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Selected business functions by business process (1) | Total | Main | Secondary | ||||||
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III 2011 | II 2012 (r) | III 2012 (p) | III 2011 | II 2012 (r) | III 2012 (p) | III 2011 | II 2012 (r) | III 2012 (p) | |
Total (2) | 1,872 | 1,958 | 1,373 | 836 | 868 | 539 | 1,036 | 1,090 | 834 |
Producing goods/providing services | |||||||||
Construction activities | 198 | 226 | 118 | 188 | 215 | 112 | 10 | 11 | 6 |
Producing goods | 156 | 115 | 108 | 129 | 98 | 95 | 27 | 17 | 13 |
Providing services | 95 | 82 | 68 | 40 | 35 | 23 | 55 | 47 | 45 |
Accounting services | 31 | 25 | 30 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 23 | 26 |
Contracted services | 148 | 145 | 81 | 121 | 128 | 69 | 27 | 17 | 12 |
Engineering services | 31 | 33 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 26 | 21 |
Entertainment services | 89 | 91 | 53 | 87 | 82 | 46 | 2 | 9 | 7 |
Facility maintenance services | 40 | 47 | 37 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 29 | 31 | 30 |
Financial management | 17 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 6 |
Financial services | 22 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 |
Food and cafeteria services | 35 | 32 | 22 | 19 | 19 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 10 |
Gaming services | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Health care services | 33 | 28 | 14 | 31 | 22 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Housekeeping services | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 9 | 10 | 3 |
Lodging services | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
Maintaining and repairing products | 23 | 23 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 10 |
Security services | 8 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 4 |
Assembling products | 35 | 26 | 32 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 17 | 24 |
Fabricating | 18 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
Quality assurance/quality control | 39 | 50 | 37 | 1 | - | 1 | 38 | 50 | 36 |
Supervision--first line or direct | 69 | 92 | 49 | - | 1 | - | 69 | 91 | 49 |
Procurement, logistics, distribution | |||||||||
Buying | 7 | 18 | 9 | - | 1 | - | 7 | 17 | 9 |
Distribution | 46 | 31 | 27 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 39 | 27 | 23 |
Packing | 28 | 22 | 27 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 19 | 25 |
Receiving | 18 | 20 | 15 | - | - | - | 18 | 20 | 15 |
Shipping | 38 | 36 | 35 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 34 | 33 |
Transporting | 41 | 25 | 21 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 28 | 14 | 9 |
Warehousing | 34 | 29 | 34 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 25 | 20 | 29 |
General management and firm infrastructure | |||||||||
Administrative and clerical support | 126 | 93 | 78 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 115 | 80 | 64 |
General management | 103 | 102 | 67 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 102 | 96 | 60 |
Human resource management | |||||||||
Human resources, including recruiting | 45 | 65 | 55 | 2 | 1 | - | 43 | 64 | 55 |
Payroll and compensation | 21 | 21 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 11 |
Training | 8 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 9 |
Marketing, sales, customer accounts | |||||||||
Advertising | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
Billing | 6 | 7 | 8 | - | - | - | 6 | 7 | 8 |
Marketing | 15 | 21 | 12 | 1 | 3 | - | 14 | 18 | 12 |
Order processing | 30 | 27 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 26 | 17 |
Selling | 37 | 65 | 37 | 23 | 44 | 18 | 14 | 21 | 19 |
Telemarketing | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | - |
Customer and after-sales service | |||||||||
Call center activities | 11 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
Customer service | 51 | 99 | 63 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 40 | 83 | 59 |
Installing products | 4 | 14 | 10 | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 8 |
Technical support | 15 | 26 | 19 | 1 | - | 1 | 14 | 26 | 18 |
Technology and process development | |||||||||
Computer systems development | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Computer systems maintenance | 6 | 12 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 6 | 11 | 3 |
Data processing | 10 | 2 | 7 | - | - | - | 10 | 2 | 7 |
Internet web services | 5 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 2 | - |
Software development and testing | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 4 | - | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Software and IT services | 16 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 7 |
Other business functions | 27 | 33 | 26 | 20 | 26 | 21 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
Other | |||||||||
Events with nonstandard functions reported | 28 | 53 | 45 | 19 | 23 | 21 | 9 | 30 | 24 |
Refusal (3) | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Does not know (4) | 7 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | - | - | - |
Footnotes: | |||||||||
NOTE: Dash represents zero. |