Total changeNew parents/1/Changes in operations/2/Parents departing the universe/3/Other changes/4/| Line | Millions of dollars | |
| 1 | 1996 level | 1,480,638 |
| 2 | Total change | 89,852 |
| 3 | New parents/1/ | 22,253 |
| 4 | Changes in operations/2/ | 53,442 |
| 5 | Parents departing the universe/3/ | -4,905 |
| 6 | Other changes/4/ | 19,062 |
| 7 | 1997 level | 1,570,490 |
1. Parents that established or acquired their first foreign affiliate in 1997.
2. Consists of changes in existing operations and changes resulting from parents acquiring, establishing, selling, or liquidating parts of their consolidated operations. BEA generally requires survey respondents to fully consolidate their parent operations.
3. Parents that sold or liquidated their last foreign affiliate in 1997.
4. Equals the change in the gross product of parents not accounted for in lines 3-5. It includes changes resulting from the addition to the survey universe of parents that were required to report in earlier years but did not.