Enterprise Survey 2018

Lao PDR, 2018

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Reference ID

LAO_2018_ES_v01_M

Producer(s)

World Bank Group (WBG)

Metadata

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Jan 16, 2021

Last modified

Jan 16, 2021

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Percent of Total Annual Sales Paid In Informal Payments (j7a)

Data file: lao_pdr_2018_full_data

Overview

Valid: 155

Invalid: 177

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 2072

End: 2073

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 20

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

J.7 It is said that establishments are sometimes required to make gifts or informal payments to public officials to "get things done" with regard to customs, taxes, licenses, regulations, services etc. On average, what percentage of total annual sales, or estimated total annual value, do establishments like this one pay in informal payments or gifts to public officials for this purpose?
- Percentage of total annual sales paid as informal payment

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know (spontaneous)	14	14.6%
-8	Refusal (spontaneous)	10	10.4%
0	No payments or gifts are paid	72	75%

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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