Statistical presentation

Data description

This statistics concern foreign affiliates to Danish companies. The variables covered are localization (country), activity (industry) and number of employees. The number of employees in the foreign affiliate is defined as head counts and as an annual average.

Classification system

Danish foreign affiliates is published using the affiliates placement in: - Individual countries - International geographical regions - Main activities (based on the Danish Industrial Classification 2007 (DB07)) Danish Activity Code 2007 (in Danish)

Sector coverage

This statistics cover foreign affiliates in the private business sector, and this also reflects the activity covered regarding the Danish reporting units.

Statistical concepts and definitions

Affiliate: An affiliates is defined as an independent and autonomous unit, e.g. with its own management, that can hire/fire employees, delivers its own annual report, etc. (a branch is here not regarded as a foreign affiliate).

Control: "Control" is considered to exist when one is able to exercise controlling influence over the affiliate. This happens when one owns or controls (directly/indirectly) more than 50 per cent of the shares/votes of the affiliate. (The statistics is working with the concept of "affiliate" in the annual report, which means that the affiliate is considered a part of the enterprise group).

Direct/Indirect Control: Direct control is achieved when one owns or controls 50 per cent or more of the shares/votes in e.g. company (A). Indirect control is achieved if one owns or controls 50 per cent or more of the shares/votes in e.g. company (A), and that company (A) in return owns 50 per cent or more of the shares/votes in e.g. company (B). The result is therefore that one owns/controls company (A) directly and company (B) indirectly.

Foreign: The affiliate must be located outside Denmark (The Faroe Islands and Greenland are not considered a part of Denmark in this regard).

Foreign affiliates: The statistics include affiliates that are controlled by the parent enterprise and are not located in Denmark. The parent enterprise is considered having the control if it, directly or indirectly, owns more than 50 percent or have a controlling influence.

Parent Company: Company that are able to control one or more underlying affiliates.

Statistical unit

Statistical unit The statistical unit for Danish foreign affiliates is the foreign affiliate. The statistics covers affiliates and any underlying affiliates, which are located outside Denmark and are owned/controlled (directly/indirectly) by a Danish company (the parent company). The parent company is regarded to have control if it, directly or indirectly, owns 50 per cent or more of the shares/votes and/or have controlling influence over the affiliate.

Reporting unit The reporting unit of Danish foreign affiliates is a Danish company that is the direct owner of one or more foreign affiliates. This means that the survey also covers foreign affiliates that, via a Danish company, ultimately are controlled abroad.

Statistical population

The statistic covers foreign affiliates in the private non-agricultural business sector. From 2010 and onwards this means the activities 05-09, 10-39, 41-43, 45-47, 49-53, 55-56, 58-63, 64-66, 68, 69-75, 77-83, 85, 86-88, 90-93 and 94-96 in NACE Rev. 2. Regarding the years 2007-2009 the statistic uses NACE Rev.1.1, covering the activities 10-14, 15-37, 40, 41, 45, 50-52, 55, 60-64, 65-67, 70-74, 80, 85 and 90-93. The above mentioned covered activities also reflects the activity cut-off regarding the Danish reporting units. There is no cut off activity limit introduced for the survey for the parent enterprises or the affiliates.

Reference area

The statistical unit (the foreign affiliate) is located outside Denmark, with no further geographical delimitation in scope. The reporting unit (the Danish company) is located within Denmark.

Time coverage

2007 -

Base period

Not relevant for this statistics.

Unit of measure

Number of Danish foreign affiliates and number of employees.

Reference period

2022

Frequency of dissemination

Danish foreign affiliates is an annual survey and is published yearly.

Legal acts and other agreements

Statistics Denmark Act § 8, section 1. 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

Cost and burden

The burden is estimated to 1,3 million DKK in 2014.

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