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World Bank Enterprise Survey 2024

United States, 2024 - 2025
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USA_2024_WBES_v01_M
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World Bank Group (WBG)
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Enterprise Surveys
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May 21, 2025
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  • United-States-2024-full-data.dta

Biggest Obstacle Affecting The Operation of This Establishment (m1a)

Data file: United-States-2024-full-data.dta

Overview

Valid: 2697
Invalid: -
Minimum: -9
Maximum: 15
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1736
End: 1737
Width: 2
Range: -9 - 15
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
-9 Don't know (spontaneous) 2
0.1%
-7 Does not apply 81
3%
1 Access to finance 141
5.2%
2 Access to land 38
1.4%
3 Business licensing and permits 85
3.2%
4 Corruption 18
0.7%
5 Courts 6
0.2%
6 Crime, theft and disorder 81
3%
7 Customs and trade regulations 133
4.9%
8 Electricity 49
1.8%
9 Inadequately educated workforce 874
32.4%
10 Labor regulations 278
10.3%
11 Political instability 238
8.8%
12 Practices of competitors in the informal sector 93
3.4%
13 Tax administration 56
2.1%
14 Tax rates 411
15.2%
15 Transport 113
4.2%
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.
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