Collecting Data on Social Enterprises 2025

Appendix 1: List of surveys The following surveys, which were either publicly available or confidentially provided to the research team, were mapped either in their entirety or to the full extent of their relevance for this project. Practitioner –Collaborative Mapping of Social Enterprises in Argentina 2021 by Mesa IES (EKHOS, Universidad Austral, Keidos, Libertate, Efecto Colibrí, Universidad de San Andrés). –European Social Enterprise Monitor 2023-2024 by Euclid Network. –Finding Australia’s Social Enterprise Sector 2016 by Social Traders and Centre for Social Impact Swinburne. –Global State of Social Enterprise by the British Council. –Map for Impact 2017 by the Centre for Social Impact Swinburne. –Radiography of the State of Social Enterprise in Colombia 2023 by RECON. –Social Enterprise Sector Survey 2015 by Simon Fraser University and Mount Royal University. –Social Entrepreneurship for Inclusive Growth in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2020 by the World Bank. –State of Social Enterprise 2023 by Social Enterprise UK. Academic –Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2015 by the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association. –International Comparative Social Enterprise Models 2013-2020 by EMES Research Network for Social Enterprise. Governmental –Social Enterprise in Scotland – 2021 Census by CEIS, Scottish government and Social Value Lab. –Social Enterprises in Ireland: A Baseline Data Collection Exercise by Amárach Research, Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland and the Irish Local Development Network, for the Department of Rural and Community Development. Certification/verification –People and Planet First verification. –Buy Social Canada Social Enterprise Certification. Membership organization/ grantee –Ashoka – Global Fellows Survey 2021. –Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs – Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI) Venture Survey. –Catalyst Now – membership application and 2024 Member Impact Questionnaire. –Echoing Green – fellowship application, fellowship baseline/midpoint/capstone evaluations and Global Fellows Survey 2021. –IKEA Social Entrepreneurship – 2021 Beneficiary Reporting. –Impact Hub – Global Community Survey 2024. –Schwab Foundation – Portfolio Progress Survey 2024. –Skoll Foundation – Annual Community Survey 2024. The database was further supplemented with the addition of question themes extracted from publications where the full survey instrument associated with the study was neither publicly available nor accessible to the research team. The following studies were integrated in this manner: –2019 Census of Social Enterprises in Mexico by Disruptivo. –Business for Good: Maximizing the Value of Social Enterprises in Asia 2019 by Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society. Collecting Data on Social Enterprises: A Playbook for Practitioners 20