European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in
foreign countries
Outward FATS
Outward FATS
The objective of this scheme is :
- to understand better the challenges of globalization and the role of multinationals
- to measure the degree of internationalization of French groups (their foreign presence)
through the counting and characterization of their subsidiaries operating outside
the national territory.
This scheme is led within the framework of the European regulation Foreign AffiliaTes
Statistics (FATS) n° 716/2007 of June 20th, 2007. It includes two sectors:
- on one hand Inward FATS try to measure the activity of the foreign firms on the
national territory;
- on the other hand Outward is dedicated to the follow-up of subsidiaries under national
control implanted in foreign countries.
The objective of Eurostat is to move closer by a symmetry, to the data collected in
both sources Inward et Outward to reconstitute the whole puzzle.
Before the OFATS survey, the sources of information on the internationalization of
French groups were few in number and difficult to reconcile; The statistics relating
to foreign trade in goods and those of the balance of payments shed specific light
on the subject of the globalization of the economy without, however, characterizing
in a precise manner the international activity of the groups.
The "Subsidiaries" survey carried out every two years by the local economic missions
of the Direction Générale du Trésor was the only source enabling French interests
abroad to be assessed, through the number of establishments of French groups (companies
more than 10% owned by a French parent company, secondary establishments or representative
offices) and their weight in terms of turnover and employment. The coverage rate of
this survey, however, varied according to the size of the countries and the reliability
of the information.
The first OFATS survey covered the 2007 FY. It was the pilot survey carried out by
France at the request of Eurostat, on a voluntary basis.The scope defined for this
first edition was that of French groups having at least one subsidiary located outside
the European Union. Following the success of this pilot experiment, the OFATS survey
is now conducted every year.
The OFATS survey covering the year 2009 asks French groups about the same characteristics
of their establishment abroad: number of subsidiaries by country and activity and
turnover and employment of these subsidiaries. However, compared to the pilot survey,
this new edition of the survey allows for a broader diagnosis of internationalized
groups since the field of observation has been extended to French groups having at
least one subsidiary located outside France.
Since the 2016 FY, the survey is based on a sample of 2,800 groups.
Documentation par millésimes
- Survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2019
- Survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2018
- Survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2017
- Survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2016
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2023
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2022
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2021
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2020
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2015
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2014
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2013
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2012
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2011
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2010
- European survey on activities of subsidiaries under national control implanted in foreign countries 2009
Survey
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