Introduction
6.1. Chapter 6 describes enterprise and establishment surveys, which are needed to collect data for the compilation of statistics on resident and non-resident transactions in services and FATS. The chapter promotes an integrated approach to the organization and conduct of the surveys, keeping the response burden as low as possible and linking trade in services and business statistics. The chapter contains the following sections: a general description of enterprise and establishment surveys (section A); surveys of resident/non-resident services transactions (section B); FATS and the international supply of services (section C); and trade in services surveys with links to FATS and FDI (section D).
In this chapter:
- A. Summary of good practices (Chapter 6)
- B. General purpose and description of enterprise or establishment surveys
- C. Enterprise and establishment surveys for trade in services statistics purposes
- C.1. Generic trade in services surveys
- C.2. Transportation surveys
- C.3. Manufacturing services surveys
- C.4. Surveys of insurance and financial corporations
- C.5 Research and development and innovation surveys
- C.6. Surveys of tourism activities
- C.7. Construction surveys
- C.8. Other specific surveys, including health, legal and information technology-enabled)
- D. Foreign affiliate statistics and the international supply of services