Doing Business

The World Bank has an annual global doing business report available here <http://www.doingbusiness.org/>. The latest data has been pulled from the 2017 report.

Current Status

Chris Williams pulled and Marianne Hughes vetted this data. It was completed on April 1st for the 7.21 packaging.
It should be consolidated into 7.21. Link to teamwork task: https://pardeecenter.teamwork.com/#tasks/4713405 - We should update this series again in early 2018 when the next report comes out.

Series pulled from the World Bank Doing Business report 

DataDict 720

Table	Group	Definition	Source	Last IFs Update	UsedInPreprocessor	Years
SeriesGovWBDoingBusConstructionPermitDays	Economic;Trade	The number of days need to get a construction permit	World Bank Doing Business; http:// www.doingbusiness.org/	2014/04/28	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusConstructionPermitProcedures	Economic;Trade	Number of procedures needed to get a construction permit	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2014/04/28	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusContainerExportCostUSD	Economic;Trade	Cost of exporting one container in USD	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusContainerImportCostUSD	Economic;Trade	Cost of importing one container in USD	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusContractEnforceDays	Economic;Trade	Number of days required to enforce a contract	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusCostClose	Economic;Trade	Average cost of closing a business in percent of estate	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusCreditTransparency	Economic;Trade	World Bank index on the depth of credit information (0-6)	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2014/04/07	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusDirectorLiability	Economic;Trade	World Bank index on the extent of director liability	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusDisclosureIndex	Economic;Trade	World Bank index on the extent of disclosure	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusEmpRigiIndex	Economic;Trade	World Bank index on the rigidity of employment	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2010/03/30	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusExportDocumentationNeeded	Economic;Trade	Number of documents needed to export	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2014/04/07	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusHiringDiffIndex	Economic;Trade	World Bank index documenting the difficulty in hiring workers 0-100	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2010/03/30	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusImportDays	Economic;Trade	Number of days required to import	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusImportDocumentationNeeded	Economic;Trade	Number of documents needed to import	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2014/04/07	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusinessCostofStarting	Economic;Trade	Cost of registering a business as a percent of per capita income	WDI BATCH PULL	2017/07/11	Yes
SeriesGovWBDoingBusinessCustomsDays	Economic;Trade	Number of days required to clear customs	WDI 2015 September BATCH PULL	2015/10/08	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusinessProcedures	Economic;Trade	Number of procedures required to start a business	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusinessPropRegDays	Economic;Trade	Number of days required to register property	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusinessRanking	Economic;Trade	Total overall ranking of ease of doing business	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusinessStartDays	Economic;Trade	Number of days required to start a business	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusInvestorProtection	Economic;Trade	World bank index measuring the strength of investor protection (0-10)	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusLegalRightsStrengthIndex	Economic;Trade	World Bank index of the strength of legal rights, specifically property rights (0-10)	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusPropertyProceduresRequired	Economic;Trade	Number of procedures required to register for property	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusRedundancyCostperWeekSalary	Economic;Trade	Cost of firing a worker (in weeks of salary)	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2010/03/30	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusRedundancyIndex	Economic;Trade	World Bank index on the difficulty in firing a worker	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2010/03/30	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusShareholderSuits	Economic;Trade	World Bank index measuring the ability of shareholders to take legal action	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusTax%Profit	Economic;Trade	Total tax rate as a percentage of profit	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusTaxHoursperPerson	Economic;Trade	Number of hours per year a person works to pay taxes	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusTimeClose	Economic;Trade	Average number of years needed to close a business	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusTotalTaxRate	Economic;Trade	The total tax rate expressed as a share of commercial profits.	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusExportCostDocCompli	Economic;Trade	The cost of exporting with regard to documentary compliance.	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No
SeriesGovWBDoingBusImportCostDocCompli	Economic;Trade	The cost of importing with regard to documentary compliance.	World Bank Doing Business; http://www.doingbusiness.org/	2017/07/11	No

Instructions on pulling doing business series 

Doing Business Documentation

First I downloaded the data from the World Bank’s Doing Business database page http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/doing-business-database by clicking on the link entitled "Doing Business(Excel)"

This World Bank file contains three sheets with the names Data, Series, and Footnote. The Doing Business data was pulled from the Data tab. Prior to pulling the data from the Doing Business file, the country names were concorded with IFs country names. This resulted in some of the territories in the original World Bank file being excluded from what was imported into IFs.

Certain series we had in the system are not being measured in the Doing Business data. If the data was included in the original download spreadsheet, then it was nearly always marked as Old methodology. Series that were not included in this data were typically not updated last time this data was pulled as well. 

Old series that were not updated are as follows: Rigidity of employment, difficulty of hiring, worker redundancy, redundancy index, average days to clear customs, and total tax rate (not a percentage of profit). The first four fall into the Labor Market regulation data, which the World Bank didn't include in their index of ease of doing business. There is separate data for this, however, the variables still don't seem to quite match up. There is no redundancy Index, there is no difficulty of hiring index, or rigidity of employment index. Average days to clear customs used old methodology. Total tax rate % profit was changed to Total tax rate % commercial profits the previous time this was pulled. 

This left me with 24 series to update.