| Line | Millions of dollars | Number of employees (thousands) | ||
| Total assets | Sales | |||
| Parents | ||||
| 1 | 1993 level | 6,053,306 | 3,480,778 | 17,536.9 |
| 2 |  Total
change | 573,656 | 476,296 | 1,410.5 |
| 3 | Benchmark
revisions/1/ | 454,429 | 447,877 | 1,408.9 |
| 4 | Actual
changes in parent operations in 1994 | 119,227 | 28,419 | 1.6 |
| 5 | New
parents/2/ | 65,487 | 38,301 | 179.8 |
| 6 | Changes
in existing operations | 76,831 | 18,381 | 43.4 |
| 7 | Sales
or liquidations/3/ | -23,091 | -28,263 | -221.6 |
| 8 | 1994 level | 6,626,962 | 3,957,074 | 18,947.4 |
| Affiliates | ||||
| 9 | 1993 level | 2,047,307 | 1,570,563 | 6,684.6 |
| 10 | Total
change | 312,657 | 184,289 | 273.1 |
| 11 | Benchmark
revisions/1/ | 96,091 | 62,657 | 387.1 |
| 12 | Actual
changes in affiliate operations in 1994 | 216,566 | 121,632 | -114.0 |
| 13 | New
affiliates | 64,334 | 21,320 | 182.9 |
| Of
which: | ||||
| 14 | Acquisitions |
35,308 | 12,537 | 122.7 |
| 15 | Establishments |
29,026 | 8,783 | 60.2 |
| 16 | Changes
in existing operations | 176,255 | 108,578 | -114.6 |
| 17 | Sales
or liquidations | -24,023 | -8,266 | -182.3 |
| 18 | 1994 level | 2,359,964 | 1,754,852 | 6,957.7 |
| Percent | ||||
| Addenda: | ||||
| Benchmark revisions as a percentage of 1994 level: | ||||
| 19 | Parents |
7 | 11 | 7 |
| 20 | Affiliates |
4 | 4 | 6 |
| Benchmark revisions as a percentage of 1993-94 change: | ||||
| 21 | Parents |
79 | 94 | 100 |
| 22 | Affiliates |
31 | 34 | n.m. |
1. Includes some actual changes in parent and affiliate operations that could not be allocated because of incomplete information. For a description of the sources of benchmark revisions, see appendix.
2. This line represents parents that established or acquired their first foreign affiliate in 1994.
3. This line represents parents that sold or liquidated their last foreign affiliate in 1994.
NOTE.—Lines 6 and 16 include changes resulting from parents or affiliates acquiring, establishing, selling, or liquidating parts of their consolidated operations. BEA permits survey respondents to fully consolidate their parent operations and to consolidate affiliate operations that are in the same country and industry or that are integral parts of a single business operation.
n.m. Not meaningful.
