Enterprise Survey 2006

Uruguay, 2006

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Reference ID

URY_2006_ES_v01_M_WB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/tghd-9p79

Producer(s)

World Bank

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys

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Mar 30, 2011

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most serious obstacle affecting the operation of this establishment (m1a)

Data file: Uruguay-2006--full data-

Overview

Valid: 621

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1020

End: 1021

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 15

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

1) READ THE FOLLOWING TO THE RESPONDENT BEFORE PROCEEDING: The next set of questions is designed to get a general picture of your opinion about the business environment that affects your operations.
2) SHOW CARD

Literal question

You have indicated that several obstacles affect the operation of this establishment. Here is a card with the obstacles I mentioned throughout the interview (HAND RESPONDENT CARD LISTING ALL FACTORS). Please tell me the three that you think are currently the biggest problem, beginning with the worst of all three.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	don’t know	0	0%
-7	does not apply	13	2.1%
1	access to finance	63	10.1%
2	access to land	3	0.5%
3	business licensing and permits	15	2.4%
4	corruption	12	1.9%
5	crime, theft and disorder	30	4.8%
6	customs and trade regulations	5	0.8%
7	electricity	24	3.9%
8	functioning of the courts	2	0.3%
9	inadequately educated workforce	12	1.9%
10	labor regulations	34	5.5%
11	macroeconomic instability	63	10.1%
12	political instability	27	4.3%
13	practices of competitors in the informal sector	189	30.4%
14	tax administration	16	2.6%
15	tax rates	112	18%
16	transportation	1	0.2%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

Self-explanatory

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