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Doing Business (Business Regulation Rankings), Global, 2009

The Doing Business data are collected in a standardized way. To start, the Doing Business team, with academic advisers, designs a survey. The survey uses a simple business case to ensure comparability across economies and over time -- with assumptions about the legal form of the business, its size, its location and the nature of its operations. Surveys are administered through more than 6,700 local experts, including lawyers, business consultants, accountants, freight forwarders, government officials and other professionals routinely administering or advising on legal and regulatory requirements (table 12.1). These experts have several (typically 4) rounds of interaction with the Doing Business team, involving conference calls, written correspondence and visits by the team. For Doing Business 2009 team members visited 73 economies to verify data and recruit respondents. The data from surveys are subjected to numerous tests for robustness, which lead to revisions or expansions of the information collected.

Attributes Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
documents for export (number) 2 - 13 6.00 6.78 2.12

documents for export (number)

profit tax percentage 0.00 - 176.80 17.70 18.13 15.42

profit tax percentage

registering property- number of procedures 0 - 14 6.00 5.93 2.71

registering property- number of procedures

construction permits - number of procedures 0 - 54 17.00 18.12 6.87

construction permits - number of procedures

latitude -43.59 - 64.96 17.32 18.78 24.43
time for import (days) 3 - 104 23.00 27.88 19.39

time for import (days)

investor protection index 0.70 - 9.70 5.00 5.06 1.55

investor protection index

Country Text column (no statistics available)

Country

recovery rate cents on the dollar 0.00 - 92.50 28.00 31.05 24.58

recovery rate (cents on the dollar)

enforcing contracts - number of procedures 20 - 58 38.00 38.14 6.86

enforcing contracts - number of procedures

paying taxes- number of payments 1 - 113 28.00 31.10 20.93

paying taxes- number of payments

enforcing contracts cost perc of debt 0.10 - 163.20 26.50 34.13 27.47

enforcing contracts cost (% of debt)

paying taxes rank 1 - 181 90.00 90.07 52.37

paying taxes rank

shareholder suits index 0 - 10 6.00 5.69 2.14

shareholder suits index

getting credit public registry coverage (% adults) 0.00 - 76.40 0.00 5.60 12.13

getting credit public registry coverage (% adults)

firing costs weeks of wages 0 - 446 35.00 47.35 48.95

firing costs weeks of wages

cost to export (us$ per container) Whole Number column (no statistics available)

cost to export (us$ per container)

total tax rate percentage of profit 8.40 - 292.40 42.10 49.38 38.51

total tax rate percentage of profit

director liability index 0 - 9 5.00 4.39 2.54

director liability index

getting credit private bureau coverage (% adults) 0.00 - 100.00 0.00 20.93 32.57

getting credit private bureau coverage (% adults)

ease of doing business rank 1 - 181 91.00 90.44 52.02

ease of doing business rank

enforcing contracts rank 1 - 181 90.00 90.53 52.33

enforcing contracts rank

cost to import (us$ per container) Whole Number column (no statistics available)

cost to import (us$ per container)

credit information index 0 - 6 4.00 2.90 2.28

credit information index

registering property time (days) 0 - 513 44.00 70.75 83.68

registering property time (days)

starting a business time (days) 1 - 694 26.00 37.94 59.79

starting a business time (days)

closing a business cost (% of estate) 0 - 76 9.00 13.46 11.76

closing a business cost (% of estate)

closing a business rank 1 - 181 92.00 92.90 55.18

closing a business rank

protect investors rank 1 - 181 88.00 84.52 52.24

protect investors rank

starting business cost (% of income) 0.00 - 435.40 16.90 46.62 71.02

starting business cost (% of income)

closing a business time years 0.00 - 10.00 2.60 2.58 1.77

closing a business time (years)

time for export days 5 - 102 21.00 25.00 16.88

time for export (days)

trading across borders rank 1 - 181 90.00 90.49 52.58

trading across borders rank

difficulty of hiring index 0 - 100 33.00 30.69 26.64

difficulty of hiring index

construction permits rank 1 - 181 90.00 90.62 52.49

construction permits rank

year 2009 - 2009 2009.00 2009.00 0.00
longitude -175.20 - 177.97 20.91 18.59 68.09
Getting credit legal rights index 0 - 10 5.00 5.34 2.45

Getting credit legal rights index

getting credit rank 1 - 181 84.00 83.76 52.05

getting credit rank

Employing Workers rank 1 - 180 91.00 90.38 52.44

Employing Workers rank

constuction cost (% of income per capita) Decimal Number column (no statistics available)

constuction cost (% of income per capita)

starting business procedures (number) 1 - 20 8.00 8.58 3.53

starting business procedures (number)

documents for import number 2 - 18 7.00 7.57 2.43

documents for import number

labor tax and contributions percentage 0.00 - 58.90 14.70 16.60 11.73

labor tax and contributions percentage

disclosure index 0 - 10 5.00 5.10 2.53

disclosure index

difficulty of firing index 0 - 100 30.00 31.18 22.73

difficulty of firing index

Starting business rank 1 - 181 91.00 90.52 52.32

Starting business rank

enforcing contracts (time in days) Whole Number column (no statistics available)

enforcing contracts (time measured in days)

other taxes percentage 0.00 - 253.30 3.80 14.65 36.81

other taxes percentage

registering property cost (% of property value) 0.00 - 28.00 4.80 5.97 5.37

registering property cost (% of property value)

registering property rank 1 - 177 91.00 90.67 52.03

registering property rank

rigidity of employment index 0 - 79 33.00 32.90 18.28

rigidity of employment index

rigidity of hours index 0 - 80 40.00 36.85 22.68

rigidity of hours index