The Macomb County Chamber Alliance, Oakland University and Macomb County partnered to administer the 2nd Business Climate Survey.

The purpose of this project is to provide leaders and decision makers in both the public and private sectors with useful and reliable information about business conditions – information that can be used to guide future planning and policy development. The results of the survey can also be used to measure progress toward improving the business climate over the next several years and to assist in identifying opportunities for economic growth and development.

This study was conducted during the first three weeks of June 2010 using a web-based survey methodology. Invitations to participate in the survey were emailed to members of the seven chambers of commerce located in Macomb County as well as to recipients of the County’s eBusiness newsletter. Graduates of Leadership Macomb were also invited to participate. Since there was some overlap in these mailing lists, people were asked to respond only once to the survey. Adjusting for duplication, it is estimated that more than 3,000 separate business leaders living and working in Macomb County were invited to participate in the survey. Exactly 465 surveys were completed, which provides a meaningful data set for analysis and interpretation.

The results and summary can be found here.