WBES 2011: China

Country involved:

China

Project Description:

The China Enterprise Survey 2010 (China ES 2010) is a World Bank Group (the World Bank) program that with the goal of standardization in order to reduce measurement error and improve cross- country comparability with other enterprise surveys. The goals is to make the China ES 2010 fully compatible with the approach of the Enterprise surveys that the Enterprise Analysis Unit of the World Bank has been implementing for the last four years in other regions of the world. Standardizing survey instruments, survey methodology and survey implementation serves to significantly reduce measurement error and improves cross-country comparability.

In addition to gathering data to provide year-to-year, cross-country investment climate measures, the Enterprise Survey builds a panel of enterprise data. A panel data set will allow researchers to track changes in the business environment, measure the effect of these changes on establishment performance and make assessments on the effects of reforms on the business environment.

With the participation of 13 professional staffs and sub-contractors, MKE lead the following responsibilities:

·             Identifying sample frames in accordance with World Bank outlined strategy and approval

·             Conducting the face-to-face interview with approximately 3,000 establishments of the sample frame

·             Providing the client a set of a clean data of all completed interviews in the STATA electronic database

·             Presenting to the client spreadsheets containing sample control information, which is a second database including the location information of each interviewed establishment

·             Preparing a report, in English, on the data describing all codes, sampling biases introduced in the survey

·             implementation and other pertinent information for researchers. The report covers

observations/experiences arising from the survey and the methodology employed