Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China, 2016-2018

58,500 corporations and individual household businesses were surveyed across six Chinese provinces in the 2018 baseline survey. The Center for Enterprise Research at Peking University conducted this large-scale survey to study entrepreneurial history, operating conditions, and innovation. Three pre-surveys between 2016 and 2017 gathered data from over 9,500 additional businesses in Guangdong and Henan provinces.

Use Cases

• Analyzing regional business environment differences based on survey responses from 117 counties and districts.
• Modeling factors influencing enterprise innovation based on data about operating conditions and creation processes.
• Studying entrepreneurial history and network relationships among private and foreign-owned enterprises.
• Benchmarking enterprise performance across different provinces and ownership types registered from 2010 to 2017.

Strengths

• Large sample size of 58,500 businesses in the 2018 baseline survey.
• Geographic coverage includes 117 counties and districts across six major provinces.
• Survey content covers multiple domains including innovation, business environment, and entrepreneurial history.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the specific survey years and selected provinces.

Provenance

Source

Center for Enterprise Research, Peking University

Collection Method

Enterprise survey targeting private and foreign-owned enterprises registered in China.

Time Range

2016-2018 (with pre-surveys in 2016-2017 and baseline in 2018)

Geography

China (specifically Liaoning, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Henan, Guangdong, and Gansu provinces)