Small Business Surveys - Aggregated Data

Data for Good at Meta

More than 200 million businesses use Facebook globally. The goal of Meta’s quarterly Small Business Surveys is to learn about the unique perspectives, challenges and opportunities of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

The Future of Business (FoB) Survey is conducted biannually in partnership with the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) across nearly 100 countries. The target population consists of SMEs that have an active Facebook Business Page and include both newer and longer-standing businesses, spanning across a variety of sectors. Meta also conducts the Global State of Small Business (GSoSB) Survey bi-annually in partnership with various academic partners across approximately 30 countries. Similarly to the FoB Survey, the target population is active Facebook Page Administrators, but also includes the general population of Facebook users.

Survey questions for all surveys cover a range of topics depending on the survey wave such as business characteristics, challenges, financials and strategy in addition to custom modules related to regulation, gender inequity, access to finance, digital technologies, reduction in revenues, business closures, international trade, inflation, reduction of employees and challenges/needs of the business.

Aggregated country level data for each survey wave is available to the public on HDX and controlled access microdata is available to Data for Good at Meta partners. Please visit https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/future-of-business-survey to apply for access to microdata or contact dataforgood@fb.com for any questions.

This dataset updates: Every three months

Data and Resources [36]

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fob_h22022_codebook_aggregate.csv

Modified: 24 March 2023

Codebook for Future of Business, fielded in October 2022.

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aggregate_smb_leaders.csv

Modified: 24 March 2023

Weighted country level data for the Future of Business Survey, fielded in October 2022.

Download aggregate_smb_leaders.csv 564d4e73-207b-462f-9bae-a80ee8780967
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gsosb_2022_july_data_aggregate_weighted.csv

Modified: 11 October 2022

Weighted country level data for the Global State of Small Business Survey, fielded in July 2022.

Download f0e665ed-8948-406a-b9bd-0d3d8f253335
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gsosb_2022_July_codebook.csv

Modified: 12 October 2022

Codebook for Global State of Small Business Survey, fielded in July 2022.

Download gsosb_2022_July_codebook.csv 39444724-8394-4d72-9b9c-b5d2b51c64d9
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fob_2022_march_data_aggregate_weighted.csv

Modified: 24 May 2022

Weighted country level data for the Future of Business Survey, fielded in March 2022.

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fob_2022_march_codebook.csv

Modified: 24 May 2022

Codebook for Future of Business Survey, fielded in March 2022.

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gsosb_2022_january_data_aggregate_weighted.csv

Modified: 22 March 2022

Weighted country level data for the Global State of Small Business Survey, fielded in January 2022.

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gsosb_2022_january_codebook.csv

Modified: 20 April 2022

Codebook for Global State of Small Business Survey, fielded in January 2022.

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fob_2021_september_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 9 November 2021

Weighted country level data for the Future of Business Survey, fielded in September 2021.

Download f3dcd492-49f5-43fb-80d0-d48e983c84f5
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fob_2021_september_codebook_aggregate.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Codebook for Future of Business Survey, fielded in September 2021.

Download b6a4f68b-955d-40e2-b9f3-2859ed5eba9c
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gsosb_2021julyaugust_data_aggregate_weighted.csv

Modified: 6 October 2021

Weighted country level data for the Global State of Small Business Survey, fielded in July and August 2021.

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gsosb_2021julyaugust_codebook.csv

Modified: 6 October 2021

Codebook for the Global State of Small Business Survey, fielded in July and August 2021.

Download gsosb_2021julyaugust_codebook.csv f3a62c9e-bcb7-46ce-8c49-f20dc12000a1
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gsosb_2021feb_data_aggregate_weighted.csv

Modified: 6 October 2021

Weighted country level data for the Global State of Small Business Survey, fielded in February 2021.

Download 4a168885-b111-44e2-93ba-87be922a0825
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gsosb_2021_february_codebook.csv

Modified: 6 October 2021

Codebook for the Global State of Small Business Survey, fielded in February 2021.

Download gsosb_2021_february_codebook.csv b03a9003-ad35-4ff4-85e1-f74626ed3c59
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fob_2020_december_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Country level data for the semi-annual Future of Business Survey, fielded in December 2020

Download 16dac718-c134-4203-b107-1b44b8e4834f
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fob_2020_december_aggregate_codebook.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Codebook for the semi-annual Future of Business Survey, fielded in December 2020

Download c0022933-327f-450a-887e-0623d03dac9a
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fob_2020_october_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Codebook for the sixth wave of the COVID19 focused survey, fielded in October 2020

Download 6747c786-84f3-420c-be92-a4cc5bec0b3d
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fob_2020_october_aggregate_codebook.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Country level data for the sixth wave of the COVID19 focused survey, fielded in October 2020

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fob_2020_september_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Country level data for the fifth wave of the COVID19 focused survey, fielded late September 2020

Download ec1a118e-57b6-4a6a-984d-3522b0a5c23b
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fob_2020_september_aggregate_codebook.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Codebook for the fifth wave of the COVID19 focused survey, fielded late September 2020

Download 221609ec-b60e-4578-9671-c27bb7602faf
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fob_2020_august_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Country level data for the fourth wave of the COVID19 focused survey, fielded late August 2020

Download 65a8dbce-f337-4662-a1b3-85b30da3f0a8
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fob_2020_august_aggregate_codebook.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Codebook for the fourth wave of the COVID19 focused survey, fielded late August 2020

Download fob_2020_august_aggregate_codebook.csv 8130fde1-d716-442c-96fb-5cecc5e3bb75
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fob_2020_july_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Country level data for the third wave of the COVID19 focused survey, fielded late July 2020

Download 09020323-facc-4c42-9b81-225804992f4b
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fob_2020_july_aggregate_codebook.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Codebook for the third wave of the COVID19 focused survey, fielded late July 2020

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fob_2020_june_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Country level data for the second wave of the COVID19 focused survey, fielded late June 2020

Download 7c4286de-c11f-4e16-a360-42b0c5755ba9
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fob_2020_june_aggregate_codebook.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Codebook for the second wave of the COVID19 focused survey, fielded late June 2020

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fob_2020_may_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Country level data for the survey in May 2020

Download e99377ec-7be4-4074-8cd8-36a73b0d0f4e
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fob_2020_may_aggregate_codebook.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Codebook for the survey in May 2020

Download fob_2020_may_aggregate_codebook.csv 529938f1-bdf8-47d0-bc77-3718816fb2dc
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fob_2019_december_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Weighted country level data for the Future of Business Survey, fielded in Dec 2019.

Download 70ab61fd-97f6-464d-8803-91b84f68f463
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fob_2019_december_aggregate_codebook.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Weighted country level data for the Future of Business Survey, fielded in Dec 2019.

Download b64af091-d0f8-41b2-a6e1-21640c9d3c39
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fob_2019_june_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

The data file for june 2019

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fob_2019_june_aggregate_codebook.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Codebook for the june 2019 wave

Download fob_2019_june_aggregate_codebook.csv 974a2d7f-0024-4e25-8be8-a63a7405b189
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fob_2018_december_data_aggregate_weighted_smb.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

The data file for winter 2018 wave covers topics including industry choice, use of social media and presence of role models among business owners.

Download 3b38c571-1332-45ad-a1df-cff0db5fe64a
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fob_2018_december_aggregate_codebook.csv

Modified: 16 December 2021

Code book for the winter 2018 wave

Download 8095cdb3-7ac8-41f7-b5be-6a9a2490b2d2
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Future of Business Survey - Dashboard Download - Feb 16 - Apr 18 2.csv.zip

Modified: 21 March 2019

This data file includes all data from September 2016 through April 2018 (27 waves), when the Future of Business was administered as a monthly survey largely consisting of standardized questions businesses' economic outlook, trade status and use of online tools.

Download 2cfc864c-636b-487e-b4e4-fb31f8b67a56
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fobs-codebook_0.pdf

Modified: 21 March 2019

Code book for the 9/2016-4/2018 data file.

Download fobs-codebook_0.pdf 6d486227-2985-4914-bc0a-4986f3c65bce