This research was conducted in Haiti in October 2019, as part of the of the Enterprise Survey. The objective of the study is to obtain feedback from enterprises in client countries on the state of the private sector. The research is also used to build a panel of enterprise data that will make it possible to track changes in the business environment over time, thus allowing, for example, impact assessments of reforms. Through face-to-face interviews with firms in the manufacturing and services sectors, the survey assesses the constraints to private sector growth and creates statistically significant business environment indicators that are comparable across countries.
In Haiti, data from 149 establishments were taken from listings from three sources: UNOPS 2018, UNICEF 2018, and Haiti Business Database 2018. The survey topics include firm characteristics, infrastructure and services, sales and supplies, management practices, degree of competition, innovation, land and permits, crime, finance, mobile money, insurance, business-government relations, labor, business environment, performance, and post-interview information.