A new page featuring the Informal Sector Enterprise Surveys is now available

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Enterprise Surveys offers an expansive array of economic data on 219,000 firms in 159 economies

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Bribery incidence varies widely by economy. 

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Enterprise Surveys offers an expansive array of economic data on 219,000 firms in 159 economies

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World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) are nationally representative firm-level surveys, with top managers and owners of businesses interviewed using a globally comparable questionnaire that covers a broad range of business environment topics as well as firms’ characteristics and performance measures. All information collected through the WBES—raw granular data, the WBES indicators at the firm and economy level—are made publicly available upon completion of the surveys through our website and data portal. The website currently contains a total of 355 WBES collected through a consistent methodology across the world, 12 Informal Sector Enterprise Surveys covering 38 cities, and other surveys, along with the cross-economy databases. The compendium of all publicly available data is here.

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Enterprise Surveys launch a new round of data collection in more than 60 economies. Interviews with firms have started, collecting data to help understand the business environment in more than 60 economies.


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Data Updates

The World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) team has released new survey data for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Estonia, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Samoa, and Togo.

 

All datasets are available on the data portal. The status of the ongoing WBES can be found on the current projects page.



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SURVEY PROJECTS

We are currently gathering data in 68 economies around the world. Explore current and future WBES projects »


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INTRODUCTION TO ENTERPRISE SURVEYS





GLOBAL INDICATORS AND ANALYSIS

Enterprise Surveys is part of Global Indicators Group.


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