Outward Foreign Affiliates Statistics

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Many enterprises have subsidiaries abroad. How many subsidiaries are there? What is the average turnover? To answer these and other questions, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) collects data.

Delivery of data

Have you been invited to submit data? You can find the posted letter here. 

You can fill in the data via a secure internet connection and send it to us. To open the internet questionnaire, go to https://antwoord.cbs.nl. The username and password are stated in the letters you have received. Have you lost your login codes? request a new password.

Via an upload function you can also upload the data from a CSV file in one go into the questionnaire. More information on how this works can be found here: Import instruction OFATS.

Consolidation

Your company consists of a number of subsidiaries. Therefore, we ask you to provide consolidated data of the subsidiaries in the Netherlands. The subsidiaries for which you need to provide data are listed in the questionnaire after the welcome screen. If you have received a letter regarding 'Future surveys', please stick to the instructions outlined in that letter.

Subsidiary companies

The survey includes questions about subsidiaries (including indirect subsidiaries). This means subsidiaries that are located abroad and includes all subsidiaries that your company has a controlling interest in.
In order to help you to decide which subsidiaries located abroad you should consider when completing the survey, please refer to the document entitled Information on subsidiaries.

StatLine-table:

Nederlandse zeggenschap bedrijven buiten EU-zone; land en SBI 2008 (cbs.nl) (Only in Dutch)

Contact

For questions please contact the CBS Contact Center