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April 16, 2020 With the lockdown, the formally suspended activities concern 2.1 million companies (just under 48% of the total), which employ 7.1 million employees (of which 4.8 million employees). This is one of the data that emerges from an in-depth analysis of Istat on the 787 sectors of economic activity according to the Ateco 5-digit classification and relating to the extended statistical register on the economic results of companies (Frame-SBS) which contains individual data on all companies industrial and services active in our country (about 4.4 million units), integrated with additional statistical registers (on importing and exporting companies and on labor in particular).

"Firm" companies generate - on the basis of 2017 data - 1,334 billion euros in turnover (41.4% of the overall level) and 309 billion in added value (39.5% of the total). With reference to the main macro-economic sectors, the closure measures concerned the industry in a more pervasive way: almost two thirds of the industrial enterprises, which represent 46.8% of the turnover and 53.2% of the added value of the macro-sector, they had to suspend their business.

At the same time, in the tertiary sector, the incidence of companies operating in sectors whose business is interrupted is 43.8%, 37.2% in terms of turnover and 29.2% in terms of added value. The suspension has a greater impact on the industrial sector also from an employment point of view: 59.3% of employees in the sector refer to suspended activities, against 35.2% found in services. In this context, the suspension of activities has affected in particular in the north-east (where 50.1% of employment belongs to suspended activities) and in the north-west (43.3%), while the share is gradually lower in the center (41.3%), in the south (41.1%) and in the islands (33.6%).

The sectors currently suspended represent 63.9% of exports of goods and generate 20.4% of turnover abroad, against 8.1% of that produced by companies operating in open sectors. In particular, as regards the industrial sector, 66.4% of exports are generated by suspended sectors, which show a propensity to export which is much higher than that found in active sectors (35% of the impact of exports on turnover compared to 15 , 6%).

Firms operating in suspended sectors are also characterized by a higher average number of export destination countries (10.4 against 8.1 in industry, 13.7 against 10.9 for the total economy) and a greater average number of exported products (8.9 against 6.0 in industry, 12.3 against 9.9 for the total economy) compared to active ones.