VCCI Survey - September 2021
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1. What is the name of your business? (Optional)
2. What province is your business located in? *
3. What sub-sector is your business in? *
4. Was your turnover higher or lower for the period June-August 2021 vs June-August 2019?
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5. Was your turnover higher or lower for the period June-August 2021 vs June-August 2020?
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6. What has been the percentage change in overall turnover for your business for the combined period of June, July, and August compared to the same period of 2019 - i.e. before COVID. Please write this just as a number - e.g. a 20% drop should be written as -20, or a 30% increase should be written as 30
7. What has been the percentage change in overall turnover for your business for the combined period of June, July, and August compared to the same period of 2020 - i.e. once COVID hit. Please write this just as a number - e.g. a 20% drop should be written as -20, or a 30% increase should be written as 30
8. How many full-time employees did you have before the borders closed? (End of February 2020)
9. How many part-time employees did you have before the borders closed? (End of February 2020)
10. How many full-time employees do you have now?
11. How many part-time employees do you have now?
11. Has the cost of doing business increased in the last year?
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12. Do you have plans to reduce your workforce size in the near future?
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13. How are you funding your business now? (tick as many as applicable)
14. Are you receiving support from the bank?
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15. Acknowledging the large number of unknowns, how confident are you that your business will still be running in...
Very high confidence
High Confidence
Low Confidence
Very low confidence
Three months
One year
Five years
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16. If the borders were unable to reopen for touirsm until 2023, how confident are you that your business would remain operating?
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17. On a scale of 1-5, where 1 is extremely negative and 5 is extremely positive, what is your confidence for the future of... *
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5
Your business
Your Sector
The wider economy
Hypothetical impact of a widespread COVID-19 crisis on your business?
These questions seek to understand what the impact would be if there was a widespread COVID outbreak, and we moved to level 4 from the Ministry of Health planning perspective. Under this scenario, there would be restrictions on inter-island travel, as well as restrictions on businesses, schools, churches, and other public or private gatherings. Further details are available at https://covid19.gov.vu/
18. Are you an essential business?
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19. How would your business react to a lockdown of...
Largely unaffected - we would continue to operate at full staffing levels
Continue to operate, but at slightly reduced staffing levels
Continue to operate, but at heavily reduced staffing levels
Cease operations until the lockdown is finished
Permanently cease operations
2 weeks
2 months
6 months
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20. Would your business be able to pay your staff during a month long lockdown?
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21. What would the impact of a month of lockdown be on your business, once the lockdown finished?
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22. How many of your staff are fully vaccinated?
23. How many of your staff have had just their first vaccine?
Wage Subsidy Scheme
The Government has announced a second stimulus package, consisting of a Small Business Grant, a Wage Subsidy Scheme, and a Special Banking Facility. These questions are on the wage subsidy scheme. Please only answer if your business is eligible. Further details of the scheme - included which businesses are eligible - are found at the link below.

https://doft.gov.vu/index.php/stimulus/wage-subsidy-scheme-wss
24. Is your business eligible for the wage subsidy scheme?
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25. What impact will the wage subsidy scheme have on your business?
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26. What will the Wage Subsidy Scheme meant for staff numbers and hours?
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27. What would it mean for the wage subsidy scheme to be continued until borders reopened for tourism (in some format) - Select all that apply
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Improving the Business Environment in Vanuatu
The Vanuatu Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (VFIPA) is currently in the process of drafting a National Investment Policy. The answers to the below questions will help to inform this policy development.
28. In 2019, would you have recommended to a friend that they should start a business in Vanuatu?
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29. Would you recommend to a friend that they should start a business in Vanuatu once the borders reopen for tourism?
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30. On a scale of 1-5, rank how significant each of the following barriers to investment is. 1 is no barrier, and 5 is a severe barrier
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5
Poor infrastructure
Lack of competition
Poor education/human capital
Difficult regulatory environment
High cost of utilities
Weak Government services
Access to capital
Access to land
Natural disasters
Gender inequalities
Poor reputation
Difficulty in accessing the global economy
Slow/expensive/unreliable internet
Accessing skilled labour
Inefficient private sector
High cost of international shipping/stevedoring
High cost of domestic shipping/stevedoring
Lack of technology uptake
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31. What changes would you make to improve the business environment to increase investment. Please be as specific as possible
32. If you have been doing business in Vanuatu for more than 10 years, has the business environment got better or worse?
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33. If you've been doing business in Vanuatu for more than 10 years, what has been the single main thing which has got better?
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34. If you've been doing business in Vanuatu for more than 10 years, what has been the single main thing which has got worse?
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