Targeted entity
Foreign companies inside the KSA having a foreign capital shareholding of 10% or more.
About the survey
Ministry of Investment (MISA) seeks to support the private sector in the KSA by developing FDI. Therefore, MISA has electronically carried out the direct survey directed to the companies having FDIs inside the KSA during the referred-to quarter, Best international standards and methodologies are applied.
Survey objective
To obtain accurate and comprehensive data on FDI flows inside the KSA according to The International Classification for the Economic Activities (ISIC4), to properly forecast the future developments in order to enable the decision makers to develop encouraging policies which help enhance the economic activities and the private sector, and to come up with solutions appropriate to the challenges facing the companies. The survey primarily aims to generate data on FDI flows, stocks, and investment income inside KSA, in a way that improves the statistics internationally published about the KSA.
Description of the requested data
The survey includes a number of questions about some descriptive variables and characteristics of each company such as: the date of establishment, the commercial registry, economic activity, geographic area (company location), company branches, company shareholder structure, and some financial variables related on the equities, assets and liabilities of the company, which are associated with the with the company's foreign shareholders, affiliates and subsidiaries of the direct investment enterprises.
