The 2022 Bangladesh Informal Sector Enterprise Survey was conducted by the World Bank Group's (WBG) Enterprise Analysis Unit (DECEA) in three areas in Bangladesh. The survey covers the following areas: Dhaka MA, Chittagong MA, and Cox’s Bazar district. The fieldwork was implemented by Org-Quest Research Limited, and the data was collected over October 2022 to December 2022.
The primary objectives of the Informal Sector Enterprise Surveys are to: i) understand demographics of the informal sector in the covered cities, ii) describe the environment within which these businesses operate, and iii) enable data analysis based on the samples that are representative at each city level.