Transition Economies Enterprise Survey

The Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), developed jointly by the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is a survey of managers and owners of firms across the countries of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Turkey designed to generate comparative measurements of the quality of governance, the investment climate and the competitive environment, which can then be related to different characteristics of the firm and to firm performance.

• 2005: The following links provide regional and country-specific summaries (BEEPS At-A-Glance) of the findings of the 2005 survey.
  • General Information 
  • 2005 Questionnaire (237 kb PDF)
  • 2005 Press Release 
    
    

• 2002: The second round of the survey (BEEPS II) was conducted in 2002 and the results are available at http://info.worldbank.org/governance/beeps2002/ . For more advanced users available are the report (296 kb PDF) and questionnaire (179 kb PDF), the actual firm-level data is presented in Stata (1.7 mb ZIP) and Excel (3.1 mb ZIP) formats.
  

• 1999: The first round of the BEEPS was conducted in 1999.  The full data set and questionnaire are accesible at  http://info.worldbank.org/governance/beeps/ .

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