Informal Survey 2010

Guatemala, 2010

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Reference ID

GTM_2010_InS_v01_M_WB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/c8jw-8a29

Producer(s)

Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys

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Jun 05, 2011

Last modified

Sep 26, 2013

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Which of the following represents the largest obstacle to registration (r3)

Data file: Guatemala-2010-Informal-full-data

Overview

Valid: 303

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 758

End: 759

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 7

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

INTERVIEWER: READ THE OPTIONS TWICE, ROTATING THE OPTIONS THE SECOND TIME THAT THEY ARE READ, NOTING THE NUMBER

Literal question

Which of the following elements represents the biggest obstacle for you to register this business with the SAT or the Registro Mercantil?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't Know	7	2.3%
1	Information & knowledge about registration	53	17.5%
2	Economic/time costs of registration	47	15.5%
3	Taxes that must be paid to register	82	27.1%
4	Inspections/Mtgs w/Govt Offcls to register	5	1.7%
5	Bribes registered businesses must pay	13	4.3%
6	Registration doesn't provide any benefit	91	30%
7	Info about registration only in Spanish	5	1.7%

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

Sensitive question, no clarification can be offered

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