India - Informal Sector Enterprise Survey 2022

The 2022 India Informal Sector Enterprise Survey was conducted by the World Bank Group's (WBG) Enterprise Analysis Unit (DECEA) in several cities in India. The survey covers the following nine cities: Hyderabad, Telangana; Jaipur, Rajasthan; Kochi, Kerala; Ludhiana, Punjab; Mumbai, Maharashtra; Sehore, Madhya Pradesh; Surat, Gujarat; Tezpur, Assam; and Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The fieldwork was implemented by Nielsen (India) Pvt Ltd, and the data was collected between September 2021 and April 2022.The primary objectives of the Informal Sector Enterprise Surveys are to: i) understand demographics of the informal sector in the covered cities, ii) describe the environment within which these businesses operate, and iii) enable data analysis based on the samples that are representative at each city level.