Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Financial and operating data

The financial and operating data provide a picture of the overall activities of U.S. affiliates and contain a wide variety of indicators of their financial structure and operations. The data cover the entire operations of the U.S. affiliate, irrespective of the percentage of foreign ownership. These data cover items that are needed in analyzing the characteristics, performance, and economic impact of multinational companies, such as sales, gross product (value added), employment and compensation of employees, capital expenditures, exports and imports, and research and development expenditures. Tables are published by country, by industry, and (for selected items) by State. More detailed tables by industry and State on affiliate operations at the establishment level are available for selected years as a result of a special project that linked the Bureau’s enterprise data for U.S. affiliates with the establishment data for all U.S. companies from the Bureau of the Census.