Financial statistics of foreign affiliates
Data of foreign affiliates by the ultimate controlling country (IFATS – Inward foreign affiliates statistics): Number of enterprises; average number of persons employed; average number of employees Turnover, incl. sales to non-residents; other revenue Costs total, incl. merchandise, materials, supplies and intermediate goods, laid-out work; personnel expenses; depreciation Personnel expenses total, incl. wages and salaries and social security costs Other expenses; operating profit (loss); financial income and cost; profit (loss) from normal operation; provision for taxes; net profit (loss) Production value; value added; labour productivity per person employed on the basis of value added; productivity of personnel costs on the basis of value added; total productivity on the basis of value added Assets total, incl. current assets, fixed assets, liabilities and equity. Investments in fixed assets The data are published by economic activity (2-digit EMTAK code) and by the country of residence of controlling units Data of foreign affiliates of Estonian enterprises (OFATS – Outward foreign affiliates statistics): Number of enterprises Average number of persons employed Turnover The data are published by economic activity and by the country of residence of the subsidiary | |
Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2 International Standard Codes for the Representation of the Names of Countries (ISO 3166) | |
Nonfinancial enterprises: Mining and quarrying Manufacturing Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply Water collection, treatment and supply Construction Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles Transportation and storage Accommodation and food service activities Information and communication Real estate activities Professional-, scientific and technical activity Administrative and support service activities Education Human health and social work activities Arts, entertainment and recreation Other service activities | |
Control over the enterprise – control exists if another unit or person holds more than 50% of shareholdings with voting rights or the ability to determine the general and financial policy of an enterprise. Enterprise – an enterprise consists of one or more companies (public limited company, private limited company, limited partnership, general partnership, commercial association) or branches of foreign companies or sole proprietors. Statistical unit is an enterprise. Foreign affiliate – an enterprise resident in the compiling country (e.g. Estonia) over which an institutional unit not resident in the compiling country (e.g. Estonia) has control, or an enterprise not resident in the compiling country over which an institutional unit resident in the compiling country has control. Foreign countries – all countries, excluding Estonia. Inward foreign affiliates statistics (IFATS) – statistics describing the activity of foreign affiliates resident in the compiling economy. Non-European Union – all countries, excluding Estonia and other European Union Member States. Outward foreign affiliates statistics (OFATS) – statistics describing the activity of foreign affiliates abroad controlled by the compiling economy. Shared control – no unit or person has over 50% of voting rights or controls otherwise. Ultimate controlling institutional unit of a foreign affiliate – the institutional unit, proceeding up a foreign affiliate’s chain of control, which is not controlled by another institutional unit. | |
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Foreign affiliates by the ultimate controlling country (IFATS): enterprises with 20 and more persons employed, excluding enterprises engaged in agriculture, forestry and fishing, and financial and insurance activities Foreign affiliates of Estonian enterprises (OFATS): foreign affiliates of Estonian enterprises located outside European Union countries FRAME List of active enterprises, excluding enterprises engaged in agriculture, forestry and fishing, and financial and insurance activities. The list is generated from the Business Register for Statistical Purposes. | |
Estonia as a whole | |
2005–… | |
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DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2007 on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates Commission Regulation (EC) No 747/2008 of 30 July 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates, as regards the definitions of characteristics and the implementation of NACE Rev. 2 (Text with EEA relevance) Commission Regulation (EC) No 364/2008 of 23 April 2008 implementing Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the technical format for the transmission of foreign affiliates statistics and the derogations to be granted to Member States Commission Regulation (EC) No 834/2009 of 11 September 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates, as regards the quality reports (Text with EEA relevance) OTHER LEGAL ACTS Not available OTHER AGREEMENTS Not available |
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Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Financial statistics of enterprises / Financial statistics of foreign affiliates” in the following tables: EM060: Financial statistics of enterprises (with 20 or more persons employed) by economic activity and controlling country EM062: Outward foreign affiliates statistics. | |
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Foreign Affiliates Statistics (FATS). Recommendations Manual, Eurostat (2012) http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-RA-12-016 | |
“Quality Report on Inward FATS” submitted to Eurostat |
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Corresponds to rules (regulations) |
Data is in general comparable with European Union Member States as the legal basis and harmonised methodology was adopted with the FATS (Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics) Regulation in 2007. In a number of Member States size thresholds are applied to the survey population, i.e. only larger enterprises are surveyed exhaustively; smaller units are sampled or not included at all. Estonian data refer to enterprises with 20 or more persons employed and thus are not comparable with the data for many other Member States. | |
Time series based on the common methodology start from 2008. Due to the elaboration of the definition of the enterprise since 2018, there may be a redistribution of indicators between economic activities (legal entities belonging to the group may be consolidated into one enterprise). | |
Data of foreign affiliates by the ultimate controlling country (IFATS): The economic indicators of foreign affiliates are part of the annual economic indicators of enterprises, expressing the economic indicators of enterprises with 20 or more persons employed (excl. enterprises engaged in agriculture, forestry and fishing, and financial and insurance activities) by controlling country. | |
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The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available. |
SURVEY DATA Not used ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Annual reports of enterprises are received from the commercial register of the Centre of Registers and Infomation Systems. Data on the following tax returns are received from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board: value added tax return (form KMD); declaration of income and social tax, unemployment insurance premiums and contributions to mandatory funded pension (form TSD). DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activities 20300 “Financial statistics of enterprises (annual)” and 20904 “Enterprise groups” are used. | |
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Data from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board are received via X-road and an FTP-server. Data from the commercial register are received via X-Road. | |
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