Future of Business - Survey Results

Creators:
Facebook; OECD; World Bank
Publication Date:
2018
Data Category:
Financial and Economic Data
Dataset Description:

The Future of Business survey is a collaboration between Facebook, the OECD and the World Bank to provide timely insights on the perceptions, challenges, and outlook of online Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The Future of Business survey was first launched as a monthly survey in 17 countries in February 2016 and expanded to 42 countries in 2018. In 2019, the Future of Business survey increased coverage to 97 countries and moved to a bi-annual cadence.

The target population consists of SMEs that have an active Facebook business Page and include both newer and longer-standing businesses, spanning across a variety of sectors. To date, more than 90 million SMEs have created a Facebook Page, and more than 700,000 of these Facebook Page owners have taken the survey. With more businesses leveraging online tools each day, the survey provides a lens into a new mobilized, digital economy and, in particular, insights on the actors: a relatively unmeasured community worthy of deeper consideration and considerable policy interest.

The survey includes questions about perceptions of current and future economic activity, challenges, business characteristics and strategy. Custom modules include questions related to regulation, access to finance, digital payments, and digital skills.

Variables:
Name Description
variable Name of variable
question_text Question that has been asked in survey for the given variable
possible_options Range of answers that were possible to a given survey question
value Value of a given variable
pop Population that question has been asked to
logged_iso2 Country code
mean_w Mean weight
se_w Standard error of weight
count Count of businesses that answered a given question
question_n Number of question
Publisher:
Facebook; OECD; World Bank
Companies:
Facebook; OECD; World Bank
Size:
0.04
Formats:
CSV
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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