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Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation

Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation, 2026 compilation · 181 countries

This is the share of a senior manager's working week spent dealing with government regulation — permits, inspections, taxes, labour and customs rules — as managers in the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys estimate it. It is often read as the time cost of red tape.

This site holds one edition, Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation, 2026 compilation, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation, 2026 compilation
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1 edition · 181 rows
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CC BY 4.0

01One edition

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every edition of Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation, 2026 compilation181—October 3, 2026CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: management-time-regulation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

024 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2026DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1810
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1810
Senior management time spent dealing with government regulation (% of a typical week)management_time_regulationHeadlineThe headline figure: Senior management time spent dealing with government regulation (% of a typical week).Number · up to 10 decimals0.025Hong Kong31.325Tongamiddle 6.7951810
Reference yearreference_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—140

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

03181 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation, by continent.
2026
Africa52
Americas33
Asia46
Europe40
Oceania10
All181

One edition, covering 181 countries.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Bank Group

  2. 2 · Their file

    Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation (readings to 2026)

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    October 3, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per edition

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 10 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

World Bank Enterprise Surveys on Data360, read from the full-precision bulk file, one reading per country from its most recent survey.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked October 3, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation, Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation, 2026 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/management-time-regulation

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Enterprise Surveys. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

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07Questions

Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation: questions and answers

What is the Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation?

This is the share of a senior manager's working week spent dealing with government regulation — permits, inspections, taxes, labour and customs rules — as managers in the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys estimate it. It is often read as the time cost of red tape.

Which editions of the Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation can I download?

One: Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation, 2026 compilation, as a CSV file.

Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.

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