OFATS : Outward Foreign Affiliates Statistics - 2018
Statistical concepts and definitions
This survey contains the three variables to be necessarily supplied, as from 2011 concerning 2009, for France: the turnover, the staff and the number of subsidiaries by country of presence of subsidiaries and by business sector. It also integrates some additional variables among which the costs of staff and the physical investment. This OFATS survey questions the French groups on the same parameters of their locations abroad: number of affiliates by country and activity sector, and turnover and manpower of these subsidiaries. The survey includes three variables that appear in the FATS regulation and are necessarily required: the number of subsidiaries, their number of employees and their turnover by country and activity sector.
Statistical population
All merchant activity sectors are concerned (excluded financial sector).
" UCI " : Ultimate Controlling Institutional unit.
Reference area
France
- Notice 2018 de l'enquête européenne sur l'activité des filiales étrangers des groupes français / OFATS (pdf, fr)
- Questionnaire 2018 de l'enquête européenne sur l'activité des filiales étrangers des groupes français / OFATS (pdf, fr)
- Les investissements directs français à l'étranger et étrangers en France en 2009 (pdf, fr)
- L'enquête OFATS, méthodologie et premiers résultats de l'enquête pilote 2007 (pdf, fr)