​Foreign Affiliates Statistics (FATS)

Foreign Affiliates Statistics (FATS) is statistics describing the overall operations of foreign-controlled affiliates, which is a sub-category of the enterprises covered by foreign direct investment (FDI), that has majority ownership of voting power or controlled more than 50% by foreign affiliates.  Principal for recording FATS statistics is in line with manual on statistics of international trade in services 2010 (MSITS 2010), which is annually complied including a wide range of economic data both operational and financial variables based on their usefulness for trade policy needs and in analyzing economic phenomena.