Abstract: Enterprise surveys provide important information for macroeconomic policy makers, corporates and institutional investors. Due to their timeliness and ability to reveal corporate expectations, they are an important addition to traditional statistics. This paper studies the principles and methodologies used to conduct questionnaire surveys in different countries. The paper is divided into four parts: 1) an overview of enterprise surveys, including methodologies on  sample selection, questionnaire design, and data processing; 2) enterprises surveys in Japan, EU and the US; 3) similarities and differences between various enterprises surveys; and 4) a few suggestions on how to improve the survey of 5000 enterprises conducted by the People’s Bank of China.

Full report ：WP No.20163 An International Comparison of Enterprise Surveys.pdf