The survey of unregistered businesses was conducted in Myanmar between February and April 2014, simultaneously with Myanmar Enterprise Survey 2014. 300 informal businesses were interviewed.
The objective of World Bank firm-level surveys is to obtain feedback from enterprises in client countries on the state of the private sector, assess constraints to private sector growth and create statistically significant business environment indicators that are comparable across countries.
Informal survey questionnaires are a shorter, tailored to unregistered businesses, version of Enterprise Survey questionnaires. The topics include general information about a business, infrastructure and services, sales and supplies, crime, sources and access to finance, business-government relationship, assets, bribery, workforce composition, intention and obstacles to get registration. Business owners or managers are interviewed face-to-face.