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Selected business functions by business process (1) | Total | Main | Secondary | ||||||
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IV 2011 | III 2012 (r) | IV 2012 (p) | IV 2011 | III 2012 (r) | IV 2012 (p) | IV 2011 | III 2012 (r) | IV 2012 (p) | |
Total (2) | 1,796 | 1,610 | 2,135 | 807 | 661 | 696 | 989 | 949 | 1,439 |
Producing goods/providing services | |||||||||
Construction activities | 236 | 141 | 205 | 227 | 135 | 184 | 9 | 6 | 21 |
Producing goods | 175 | 125 | 160 | 146 | 110 | 128 | 29 | 15 | 32 |
Providing services | 87 | 74 | 85 | 22 | 26 | 20 | 65 | 48 | 65 |
Accounting services | 30 | 37 | 22 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 27 | 31 | 21 |
Contracted services | 129 | 106 | 141 | 102 | 92 | 87 | 27 | 14 | 54 |
Engineering services | 44 | 29 | 48 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 34 | 24 | 41 |
Entertainment services | 82 | 78 | 54 | 80 | 71 | 47 | 2 | 7 | 7 |
Facility maintenance services | 47 | 40 | 63 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 38 | 33 | 51 |
Financial management | 17 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 3 | - | 15 | 7 | 12 |
Financial services | 16 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 5 |
Food and cafeteria services | 31 | 29 | 36 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 20 |
Gaming services | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 |
Health care services | 18 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Housekeeping services | 8 | 4 | 21 | 1 | - | 2 | 7 | 4 | 19 |
Lodging services | 8 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | 11 |
Maintaining and repairing products | 17 | 17 | 45 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 40 |
Security services | 9 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
Assembling products | 49 | 37 | 46 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 34 | 27 | 37 |
Fabricating | 34 | 25 | 38 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 10 | 27 |
Quality assurance/quality control | 21 | 43 | 84 | - | 1 | - | 21 | 42 | 84 |
Supervision--first line or direct | 65 | 58 | 70 | - | - | - | 65 | 58 | 70 |
Procurement, logistics, distribution | |||||||||
Buying | 11 | 10 | 14 | - | - | - | 11 | 10 | 14 |
Distribution | 32 | 29 | 39 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 26 | 34 |
Packing | 24 | 29 | 33 | - | 2 | 2 | 24 | 27 | 31 |
Receiving | 18 | 15 | 22 | - | - | - | 18 | 15 | 22 |
Shipping | 23 | 39 | 41 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 37 | 40 |
Transporting | 21 | 24 | 46 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 33 |
Warehousing | 33 | 40 | 62 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 27 | 31 | 58 |
General management and firm infrastructure | |||||||||
Administrative and clerical support | 86 | 91 | 89 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 74 | 75 | 76 |
General management | 84 | 77 | 80 | 3 | 8 | - | 81 | 69 | 80 |
Human resource management | |||||||||
Human resources, including recruiting | 43 | 60 | 88 | 4 | - | 2 | 39 | 60 | 86 |
Payroll and compensation | 19 | 17 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 15 |
Training | 11 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 13 |
Marketing, sales, customer accounts | |||||||||
Advertising | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Billing | 5 | 9 | 8 | - | - | - | 5 | 9 | 8 |
Marketing | 21 | 14 | 26 | 2 | - | 2 | 19 | 14 | 24 |
Order processing | 12 | 23 | 35 | - | 2 | 2 | 12 | 21 | 33 |
Selling | 48 | 43 | 78 | 24 | 21 | 34 | 24 | 22 | 44 |
Telemarketing | 2 | 5 | 12 | - | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
Customer and after-sales service | |||||||||
Call center activities | 11 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
Customer service | 59 | 69 | 94 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 54 | 64 | 86 |
Installing products | 18 | 10 | 31 | 2 | 2 | - | 16 | 8 | 31 |
Technical support | 22 | 20 | 26 | 1 | 1 | - | 21 | 19 | 26 |
Technology and process development | |||||||||
Computer systems development | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Computer systems maintenance | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 6 | 4 |
Data processing | 6 | 9 | 4 | - | - | - | 6 | 9 | 4 |
Internet web services | 2 | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Software development and testing | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | - | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
Software and IT services | 14 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 12 |
Other business functions | 28 | 30 | 35 | 15 | 25 | 24 | 13 | 5 | 11 |
Other | |||||||||
Events with nonstandard functions reported | 44 | 55 | 80 | 25 | 29 | 53 | 19 | 26 | 27 |
Refusal (3) | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - |
Does not know (4) | 7 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - |
Footnotes: | |||||||||
NOTE: Dash represents zero. |