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The IMF’s CDIS
- The IMF’s CDIS is a worldwide statistical data collection effort to provide bilateral direct investment positions data by immediate counterpart economies and to improve the quality of direct investment position statistics in the international investment position (IIP).
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OECD International Direct Investment Statistics gives access to a comprehensive set of statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) into and out of OECD countries. The data are presented in a standardised format combining sectoral and geographical breakdowns for flow and stock data from 1982 onwards.
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Canada's international investment position is the statistical statement that presents at a point in time the value and composition of Canadian financial assets with non-residents and Canadian financial liabilities to non-residents. Canadian international financial assets are owned by Canadian residents whereas Canadian international financial liabi...
Target population
The universe for the international investment position includes all investors that reside in Canada and hold assets with non-residents, as well as all investors that reside in Canada and have liabilities to non-residents. The investors can be businesses, governments, non-profit institutions, or households. Most of the data used to derive the international investment position originate from surveys of Canadian companies that are asked to consolidate all of their Canadian operations and accordi...
Instrument design
There are several questionnaires that collect data that are used directly for compiling Canada's international investment position. These are: BP-CIA - Canadian Investment Abroad (annual) BP-FIC - Foreign Investment in Canada(annual) BP-STRUC - Structure of Canadian Companies in the Reporting Enterprise BP-22 - Investment in Canada by non-Canadian corporations (annual) BP-27 - Transactions between Canadian incorporated insurance companies and their foreign affiliates, agencies and bank accoun...
Sampling
Questionnaires dealing with direct investment or other investment are sent to Canadian enterprises known to have or believed to have significant international assets or liabilities, whereas the questionnaire dealing with portfolio investment is sent to institutional investors and financial intermediaries. There are roughly 2,500 firms that meet the sampling criteria for questionnaires dealing with direct investment or other investment, while there are approximately 500 firms that receive the...
Since survey data are complemented with administrative data, overall coverage is very high. Canada's International Investment Position estimates are generally deemed to be of high quality. Revisions tend to be small in most reference periods over time, including periods of annual benchmarking.
Latest Developments in the Canadian Economic Accounts For further information please refer to "Latest developments in the Canadian economic accounts", Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 13-605-X. The...User Guide: Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts This guide provides a detailed explanation of the structure, concepts and history of the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts. Last review...Summary methodology for the production of quarterly international investment positionsThe OECD provides operational guidelines on how FDI activity should be measured and sets global standards for collecting FDI statistics. The OECD also disseminates comprehensive and comparable FDI data as well as in-depth insights into global FDI trends to support economic analysis and inform policy decisions and enhance investment strategies.
Comprehensive and harmonized data on direct investment positions, broken down between equity and debt instruments, and for debt instruments further broken down between assets and liabilities, by economy of direct investor (DI, for inward direct investment), or of direct investment enterprise (DIENT, for outward direct investment). 2
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Canada reached a 15-year high in 2021. This section breaks down these results in greater detail. The figures use reported data from Statistics Canada and FDI activity data.
