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This survey collects information on the activities of U.S. affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises, which offer details on the finances and operations of these affiliates, including their employment and compensation, sales, value added, capital expenditures, trade in goods, and expenditures for research and development. The benchmark BE-12 survey collects some direct investment data that is used in BEA's International Transactions Accounts and International Investment Position Accounts that isn't collected on the annual BE-15 survey. Also, the amount of detail available for some of the categories of information collected is greater in the benchmark survey BE-12 than in the annual BE-15 survey.

Data Access

Fees

No fees for accessing data directly through BEA. Fees for accessing BEA data through the FSRDC network are about $7,500 for the first year of the project and $2,000 for subsequent years. See https://www.bea.gov/help/faq/1313 for more information

Usage restrictions

Researchers must be U.S. citizens (U.S. residency is not sufficient) and cannot be employed at for-profit businesses, Federal government agencies that are not designated as a statistical agency or unit by the Office of Management and Budget, or government or other organizations engaged in tax collection, regulatory enforcement, or policymaking. The data cannot be used for purposes of taxation, investigation, or regulation. The data may not be presented in any way that allows individual survey respondents to be identified and cannot be combined with external data if the resulting combined dataset would contain information beyond the scope of the data items collected in BEA's surveys.

Public Use File available

Geography differs from restricted-use file (RUF)

Variable detail differs from Restricted Use File (RUF)

Benchmark Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (Form BE-12)

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Data Access