Reference metadata describe statistical concepts and methodologies used for the collection and generation of data. They provide information on data quality and, since they are strongly content-oriented, assist users in interpreting the data. Reference metadata, unlike structural metadata, can be decoupled from the data.
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2.1. Metadata last certified
8 May 2025
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8 May 2025
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8 May 2025
3.1. Data description
The EuroGroups register (EGR) is the statistical business register of Eurostat and the EU Member States and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries for multinational enterprise groups. The purpose of the EGR is to offer to statistical users a tool for coordinating frame population, to derive consistent statistical output with an improved quality in measuring global activities of European enterprises part of multinational enterprise groups.
The EGR produces data in yearly cycles and covers microdata on the groups and their enterprises and legal units. The EGR aims to register all multinational enterprise groups that have enterprises in EU Member States or EFTA countries, including European and non-European groups.
The Member States, EFTA countries and Eurostat exchange data on multinational enterprise groups and on the units belonging to those groups for the purposes of the European framework for statistical business registers to ensure the quality of the multinational enterprise group’s information in the Union.
The EGR brings together microdata on multinational enterprise groups from the EU and the EFTA countries' national statistical institutes, in line with the requirements of the Regulation (EU) No 2152/2019, and from a commercial data source for data outside the EU and EFTA.
3.2. Classification system
Classification systems and main code lists used in the EGR are as follows:
Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 2);
European System of Accounts (ESA 2010);
List of 2-digit country codes (ISO 3166-1);
List of legal forms of the legal units;
Currency codes (ISO 4217).
3.3. Coverage - sector
The coverage of the data transmitted to the EGR is defined in the Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics.
For the purposes of the European framework for statistical business registers, the following economic activities are considered:
any activity comprising the offer of goods and services on a given market;
non-market services contributing to the GDP;
direct and indirect holdings of active legal units.
Holding assets and/or liabilities are also considered an economic activity.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
Global group head
The global group head (GGH) of an enterprise group is the parent legal unit that is not controlled either directly or indirectly by any other legal unit. The subsidiary legal units of a subsidiary legal unit are considered to be subsidiaries of the parent legal unit.
Global decision centre
The global decision centre (GDC) of an enterprise group is the unit where the enterprise group level’s strategic decisions are taken. A group may have several decision-making centres or several units dedicated to a particular internal function, for example accounting or human resources. However, the decisions about the group are made only in the GDC. The GDC may be the GGH or another legal unit under the GGH.
Ultimate Controlling Institutional unit
The ultimate controlling institutional unit (UCI) of a foreign affiliate means the institutional unit higher up a foreign affiliate’s chain of control that is not controlled by another institutional unit.
Activity of unit
A statistical unit is considered to have been active during the reference period, if in said period it either realized positive net turnover or produced outputs or had employees or performed investments.
A legal unit can be legally or administratively active without any economic activity, when the inactive legal unit is part of an enterprise in combination with economically active legal units. Holding assets and/or liabilities shall also be regarded as an economic activity.
Number of employees
Number of persons employed is defined as the total number of persons who work in the unit, including wage-earners and self-employed persons (i.e., working proprietors, partners working regularly in the unit and unpaid family workers) as well as persons who work outside the unit but who belong to it and are paid by it (e.g., sales representatives, delivery personnel, repair and maintenance teams). It excludes manpower supplied to the unit by other enterprises, persons carrying out repair and maintenance work in the unit on behalf of other enterprises, as well as those on compulsory military service.
Number of employees and self -employed persons
The number of employees and self-employed persons is the sum of the number of employees and number of self- employed persons. The number of self-employed persons is the number of persons who were at some time during the reference period the sole owners or joint owners of the statistical unit in which they work.
Net turnover
Turnover comprises the totals invoiced by the observation unit during the reference period, and this corresponds to market sales of goods or services supplied to third parties. Turnover also includes all other charges (transport, packaging, etc.) passed on to the customer, even if these charges are listed separately in the invoice. Turnover excludes VAT and other similar deductible taxes directly linked to turnover as well as all duties and taxes on the goods or services invoiced by the unit. Reduction in prices, rebates and discounts as well as the value of returned packing are not taken into account. Income classified as other operating income, financial income and extraordinary income in company accounts is excluded from turnover
Total assets
The total assets refers to the sum of the balance sheet items at the end of the accounting period. It covers economic assets, which are divided into financial and non-financial assets
Principal activity
The principal (or main) activity is the activity that contributes most to the total value added of a unit under consideration. Ideally, the principal activity of the unit should be determined with reference to the value added to the goods and services produced, by applying the top-down method. The topdown method follows a hierarchical principle: the classification of the unit at the lowest level of the classification must be consistent with the classification of the unit at higher levels. The principal activity so identified does not necessarily account for 50 % or more of the unit’s total value added. In the European Union the classification of principal activity is determined by reference to NACE Rev. 2, first at the highest level of classification and then at more detailed levels (top-down method).
3.5. Statistical unit
The statistical units maintained in the EGR are defined in accordance with the Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community.
The EGR frame contains the following units: Legal units, Enterprises and Multinational enterprise groups.
Legal units include:
- legal persons whose existence is recognized by law independently of the individuals or institutions which may own them or are members of them,
- natural persons who are engaged in an economic activity in their own right.
The legal unit always forms, either by itself or sometimes in combination with other legal units, the legal basis for the statistical unit known as the 'enterprise'.
Enterprise
The enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units that is an organizational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations. An enterprise may be a sole legal unit.
Multinational enterprise group
A multinational enterprise group is an enterprise group that has at least two enterprises or legal units located in different countries. In business statistics also term ‘global enterprise group’ is used.
3.6. Statistical population
The data transmitted to the EGR during the cycle is made of the following datasets.
The data set with information on all incorporated resident legal units for the EGR Identification Service.
ISRLE file includes full. population of resident legal units is sent to EGR for identification.
The data set with information on foreign legal units for the EGR Identification Service.
ISNORLE file including full population of foreign legal unit recorded in national statistical business register is sent to EGR for identification.
The data set with information on legal units.
LEU file including full resident legal unit belonging to a global enterprise group is sent to EGR for processing.
The data set with information on relationships of ownership and control.
REL file including complete relationships between legal units is sent to EGR for processing:
two resident legal units
one resident and one foreign legal unit
two foreign legal units from non EU+EFTA countries.
Relationships in the REL are:
control relationships (>50%) complete
minority relationships (<50%) is not applicable
The data set with information on enterprises.
ENT file including full enterprises made of legal unit sent in LEU files is sent to EGR for processing.
The Data set with information on links between enterprises and legal units.
LEL file including full links between enterprise (ENT) and legal units (LEU) is sent to EGR for processing.
The Data set with information on enterprise groups of which country is the GDC country for the EuroGroups Register.
GEG file including data sources available for Statistics Poland: survey on enterprise groups, National Court Register on groups data is sent to the EGR for processing.
The groups’ variables are updated after receiving the preliminary frame:
names, total assets, turnover, employment, activity code NACE
3.7. Reference area
The reference area for EGR is the territory of all countries in which legal units belonging to enterprise groups operate.
3.8. Coverage - Time
The EGR frames are available from reference year 2008 onwards. NSI transmits data for the EGR production cycle since 2008 year.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable
The economic variables on employment are recorded in absolute figures.
The net turnover for enterprises is recorded in EUR currency.
The net turnover and net total asset for enterprise groups is recorded in millions in EUR currency.
The reference period for data sent to the EGR reflects the picture of 31 December of the given reference year.
Data transmitted to EGR during the EGR 2023 cycle includes data for the 2023 reference year. The identification, economic variables (number of employees, turnover and economic activity) refer to the 2023 reference year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
The content of the national data sent to EGR is defined according the Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 is laying down the technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
The legal framework setting up the procedures for EGR data exchanges and access to confidential data for the purpose of the European framework for statistical business registers are defined in the Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics (Art.10).
The national legislative measures or other formal procedures which prevent unauthorised disclosure of data that identify a person or economic entity either directly or indirectly include:
Law on Official Statistics
Personal Data Protection Act
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
EGR data are stored by the Commission (Eurostat) and by the national statistical authorities (NSAs) in the EU Member States and EFTA countries in a secure area with restricted and controlled access.
The transmission of the EGR data is done in an encrypted form and by electronic means via the Commission (Eurostat) single entry point for exchange of confidential data eDamis
Rules applied for treating the data set to ensure statistical confidentiality and prevent unauthorised disclosure are defined according to the policy rules (see section 7.1).
8.1. Release calendar
Not applicable.
8.2. Release calendar access
Not applicable.
8.3. Release policy - user access
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
Not applicable.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
Not applicable.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
Not applicable.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
The micro-data exchange of confidential data on multinational enterprise groups and on the statistical units belonging to those groups takes place, exclusively for statistical purposes, between EU Member States and EFTA countries and the European Commission (Eurostat).
Where such exchange of confidential data is carried out to ensure the quality of the multinational enterprise groups information in the Union and the exchange is explicitly authorised by the competent NSA which provides the data, national central banks may be party to the exchange of confidential data, exclusively for statistical purposes.
NSI exchanges information on multinational enterprise groups with:
Other Member States for repair the structures of enterprise groups (occasional action).
National Central Bank (NCB) has the authorised EGR access.
Information on the data quality programme for European statistical business registers is available in a domain-specific CIRCABC folder (restricted access).
EGR producers in the NSIs and statistical users in the NSIs and NCBs find more detailed information on EGR process, methodology, quality indicators on EGR wiki (restricted access).
11.1. Quality assurance
Eurostat Data Quality Programme monitors the quality and compliance of the data transmitted by the countries to EGR using the instruments of the EBS quality framework.
At national level, the quality of the data sent to EGR is assured as follows:
the data are validated before sending them to Eurostat, according to the rules provided;
data from enterprise groups survey are checked before dissemination to Statistical Business Register purposes.
The EGR quality management is based on a set of coordinated procedures between the business registers team in the National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) and Eurostat.
The quality of the data files sent by NSIs is validated twice:
Business registers team in NSIs must validate data files before sending them to Eurostat, according to the provided validation rules
Automatic validation of the files are handled by the platform EDAMIS (europa.eu) use by the NSIs to send their files to EGR.
The quality of the EGR data during the process is checked by Eurostat and validated by NSIs under request. When errors are identified, Eurostat corrects them or if necessary notifies the respective business register team of the NSI.
The final EGR frame is validated by Eurostat before any dissemination. The EGR quality is part of the data quality programme (DQP) for European statistical business registers.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
The quality assessment procedure includes:
automatic validation procedures to check coherence between statistical units and their variables;
data format and logical content of data;
crosschecks with other sources and data from previous years.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
The EGR provides harmonised information on multinational enterprise groups and their enterprises in the EU and EFTA countries. The statistical users can use EGR coordinated frame populations to derive consistent statistical output with an improved quality in measuring global activities of European enterprises that are part of multinational enterprise groups. Multinational enterprise groups' information is used for statistics related to globalisation, such as Statistics on foreign affiliates (FATS), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Gross National Income (GNI).
The EGR country specific frames are used as a basis for national profiling of the complex multinational enterprise groups.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
EGR data have been improved in the recent years which is shown by the indicators concerning FATS and the EGR population.
12.3. Completeness
The completeness of EGR final frame is annually assessed by Eurostat. The EGR assessment results are provided to EU Member States and EFTA countries.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
The accuracy of the EGR frame is evaluated in collaboration between NSIs and Eurostat. Eurostat performs crosscutting checks on the initial and the preliminary frame and produces reports to assess the data quality and ensure the accuracy. In the event that potential misclassification or duplicates has been spotted, as an example, Eurostat contacts the involved NSI(s) for checking and potential correction during the repair phases to insure EGR final frame accuracy.
On Eurostat`s request Statistics Poland sends files that contain information on REL (relationships between subsidiary and paretnatl LEUs), LEL (relations between LEUs and ENTs), ENT (name, number and basic data for ENT), LEU (data on LEUs).
Repair phase was done in EGR IM.
The accuracy of the data transmitted to the EGR is:
Units
Assessment
Legal units
Very Good
Relationships between legal units
Good
Enterprises characteristics
Good
Enterprises perimeters
Good
Multinational enterprise group (with Global decision centre in my country)
Good
Provide the reasons of your assessment
The size of differences between NSBR and repair files sent by Eurostat is not substantial, so generally we assess data transmitted to the EGR as good.
This accuracy assessment is based on:
files control in terms of data and structure correctness according to the Eurostat`s validation rules
assessment of the staff that deals with repairs of the MNEs structures
Describe the main sources of errors, by type of units, and provide a summary assessment of all errors with special focus on the impact.
The main issues regarding accuracy of the data and issue importance are as follows:
Units
Issue
Assessment
Legal units
No importantissues
Small impact
Relationships between legal units
Different parents according to Polish and Eurostat`s sources
Medium impact
Enterprises characteristics
No important issues
Small impact
Enterprise perimeter
Eurostat sends data on ENTs, which according to the Polish sources doesn`t exist anymore
Small impact
Multinational enterprise group (with Global decision centre in my country)
Statistics Poland does not includes small MNEs (of 2 or 3 LEUs) in Enterprise Groups Survey. Eurostat includes these LEUs and treated it as a Gap in the frame.
Medium impact
Describe the actions taken to improve the accuracy.
The actions taken to reduce bias (if any) and to improve accuracy of the data are as follows:
Regarding MNEs – Statistics Poland adds these small groups to the automatic profiling file which Enterprise Groups Survey does not includes.
Regarding relationships between legal units – the main differences in parent units according to Polish and Eurostat`s sources are corrected by Statistics Poland basing on Polish administrative sources.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
The EGR process refers to a reference year T and is run yearly over a period of 11 months, between May T+1 and March T+2.
14.2. Punctuality
Data transmitted to the EGR during the cycle is on time. The punctuality is maintained
15.1. Comparability - geographical
EGR frame data gives the same picture of multinational enterprise groups as that which prevents double data counting for statistical units on geographical territory.
15.2. Comparability - over time
There is no significant changes in comparability over time regarding EGR for Polish MNEs or for MNEs with Polish LEUs.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
Coherence of data sent to Eurostat with other data sources and statistical domains:
FATS populations and BR groups population sent to Eurostat are different. Some legal units do not have ID numbers and that’s why there is not possibility to send them from BR to the EGR. Methodology of FATS and BR is different.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Data sent to EGR should be internally consistent. There is a set of standard quality checks that are routinely perform at national level before transmitting the data to Eurostat:
FATS population and BR population are analysed and appropriate changes are applied.
Not available.
17.1. Data revision - policy
Not applicable
17.2. Data revision - practice
Not applicable
18.1. Source data
The data sources are following:
survey on enterprise groups, outputs of profiling process, National Court Register including annual financial statements on groups and its legal units.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
National data sent to EGR annually
18.3. Data collection
Data sent to EGR are collected from:
National Statistical business registers
Administrative data sources
National Court Register
Profiling process
Survey on enterprise groups
18.4. Data validation
Initial validations are conduct according to Eurostat guidelines.
Validations on structures files are conduct in SDMX.
18.5. Data compilation
Imputation is not conducted.
18.6. Adjustment
Not applicable.
Statistics Poland do not have addittional comments regarding this report.
The EuroGroups register (EGR) is the statistical business register of Eurostat and the EU Member States and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries for multinational enterprise groups. The purpose of the EGR is to offer to statistical users a tool for coordinating frame population, to derive consistent statistical output with an improved quality in measuring global activities of European enterprises part of multinational enterprise groups.
The EGR produces data in yearly cycles and covers microdata on the groups and their enterprises and legal units. The EGR aims to register all multinational enterprise groups that have enterprises in EU Member States or EFTA countries, including European and non-European groups.
The Member States, EFTA countries and Eurostat exchange data on multinational enterprise groups and on the units belonging to those groups for the purposes of the European framework for statistical business registers to ensure the quality of the multinational enterprise group’s information in the Union.
The EGR brings together microdata on multinational enterprise groups from the EU and the EFTA countries' national statistical institutes, in line with the requirements of the Regulation (EU) No 2152/2019, and from a commercial data source for data outside the EU and EFTA.
8 May 2025
Global group head
The global group head (GGH) of an enterprise group is the parent legal unit that is not controlled either directly or indirectly by any other legal unit. The subsidiary legal units of a subsidiary legal unit are considered to be subsidiaries of the parent legal unit.
Global decision centre
The global decision centre (GDC) of an enterprise group is the unit where the enterprise group level’s strategic decisions are taken. A group may have several decision-making centres or several units dedicated to a particular internal function, for example accounting or human resources. However, the decisions about the group are made only in the GDC. The GDC may be the GGH or another legal unit under the GGH.
Ultimate Controlling Institutional unit
The ultimate controlling institutional unit (UCI) of a foreign affiliate means the institutional unit higher up a foreign affiliate’s chain of control that is not controlled by another institutional unit.
Activity of unit
A statistical unit is considered to have been active during the reference period, if in said period it either realized positive net turnover or produced outputs or had employees or performed investments.
A legal unit can be legally or administratively active without any economic activity, when the inactive legal unit is part of an enterprise in combination with economically active legal units. Holding assets and/or liabilities shall also be regarded as an economic activity.
Number of employees
Number of persons employed is defined as the total number of persons who work in the unit, including wage-earners and self-employed persons (i.e., working proprietors, partners working regularly in the unit and unpaid family workers) as well as persons who work outside the unit but who belong to it and are paid by it (e.g., sales representatives, delivery personnel, repair and maintenance teams). It excludes manpower supplied to the unit by other enterprises, persons carrying out repair and maintenance work in the unit on behalf of other enterprises, as well as those on compulsory military service.
Number of employees and self -employed persons
The number of employees and self-employed persons is the sum of the number of employees and number of self- employed persons. The number of self-employed persons is the number of persons who were at some time during the reference period the sole owners or joint owners of the statistical unit in which they work.
Net turnover
Turnover comprises the totals invoiced by the observation unit during the reference period, and this corresponds to market sales of goods or services supplied to third parties. Turnover also includes all other charges (transport, packaging, etc.) passed on to the customer, even if these charges are listed separately in the invoice. Turnover excludes VAT and other similar deductible taxes directly linked to turnover as well as all duties and taxes on the goods or services invoiced by the unit. Reduction in prices, rebates and discounts as well as the value of returned packing are not taken into account. Income classified as other operating income, financial income and extraordinary income in company accounts is excluded from turnover
Total assets
The total assets refers to the sum of the balance sheet items at the end of the accounting period. It covers economic assets, which are divided into financial and non-financial assets
Principal activity
The principal (or main) activity is the activity that contributes most to the total value added of a unit under consideration. Ideally, the principal activity of the unit should be determined with reference to the value added to the goods and services produced, by applying the top-down method. The topdown method follows a hierarchical principle: the classification of the unit at the lowest level of the classification must be consistent with the classification of the unit at higher levels. The principal activity so identified does not necessarily account for 50 % or more of the unit’s total value added. In the European Union the classification of principal activity is determined by reference to NACE Rev. 2, first at the highest level of classification and then at more detailed levels (top-down method).
The statistical units maintained in the EGR are defined in accordance with the Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community.
The EGR frame contains the following units: Legal units, Enterprises and Multinational enterprise groups.
Legal units include:
- legal persons whose existence is recognized by law independently of the individuals or institutions which may own them or are members of them,
- natural persons who are engaged in an economic activity in their own right.
The legal unit always forms, either by itself or sometimes in combination with other legal units, the legal basis for the statistical unit known as the 'enterprise'.
Enterprise
The enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units that is an organizational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations. An enterprise may be a sole legal unit.
Multinational enterprise group
A multinational enterprise group is an enterprise group that has at least two enterprises or legal units located in different countries. In business statistics also term ‘global enterprise group’ is used.
The data transmitted to the EGR during the cycle is made of the following datasets.
The data set with information on all incorporated resident legal units for the EGR Identification Service.
ISRLE file includes full. population of resident legal units is sent to EGR for identification.
The data set with information on foreign legal units for the EGR Identification Service.
ISNORLE file including full population of foreign legal unit recorded in national statistical business register is sent to EGR for identification.
The data set with information on legal units.
LEU file including full resident legal unit belonging to a global enterprise group is sent to EGR for processing.
The data set with information on relationships of ownership and control.
REL file including complete relationships between legal units is sent to EGR for processing:
two resident legal units
one resident and one foreign legal unit
two foreign legal units from non EU+EFTA countries.
Relationships in the REL are:
control relationships (>50%) complete
minority relationships (<50%) is not applicable
The data set with information on enterprises.
ENT file including full enterprises made of legal unit sent in LEU files is sent to EGR for processing.
The Data set with information on links between enterprises and legal units.
LEL file including full links between enterprise (ENT) and legal units (LEU) is sent to EGR for processing.
The Data set with information on enterprise groups of which country is the GDC country for the EuroGroups Register.
GEG file including data sources available for Statistics Poland: survey on enterprise groups, National Court Register on groups data is sent to the EGR for processing.
The groups’ variables are updated after receiving the preliminary frame:
names, total assets, turnover, employment, activity code NACE
The reference area for EGR is the territory of all countries in which legal units belonging to enterprise groups operate.
The reference period for data sent to the EGR reflects the picture of 31 December of the given reference year.
Data transmitted to EGR during the EGR 2023 cycle includes data for the 2023 reference year. The identification, economic variables (number of employees, turnover and economic activity) refer to the 2023 reference year.
The accuracy of the EGR frame is evaluated in collaboration between NSIs and Eurostat. Eurostat performs crosscutting checks on the initial and the preliminary frame and produces reports to assess the data quality and ensure the accuracy. In the event that potential misclassification or duplicates has been spotted, as an example, Eurostat contacts the involved NSI(s) for checking and potential correction during the repair phases to insure EGR final frame accuracy.
On Eurostat`s request Statistics Poland sends files that contain information on REL (relationships between subsidiary and paretnatl LEUs), LEL (relations between LEUs and ENTs), ENT (name, number and basic data for ENT), LEU (data on LEUs).
Repair phase was done in EGR IM.
The accuracy of the data transmitted to the EGR is:
Units
Assessment
Legal units
Very Good
Relationships between legal units
Good
Enterprises characteristics
Good
Enterprises perimeters
Good
Multinational enterprise group (with Global decision centre in my country)
Good
Provide the reasons of your assessment
The size of differences between NSBR and repair files sent by Eurostat is not substantial, so generally we assess data transmitted to the EGR as good.
This accuracy assessment is based on:
files control in terms of data and structure correctness according to the Eurostat`s validation rules
assessment of the staff that deals with repairs of the MNEs structures
Describe the main sources of errors, by type of units, and provide a summary assessment of all errors with special focus on the impact.
The main issues regarding accuracy of the data and issue importance are as follows:
Units
Issue
Assessment
Legal units
No importantissues
Small impact
Relationships between legal units
Different parents according to Polish and Eurostat`s sources
Medium impact
Enterprises characteristics
No important issues
Small impact
Enterprise perimeter
Eurostat sends data on ENTs, which according to the Polish sources doesn`t exist anymore
Small impact
Multinational enterprise group (with Global decision centre in my country)
Statistics Poland does not includes small MNEs (of 2 or 3 LEUs) in Enterprise Groups Survey. Eurostat includes these LEUs and treated it as a Gap in the frame.
Medium impact
Describe the actions taken to improve the accuracy.
The actions taken to reduce bias (if any) and to improve accuracy of the data are as follows:
Regarding MNEs – Statistics Poland adds these small groups to the automatic profiling file which Enterprise Groups Survey does not includes.
Regarding relationships between legal units – the main differences in parent units according to Polish and Eurostat`s sources are corrected by Statistics Poland basing on Polish administrative sources.
The economic variables on employment are recorded in absolute figures.
The net turnover for enterprises is recorded in EUR currency.
The net turnover and net total asset for enterprise groups is recorded in millions in EUR currency.
Imputation is not conducted.
The data sources are following:
survey on enterprise groups, outputs of profiling process, National Court Register including annual financial statements on groups and its legal units.
Not applicable.
The EGR process refers to a reference year T and is run yearly over a period of 11 months, between May T+1 and March T+2.
EGR frame data gives the same picture of multinational enterprise groups as that which prevents double data counting for statistical units on geographical territory.
There is no significant changes in comparability over time regarding EGR for Polish MNEs or for MNEs with Polish LEUs.
