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 Proportion of persons employed (%) of Enterprises with mostly foreign capital
Characteristic Description
Name Proportion of persons employed (%) of Enterprises with mostly foreign capital by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2002); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Foreign enterprises subsidiaries survey
First available period 2005
Last available period 2012
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2002)
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • PERSONS EMPLOYED:  Persons who during the reference period participated in the business of the enterprise/institution, regardless of the duration of this participation, under the following conditions: a) staff bound to the enterprise/institution by an employment contract, receiving remuneration in return; b) staff which has ties to the enterprise/institution, who, for not being bound by an employment contract, does not receive regular remuneration for the hours worked or the labour supplied (e.g. owner-managers, unpaid family workers, active members of cooperatives); c) staff with ties to other enterprises/institutions who worked at the enterprise/institution and receive remuneration directly from it; d) persons in the above situations, absent for a period of no more than one month due to holidays, labour dispute, vocational training, as well as disease and occupational accident. The following persons are not considered to be staff: i) those in the situations described in a), b), and c) above and who are absent for a period of over one month; ii) workers with ties to the enterprise/institution who moved to other enterprises/institutions, receiving remuneration directly from the latter; iii) workers in the enterprise/institution whose remuneration is borne by other enterprises/institutions (e.g. temporary workers); iv) self-employed workers (e.g. service providers, that use the so-called 'recibos verdes', which is the popular name of the receipt form).
  • ENTERPRISE:  Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
Definition Enterprises with more than 50% of foreign capital.
Formule [Persons employed of enterprises with mostly foreign capital (NACE Rev. 2, codes A to N excluding code K and codes P to S/ Persons employed of enterprises (NACE Rev. 2, codes A to N excluding code K and codes P to S)]*100
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations This indicator includes economic activities corresponding to NACE Rev. 2, codes A to N excluding code K and codes P to S.
Last update date 09/10/2014


information presented in 5/11/2025