Structural statistics on enterprises with foreign production

The transition from business accounting to national accounts is carried out in this paper. The institutional units having a predominant economic interest in Italy are identified in particular for the sectors linked to Construction, Civil engineering works and Trade activities. A multivariate analysis of the economic variables (production, employment, labor costs, intermediate consumptions) allows to measure effective performance, both economic and financial, for global enterprises. Fiscal and statistical data with a profiling of these enterprises make possible to select a sub-set of medium and large sized units potentially interested in the phenomenon of foreign branch offices.