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1The French statistics on enterprise groups and
the globalization
Raoul Depoutot, INSEE, FRANCE Dominique Francoz,
INSEE, FRANCE
2The economic context
- Restructuring of economic activity
- Globalization
- Outsourcing
3Outline of the presentation
- The statistical system to observe enterprise
groups - The economic use to follow up the globalization
- The ongoing projects
4The organization of information on enterprise
groups
5The survey on FInancial LInks (LIFI)
- The target population
- Firms reaching one of the following criteria
- Total amount of equity interest gt 1,2 M
- Number of employees gt 500
- Turnover gt 30 M
- Head of an enterprise group
- directly controlled by a foreign corporation
6The survey on FInancial LInks (LIFI), contd
- Information included in the questionnaire
- Identification characteristic of the surveyed
firm - Information on the shareholders
- Information on the affiliates or subsidiary of
the firm
7The survey on FInancial LInks (LIFI), contd
- Variables included in the questionnaire
8The LIFI survey, contdDesigning each group of
enterprises
- Statistical unit
- enterprise group
- Definitions
- Enterprise group
- Head of the group
- Core of the enterprise group
- Extended enterprise group
Source Insee Poitou-Charentes Service
statistique Pôle national Liaisons
Financières
9The survey on FInancial LInks (LIFI), contd
- Need to complete this information
- Enlarge the target population
- Have more information on foreign activity
(foreign affiliates and foreign parent companies) - Add economic variables
10The LIFI survey, contd
Source Insee Poitou-Charentes Service
statistique Pôle national Liaisons
Financières
11DIANE
- To enlarge the target population
- Private database edited by COFACE SCRL and BVD
- Information published by the French corporation
courts - Data on small firms
12The DREE survey
- To better cover the affiliates abroad
- Survey on French affiliates followed up by the
commercial offices in the French Embassies - To have information on the ultimate host
- To have economic information on the French
affiliates abroad (turnover, employees)
13The Treasury Board information
- To better cover the foreign parent companies
- Administrative information
- To have information on the ultimate beneficial
owner - To better attribute a citizenship to the firms
under foreign control
14The SUSE data
- To include economic data
- Result of both administrative and survey data
- At the level of legal units
- Available
- Income statement
- Balance sheet
- Main activity code
- Breakdown of sales by product
- Workforce characteristics
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15Some results
16The use of the LIFI data in the economic analysis
of globalization
- The weight of foreign firms in the economic
activity -
17Breakdown of resident corporations (France 2002)
18Development of the foreign controlled economy
19The use of the LIFI data in the economic analysis
of globalization
- The weight of foreign firms in the economic
activity - Globalization and outsourcing of French activity
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20The use of the LIFI data in the economic analysis
of globalization
RoW
France
Indep.
100 Fr
EGs
3.5
Foreign
Millions of Employees
21The current and future developments
- To consider enterprise groups as statistical
units - To define economic entities in the frame of group
which will be the collection units (profiling) - To develop a statistical register of EGs
- To produce consolidated economic data on EGs
- To integrate the EG as a data collection unit
22The current and future developments, contd
- To develop a statistical register of EGs
- To define the continuity of EGs
- Develop relevant concepts for EGs demography
- Analyze the result of mergers / split off
- To coordinate with other French statistical
offices - To improve the registration of foreign
corporation (abroad)
23The current and future developments, contd
- To produce consolidated economic data on EGs
- To avoid double counts on some variables
(Financial assets, sales)
24The current and future developments, contd
Consolidation of sales
Economic flow
25The current and future developments, contd
- To produce consolidated economic data on EGs
- To avoid double counts on some variables
(Financial assets, sales) - To have a better information of the international
activity of MNEs
26To produce consolidated economic data on EGs an
example
27The current and future developments, contd
- To produce consolidated economic data on EGs
some difficulties - Not compatible with the national territory
- No currently available for many EGS
- National sub-consolidation expansive
28The current and future developments, contd
- To integrate the EG as a data collection unit
- A first experience the survey on intangible
assets (RD and innovation, patents and
licensing, marketing)
29Thank you for your attention
Insee Poitou-Charentes Service statistique
Pôle national Liaisons Financières