Business Registration in Malawi Experimental Data and Replication Files 2011-2015
Malawi, 2011 - 2015
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Reference ID
MWI_2011_BRIEL_v01_M
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David McKenzie
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Created on
Sep 27, 2018
Last modified
May 05, 2021
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- Data files
- Training_ALL_anonymized
- Baseline_Malawi_clean_September_2018_BS
- First_followup_Malawi_clean_September_2018_F
- Fourth_followup_Malawi_clean_September_2018_F4
-
reasons for
people that did
not take
BRC_edited - Second_followup_Malawi_clean_September_2018_F2
- strata_llw_&_bt
- survey_completion
- Third_followup_Malawi_clean_September_2018_F3
- BRIE_finalpanel_Allfollowups_SEP2018
What happened to this other business that you are not operating anymore? (s15q6)
Data file: Baseline_Malawi_clean_September_2018_BS
Overview
Valid:
1269
Invalid:
1733
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
4683
End:
4684
Width:
2
Range:
-9 - 15
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -9 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| -8 | Don't know | 0 |
0%
|
| -7 | Notappl | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Bussiness was shut down due to regulation issues | 90 |
7.1%
|
| 2 | Not enough money to purchase adequate equipment/transport/inputs/workers | 211 |
16.6%
|
| 3 | Not enough customers | 127 |
10%
|
| 4 | Did not have right technical skills | 33 |
2.6%
|
| 5 | Could not manage finances properly | 122 |
9.6%
|
| 6 | Could not manage workers properly | 14 |
1.1%
|
| 7 | Found a better job | 28 |
2.2%
|
| 8 | Started another bussiness with prospects | 478 |
37.7%
|
| 9 | Someone bought old bussiness | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Family reasons | 74 |
5.8%
|
| 11 | Other(specify) | 39 |
3.1%
|
| 12 | THEFT | 19 |
1.5%
|
| 13 | PROFIT WAS TOO LOW | 14 |
1.1%
|
| 14 | HEALTH PROBLEMS | 7 |
0.6%
|
| 15 | THE BUSINESS IS SEASONAL | 9 |
0.7%
|
| Sysmiss | 1733 |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.