Indicators of activity of Latvian affiliates abroad

Data on indicators of activity of Latvian affiliates abroad are used to obtain information on the number of such enterprises, number of employees and turnover abroad in breakdown by kind of economic activity and region.

Indicators of activity of foreign affiliates in Latvia are published on the basis of the following classifications:

• Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community, Rev. 2 (NACE Rev. 2);
• Country codes and codes for their subdivisions (ISO 3166-1).

Covers NACE Rev. 2 classification section B-S with the exception of O and S94.

The statistics refer to Latvian enterprises with a subsidiaries or branches abroad.

All economically active Latvian enterprises with a subsidiaries or branches abroad.

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Data are available since 2008.

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• number;
• thsd euro.

Annual data.

From 2021:

• Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics;
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics.

Until 2020:

• Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates;
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 364/2008 implementing Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the technical format for the transmission of foreign affiliates statistics and the derogations to be granted to Member States;
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 747/2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates, as regards the definitions of characteristics and the implementation of NACE Rev. 2;
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 834/2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates, as regards the quality reports.

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Confidentiality of the information provided is protected by Statistics Law: 

• Section 7, Paragraph two, Clause 8, which sets out the obligation of the statistical institution to ensure statistical confidentiality;
• Section 17, which defines the procedures for data processing and the requirements for data protection;
• Section 19, Paragraph one, which stipulates that official statistics must be disseminated in a way that does not allow either directly or indirectly identify a private individual or a State institution;
• Section 19, Paragraph two, which stipulates that the statistical institution shall publish the official statistics which have been produced within the framework of the Official Statistics Programme in a publicly available form and by a predetermined deadline on the portal of official statistics. Until the moment of publication of official statistics this statistics shall not be published

Primary confidentiality

Confidential cells in business statistics are identified using the minimum frequency rule and the dominance (n, k) rule. A cell is considered safe when it is based on at least four contributors (n = 4) and when the share of the largest contributor does not exceed 80 % (1.80), or the combined share of the two largest contributors does not exceed 90 % (2.90).

Secondary confidentiality

To protect aggregated data, secondary confidentiality is applied to supress additional cells, thereby safeguarding the primary confidential cells. Secondary confidential cells are selected to provide adequate protection while minimizing information loss.

Methods used to determine secondary confidentiality:

1. automatic secondary suppression using T-Argus software;
2. manual selection of additional secondary cells.

All official statistics are released according to the data release calendar at 13:00

Data dissemination calendar

Statistical release dates and times are pre-announced in the data dissemination calendar.

Data are published once per year.

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Statistics database

For research purposes, anonymized individual data are available through remote access. Depending on the data processing methods required, datasets may be used on the researcher's own infrastructure (OffSite) or via the CSB remote access system (OnSite). Data are provided upon submission of application and, if the CSB issues a positive decision, the conclusion of a contract. Anonymized individual data may be used only for scientific or research purposes, and the research results must provide a benefit to society.

Individual data, or microdata, relate to individual persons, households or enterprises and are obtained from surveys, population censuses and administrative registers.

Research data catalogue

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From 2021:

• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics.
•  European business statistics compilers’ manual for foreign affiliates statistics.

Until 2020:

• Commission Regulation (EC) No 747/2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates, as regards the definitions of characteristics and the implementation of NACE Rev. 2;
• Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics (FATS) Recommendations Manual 3rd edition.

Metadata produced by Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union).

To achieve high user satisfaction and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, the CSB has introduced a Quality Management System (QMS). The system defines and, at the procedural level, describes processes of statistical production and identifies the persons responsible for their monitoring throughout all production stages. Its structure follows the principles of the Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM).

The QMS sets out the sequence in which processes are implemented – that is, the activities to be performed, including verifications of processes and produced statistics, the order and implementation requirements of these activities, and the persons responsible for their execution. It also defines the approach to evaluating production processes and their outcomes, and to implementing necessary improvements.

The CSB quality management system is certified to the ISO 9001:2015 standard Quality management systems — Requirements since 2018 (scope of certification: development, production and dissemination of official statistics). The original certification audit was performed by BM Trada Latvija SIA and a recertification audit, in 2024, was performed by Bureau Veritas Latvia SIA.

The CSB information security management system is certified to the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Information security management systems — Requirements since 2017 (scope of certification: collection, processing and storage of information and data for functions of the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Provision of statistical information for inland and foreign users). The original certification audit was performed by BM Certification SIA and a recertification audit, in 2024, was performed by Bureau Veritas Latvia SIA.

The quality of statistics is assessed in accordance with the existing requirements of both external and internal regulatory enactments, as well as the established quality criteria.

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European statistics stipulates that European statistics shall be developed, produced and disseminated on the basis of uniform standards and harmonised methods. In this context, the following quality criteria shall apply: relevance, accuracy, timeliness, punctuality, accessibility, clarity, comparability and coherence.

As the national statistical institute and the principal authority of the national statistical system, the CSB has set common general institutional-level quality requirements for authorities responsible for producing or providing national statistics. These requirements are based on the European Statistics Code of Practice, which comprises 16 principles.

The overall assessment of data quality is good.

Data users are the European Commission and international organisations, ministries, chambers of commerce, trade unions, journalists, researchers and others. The needs of the data users go beyond what can be provided by the data producers.

The task of the CSB is to produce reliable statistics to support the analysis of socio-economic processes and to inform future decision-making.

Send feedback on data quality to pasts@csp.gov.lv

Accuracy fully complies with Council Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197.

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20 months

Data are prepared and published according to the data dissemination calendar.

The data are comparable across all EU countries. Data on activities of Latvian affiliates abroad are published on Eurostat website here: Globalisation in business statistics.

Comparable data are available for the time period since 2008.

The data are coherent with structural business statistics.

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Statistical data are coherent.

One of the CSB priorities, in line with the strategic directions of the European Statistics System and current approaches to producing statistics, is to collect data through broader use of administrative sources together with regular CSB surveys, while proportionately reducing response burden.

In cooperation with administrative data holders and within the competences set out in the Statistics Law, CSB is addressing the issues related to the use of administrative data to ensure that the sources used are as complete and reliable as possible, helping to reduce the administrative burden on businesses and households.

CSB measures to improve the use of administrative data and reduce response burden (2024) – available in Latvian only.

Priority Action Plan for Reducing Bureaucracy (to be implemented by 31 December 2025) – available in Latvian only.

Summary of the Implementation of the Priority Action Plan as at 1 June 2026 – available in Latvian only.

Revision policy is an important component of good governance practice. The aim of the CSB Revision Policy is to define how the statistics produced and published by the CSB are reviewed and revised. The first chapter explains the main terms used in the document, the second chapter provides a brief description of the CSB Revision Policy, and the third chapter outlined the revision cycle for the statistics produced by the CSB.

Revision policy guidelines (8 September 2022, PDF, 597 KB)

Published data are final and are not reviewed, excluding cases when significant mistakes are found in enterprise reports.

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Data on indicators of activity of Latvian affiliates abroad are obtained conducting a full-scope survey. Data are compiled from:

• The CSB survey Report on activities of a foreign affiliate;
• The EuroGroups register (EGR) (hosted by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union).

Annual.

All economically active Latvian enterprises with a subsidiaries or branches abroad.

Sample size

The data analysis process is related to data verification. The examination of summary data is carried out following the examination and correction of the data at pre-data level and the preparation of the data summaries.

The summary data are being verified using multiple methods:

1. a comparison of indicators with data from the previous period;
2. a comparison of indicators with the European Groups Register database;
3. an examination of logical relationships between indicators within one and multiple data series.

Calculation methods

The main published indicators are turnover, number of persons employed, number of enterprises.

The number of enterprises includes the number of enterprises controlled by Latvia abroad.

Turnover item of Profit or Loss Statement "net turnover" minus operating subsidies.

Number of employed persons is expressed as an average annual indicators.

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