Flash Eurobarometer 174: SME Access to Finance:

The following aspects are covered in the survey:
-The state of SMEs: their financial situation, their growth and development.
-The use of financial instruments: financial institutions and types of financing.Access to finance through banks: the use of banks, ease of access now and compared to the past, attitudes towards banks.
- The use of small loans: whether SMEs have done this, their views about it and reasons that would encourage them to do so.
- The use of venture capital: to what extent it is currently being used, do SMEs foresee this to be a form of financing in the future and for what reasons?
- Financial management: how this is done and to whom SMEs turn for information or advice on financing.

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics

Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer