Data source: The World Bank
World Bank Enterprise Surveys offer an expansive array of economic data on 180,000 firms in 154 countries. The data is presented in a variety of ways useful to researchers, policy makers, journalists, and others.
Business environment and performance indicators are created by computing weighted averages of businesses’ responses to questions in the Enterprise Survey using sampling weights. Indicators are displayed at the country level but can be viewed by firm subgroups in the original source.
When using this dataset, please cite as:
(The World Bank,
2024)
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ens_brdep
The depth of Bribery is the percentage of instances in which a firm was either expected or requested to provide a gift or informal payment during solicitations for public services, licenses or permits ...
ens_brinc
The percent of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request across 6 public transactions dealing with utilities access, permits, licenses, and taxes.
ens_con
Percentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments to get a construction permit.
ens_cor
Percentage of firms identifying corruption as a "major" or "very severe" obstacle.
ens_el
Percentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments to get an electrical connection.
ens_gcon
Percentage of establishments that consider that firms with characteristics similar to theirs are making informal payments or giving gifts to public officials to secure government contract.
ens_gme
Percentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments during meetings with tax officials.
ens_gval
Percentage of establishments that consider that firms with characteristics similar to theirs are making informal payments or giving gifts to public officials to "get things done” with regard to custom ...
ens_iml
Percentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments to get an import license.
ens_infir
Percent of firms competing against unregistered or informal firms.
ens_info
Percentage of firms identifying practices of competitors in the informal sector as a major constraint. The computation of the indicator is based on the rating of the obstacle as a potential constraint ...
ens_inye
Average number of years firms operated without formal registration. This indicator is computed only for the firms that did not have a formal registration when they started their operations in the coun ...
ens_law
Percent of firms identifying the court system as a major constraint.
ens_opl
Percentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments to get an operating license. Spontaneous refusals to the question are treated as a “Yes”.
ens_oth
Percentage of establishments that consider that firms with characteristics similar to theirs are making informal payments or giving gifts to public officials to "get things done” with regard to custom ...
ens_reg
Percentage of firms formally registered when they started operations in the country.
ens_wat
Percentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments to get a water connection.