II 2011 | I 2012 (r) | II 2012 (p) | |
Total (2) | 1,848 | 1,767 | 1,651 | 743 | 729 | 659 | 1,105 | 1,038 | 992 |
Producing goods/providing services | |||||||||
Construction activities | 207 | 185 | 187 | 197 | 173 | 177 | 10 | 12 | 10 |
Producing goods | 163 | 136 | 100 | 131 | 114 | 84 | 32 | 22 | 16 |
Providing services | 102 | 84 | 82 | 43 | 24 | 34 | 59 | 60 | 48 |
Accounting services | 26 | 20 | 21 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 25 | 15 | 20 |
Contracted services | 77 | 106 | 86 | 43 | 83 | 72 | 34 | 23 | 14 |
Engineering services | 42 | 29 | 30 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 31 | 23 | 23 |
Entertainment services | 34 | 73 | 58 | 31 | 69 | 46 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
Facility maintenance services | 50 | 45 | 44 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 42 | 40 | 31 |
Financial management | 12 | 12 | 15 | 2 | 2 | - | 10 | 10 | 15 |
Financial services | 27 | 16 | 12 | 21 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
Food and cafeteria services | 36 | 37 | 31 | 17 | 24 | 17 | 19 | 13 | 14 |
Gaming services | 9 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 1 |
Health care services | 25 | 23 | 24 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
Housekeeping services | 10 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | 9 | 12 | 9 |
Lodging services | 3 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
Maintaining and repairing products | 21 | 11 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 19 |
Security services | 9 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
Assembling products | 36 | 30 | 25 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 23 | 16 |
Fabricating | 37 | 34 | 19 | 19 | 12 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 6 |
Quality assurance/quality control | 42 | 47 | 44 | 1 | 1 | - | 41 | 46 | 44 |
Supervision--first line or direct | 79 | 81 | 78 | 1 | - | 1 | 78 | 81 | 77 |
Procurement, logistics, distribution | |||||||||
Buying | 7 | 4 | 16 | - | - | 1 | 7 | 4 | 15 |
Distribution | 32 | 43 | 29 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 27 | 34 | 26 |
Packing | 25 | 25 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 24 | 16 |
Receiving | 20 | 23 | 18 | - | - | - | 20 | 23 | 18 |
Shipping | 33 | 37 | 32 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 33 | 31 |
Transporting | 22 | 21 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 16 | 12 |
Warehousing | 38 | 42 | 26 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 26 | 32 | 20 |
General management and firm infrastructure | |||||||||
Administrative and clerical support | 107 | 94 | 83 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 94 | 80 | 71 |
General management | 122 | 100 | 80 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 118 | 96 | 78 |
Human resource management | |||||||||
Human resources, including recruiting | 42 | 38 | 63 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 37 | 62 |
Payroll and compensation | 22 | 19 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 17 | 11 |
Training | 9 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 9 |
Marketing, sales, customer accounts | |||||||||
Advertising | 3 | 7 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
Billing | 9 | 4 | 6 | - | - | - | 9 | 4 | 6 |
Marketing | 13 | 15 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 16 |
Order processing | 27 | 20 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 19 | 24 |
Selling | 62 | 67 | 59 | 42 | 43 | 38 | 20 | 24 | 21 |
Telemarketing | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Customer and after-sales service | |||||||||
Call center activities | 18 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
Customer service | 76 | 86 | 95 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 64 | 72 | 83 |
Installing products | 12 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 9 |
Technical support | 27 | 11 | 24 | 4 | - | - | 23 | 11 | 24 |
Technology and process development | |||||||||
Computer systems development | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
Computer systems maintenance | 3 | 4 | 11 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
Data processing | 6 | 5 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 6 | 4 | 3 |
Internet web services | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Software development and testing | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
Software and IT services | 15 | 24 | 16 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 12 |
Other business functions | 33 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 6 |
Other | |||||||||
Events with nonstandard functions reported | 52 | 43 | 36 | 34 | 29 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 21 |
Refusal (3) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Does not know (4) | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | - | - | - |
Footnotes: | |||||||||
NOTE: Dash represents zero. |