Overview
Survey Name
- Survey of Business Activities
Survey Type
- Survey statistics
Type of Statistics
- Designated statistics (Approval No. 101066)
Purpose
- To provide basic data required for making various economic policies and for studying management strategies and changes in industrial structures by grasping the various kinds of business activities (business results, diversification, systematization, achievement management system, etc.) comprehensively
Frequency
- Annual
Target Population
- Target industries: All industries
- Target population: Among the corporations that are doing business activities in Korea as of the survey reference date, those with at least 50 full-time employees and 300 million KRW or more capital stock. (In the meantime, as for enterprises in 'Wholesale and Retail Trade', service industries and other service industries, enterprises with capital stock of 1 billion won or more are included in the target population even though they have 49 full-time employees or less.)
Survey Unit and Target Population Size
- Survey unit: Corporations
- Target population size: Approx. 15,000
Survey Reference Period and Date
- Survey reference period: Jan. 1 ~ Dec. 31
- Reference date: Dec. 31
History
- Carried out the first survey in 2006 (Reference year: 2005)
- Carried out the 15th survey in 2020 (Reference year: 2019)
Survey Item
- Basic information, number of workers, type of legal organization, tangible and intangible assets, information on affiliated companies, transaction among domestic and overseas enterprises, business management direction
Data Collection Method
- On-site interviewing method (self-interviewing by respondents) as well as the Internet survey
Survey System
- Statistics Korea ↔ Regional Offices of Statistics (District Offices of Statistics) ↔ enumerators ↔ enterprises
Data Provision
Method of Publication and URL
- Media (Press releases), publications, website (https://kostat.go.kr), KOSIS (https://kosis.kr)
Publication Frequency
- Annual
Publication Title
- Report on the Survey of Business Activities
