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.
| Dataset type: | Time-Series |
| Dataset level: | Country |
(The World Bank,
2023)
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. This measure uses data from 6 survey questions for each firm. For purposes of computation, a refusal to answer a particular survey question is considered an affirmative answer.
More about this variableThe percent of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request across 6 public transactions dealing with utilities access, permits, licenses, and taxes.
More about this variablePercentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments to get a construction permit.
More about this variablePercentage of firms identifying corruption as a "major" or "very severe" obstacle.
More about this variablePercentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments to get an electrical connection.
More about this variablePercentage 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.
More about this variablePercentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments during meetings with tax officials.
More about this variablePercentage 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 customs, taxes, licenses, regulations, services etc.
More about this variablePercentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments to get an import license.
More about this variablePercent of firms competing against unregistered or informal firms.
More about this variablePercentage of firms identifying practices of competitors in the informal sector as major constraint. The computation of the indicator is based on the rating of the obstacle as a potential constraint to the current operations of the establishment.
More about this variableAverage 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 country.
More about this variablePercent of firms identifying the court system as a major constraint.
More about this variablePercentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments to get an operating license. Spontaneous refusals to the question are treated as a “Yes”.
More about this variablePercentage 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 customs, taxes, licenses, regulations, services etc.
More about this variablePercentage of firms formally registered when they started operations in the country.
More about this variablePercentage of firms expected to give gifts or informal payments to get a water connection.
More about this variable