This research is a survey of unregistered businesses conducted in Guatemala from Sept. 29 to Nov. 20, 2010. The study was carried out through the joint collaboration of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Data from 303 enterprises was analyzed. Questionnaire 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, obstacles to get registration, reasons for not registering, and benefits that an establishment could get from registration. The mode of data collection is face-to-face interviews. The Informal Surveys aim to accomplish the following objectives: 1) To provide information about the state of the private sector for informal businesses in client countries; 2) To generate information about the reasons of said informality; 3) To collect useful data for the research agenda on informality; 4) To provide information on the level of activity in the informal sector of selected urban centers in each country.
