World Bank Group Country Survey 2022

The results in this year’s Country Survey were compared to those in the Country Survey conducted in FY’19 (response rate was 52%, N=202). Comparing responses across Country Surveys reflect changes in attitudes over time, but also changes in respondent samples and changes to the survey instrument itself. To reduce the influence of the latter factor, only those questions with similar response scales/options were analyzed. In interpreting the findings of the past-year comparison analyses, however, the differences in stakeholder group representation (in particular, there was a much larger sample of media respondents in FY’22) as well as in respondents’ specialization (i.e., respondents in FY’19 indicated their primary specializations as “finance and markets” (25%), “macroeconomics and fiscal management” (16%), and “health, nutrition, and population” (12%) whereas respondents in FY’22 indicated “macroeconomics and fiscal management” (22%), “generalist” (10%), and “other” (10%)) should be taken into consideration when interpreting the results. That is, some changes in ratings over time may be partially due to changes in the respondents who completed the survey in FY’22 versus those who responded in FY’19. The distribution of respondent samples from the FY’19 and FY’22 Country Surveys used in the year comparisons analyses are listed in the table in the Methodology section of the survey report.