This survey contains the five variables to be necessarily supplied, as from 2021, for France: the turnover, the staff, the number of subsidiaries, personnel costs and gross investment in tangible goods, by country of presence of subsidiaries and by business sector. It also integrates some additional variables.

NACE sectors from B to N and P to S

All merchant activity sectors are concerned (excluded financial sector).  

The unit investigated is the global decision center or the group global headquarter. This unit defined by Eurostat orresponds to the unit which exercises control over the subsidiaries declared in the survey. This control is characterized by the power to appoint the managers of companies or business units in charge of operational activities.