Table 2 Summary statistics of overall business environment traits in East Asia Pacific

Basic firm-level traits

Initial firm size, <=5 employees

9.2

23.0

44.2

21.2

15.7

16.2

11.0

13.3

28.2

41.8

14.3

12.8

Initial firm size, 6–15 employees

44.1

40.5

42.4

40.6

51.8

37.0

38.8

49.6

38.8

46.0

49.4

27.2

Initial firm size, 16–30 employees

14.9

17.4

6.1

9.7

19.3

24.6

21.2

17.5

17.1

11.7

24.0

24.2

Initial firm size, 31+ employees

31.9

19.1

7.3

28.4

13.1

22.2

29.0

19.7

15.9

0.6

12.4

35.7

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

Firms <10 years old

41.2

24.5

36.7

40.2

31.4

49.3

36.4

27.4

89.8

54.7

44.2

65.1

Firms 10–19 years old

51.0

27.2

39.4

41.6

37.9

44.7

32.9

37.0

8.5

29.7

24.2

23.5

Firms >=20 years old

7.8

48.4

23.9

18.3

30.8

6.1

30.8

35.7

1.7

15.7

31.6

11.4

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

Manufacturing sector

50.6

16.0

82.0

30.7

12.4

26.6

22.7

19.7

38.0

15.0

7.9

38.8

Service sector

47.2

80.5

15.5

62.7

80.3

47.8

72.4

70.2

39.9

83.8

73.0

48.8

Other sectors

2.2

3.5

2.5

6.6

7.3

25.6

5.0

10.2

22.1

1.2

19.2

12.4

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

Firm formally registered when started business

95.8

93.5

29.1

83.7

96.9

90.1

97.5

88.4

91.7

93.5

88.1

87.5

Firm is incorporated

35.6

53.0

14.8

3.9

6.0

96.0

59.9

49.4

6.9

19.9

21.9

64.0

Sole proprietorship (firm owned and managed by one person)

50.8

39.8

84.3

91.9

60.6

1.8

24.3

46.3

83.7

65.5

67.2

25.9

Firm is foreign owned, partly or fully

5.0

11.9

1.8

10.0

26.6

8.7

13.6

21.3

17.5

13.5

36.0

9.5

Firm is partly government owned

3.1

0.6

0.3

0.8

0.0

0.1

0.4

1.8

0.5

1.4

0.0

7.4

Share of unskilled employees

49.6

20.3

30.9

29.5

10.8

20.8

Share of female employees

37.8

37.3

36.8

46.4

37.3

48.5

39.2

34.4

22.8

56.3

37.7

36.1

Firm-level business climate, technology and infrastructure traits

Share of firms that export

10.9

15.6

2.7

21.3

35.4

5.0

7.8

14.8

1.0

3.3

27.4

14.9

Email use for doing business

85.0

86.0

13.2

42.4

85.1

62.0

67.8

86.5

47.2

56.5

83.5

83.2

Provides formal training to workers

79.2

61.0

4.7

26.9

58.3

61.2

31.1

79.1

49.7

11.1

47.5

43.6

Has a generator

8.0

27.8

6.4

12.2

43.9

24.2

40.8

18.6

41.9

75.5

33.4

34.8

# of power outages in a typical month last fiscal year

0.3

1.7

2.8

2.7

5.8

3.0

1.0

5.4

14.1

2.1

2.8

2.0

Had 3 or more power outages in a typical month last year, %

1.2

20.0

26.3

41.2

68.9

33.1

13.8

70.9

91.5

27.7

28.3

27.3

Firm-level business regulation traits

# of days needed to obtain operating license

27.5

6.5

21.1

13.1

7.3

43.5

10.6

6.1

16.6

3.3

21.6

17.8

Firm has ISO certification

53.4

22.9

2.9

11.9

6.0

16.7

15.7

31.4

2.2

7.8

27.0

16.7

Firm has external auditor

63.3

90.1

4.0

31.7

25.2

79.0

91.1

71.7

20.8

45.2

43.6

30.1

Management’s time dealing w/government regulations, %

1.5

6.4

2.4

7.7

15.4

13.0

11.1

17.5

5.8

6.6

9.2

5.3

Spends 5% or more of time w/government regulations, %

7.4

29.9

15.0

42.7

50.5

65.2

53.3

60.2

44.4

75.5

54.8

28.9

# of hours per week firm operated last year

51.8

52.3

52.6

66.5

61.7

Firm-level financial climate traits

Has checking and/or savings account

96.0

96.1

51.5

78.2

98.5

61.4

97.8

97.0

87.7

100

96.0

89.4

Has credit line or loan from a bank

25.3

37.8

18.2

29.3

43.0

52.9

33.2

51.3

6.9

54.3

45.8

49.9

Has overdraft facility with their bank

24.1

55.6

5.8

12.5

35.7

28.7

63.2

15.8

40.2

53.2

12.3

Firm-level tax and corruption traits

Firm visited/inspected by tax officials last year

59.4

61.3

11.7

93.8

56.1

68.0

87.2

52.1

44.3

21.9

75.2

61.1

Firm gives informal payments to public officials (for license, tax etc.)^a

3.4

8.9

9.3

17.6

0.0

16.1

13.5

13.1

0.2

3.4

19.4

Sample size

2700

164

1444

233

68

362

1326

109

150

150

128

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