The EIB Investment Survey

The EIB Investment survey

Being able to track changes in business and infrastructure investment, identify investment needs and understand the constraints that hold investment back, is vital for effective policy making to support growth and job creation across Europe. The annual EIB Group Survey on Investment and Investment Finance (EIBIS) will help address this challenge.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the bank of the European Union. It is owned by the EU Member States and represents their interests, working closely with other EU institutions to implement EU policy, supporting investment by firms and the public sector throughout the EU and around the world. The EIB Group is made up of the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund (EIF).

Ipsos has been commissioned by the EIB to implement the EIB Investment Survey. The survey consists of yearly waves. This year’s survey will be carried out by telephone by Ipsos from March 2021 to July 2021. All published findings will be completely anonymised.

The survey includes one module:

The main Investment Module targets 13,400 SMEs and larger corporates.

More information on participants on the Investment Module

The Investment Module

What drives business investment in the EU? What holds it back?

The main module of the survey involves interviews with 13,400 SMEs and larger corporates:

It collects data on firm characteristics and performance, past investment activities and future plans, sources of finance, financing issues and other challenges that businesses face.
It is designed to be representative across different sectors, firm sizes and all EU Member States, the UK and the US.
It is designed to build a panel of robust and comparable firm data to enable the analysis of investment and business environment trends over time.
It will be used to inform policy dialogue on the drivers and barriers to investment and to support better policy making on how to support business at both the national and EU levels.

Who is invited to take part?

Panel respondents: Participants who took part in the previous wave of the survey in 2020 and provided their permission to be contacted again.

New respondents: Businesses with five employees or more from the non-financial corporate sector across the member states of the European Union, the UK and the US have been selected at random. Within these businesses, we are inviting the senior person who is best able to talk about his or her company’s investments.

Selected businesses are active in the economic categories listed under point C to J in the NACE database.

Ipsos has been commissioned by the EIB to implement the EIB Investment Survey. The survey consists of yearly waves. This year’s survey will be carried out by telephone by Ipsos from March 2021 to July 2021. All published findings will be completely anonymised.

The survey includes one module:

The main Investment Module targets 13,400 SMEs and larger corporates.

Download the Pre-Interview Questions

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