Global Investment Competitiveness Survey 2017
Armenia, Australia, Austria...and 81 more, 2017
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WLD_2017_GICS_v01_M
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Peter Kusek, Andrea Silva
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Q12. How important: Efforts to improve the business environment in the country (Q12_6)
Data file: gicphonesurvey
Overview
Valid:
632
Invalid:
122
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
376
End:
377
Width:
2
Range:
-9 - 4
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
ASK Q12 IF Q10.2 ON “INVESTMENT PROMOTION AGENCIES” IS ANSWERED CODE 2 “SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT”, 3 “IMPORTANT” OR CODE 4 “CRITICALLY IMPORTANT”.
Literal question
The next set of questions is about services offered by Investment Promotion Agencies - or IPAs -- in developing countries. IPAs are government agencies whose mission is to attract investments. They can be called investment and development board, investment commission, ministry of commerce and industry, etc. How important are the following services offered by IPAs for your company’s investment decisions?
- Efforts to improve the business environment in the country
- Efforts to improve the business environment in the country
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -9 | Don't know | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 1 | Not at all important | 33 |
5.2%
|
| 2 | Somewhat important | 159 |
25.2%
|
| 3 | Important | 290 |
45.9%
|
| 4 | Critically important | 148 |
23.4%
|
| Sysmiss | 122 |
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.