Group of statistical units in foreign affiliates in Finland statistics changes

The group of statistical units in foreign affiliates in Finland statistics will be expanded starting from the statistical reference year 2021. Limitations concerning the operating time and size of enterprises have been removed from the definition of statistical units. Previously, only enterprises having operated for at least six months in the statistical reference year and whose turnover, number of personnel, investments or balance sheet exceeded the statistical limit were included in the statistics.

In future, the statistics will include all market-based enterprises that have had turnover, personnel, other operating income, investments, or balance sheet during the statistical reference year. The effect of the new statistical units on variables other than the number of enterprises is mainly quite marginal. The expansion of statistical units has been carried out as part of the implementation of the new EU Regulation on European business statistics (EBS). EU grant funding has been received for the renewal of statistics compilation in 2020 to 2022.

In connection with the change, the StatFin database tables have been remade. Database tables created with the old statistical units can be found in the StatFin database archive.

As a result of the renewal, the number of enterprises used in the compilation of the statistics on foreign enterprises in Finland extends only a little compared to the number of all enterprises located in Finland. The number of foreign enterprises in Finland grows to 4,751, or by 5.7 per cent compared to the previous group of statistical units. The new statistical units do not have much effect on other variables. Turnover grows by 0.07 per cent and the number of personnel by 0.04 per cent.

New and archived database tables

Statistic: foreign affiliates in Finland statistics

New tables have swedish and english translations. Archived tables can be found from StatFins archive database.