The Firm Adoption of Technology (FAT) Survey, 2019

Bangladesh, 2019

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Reference ID

BGD_2019_FAT_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/hgry-h633

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Xavier Cirera, Diego Comin, Marcio Cruz

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The Firm Adoption of Technology (FAT) Survey

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Mar 05, 2026

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Apr 23, 2026

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Challenge to hiring engineers, computer programmers, or equivalent (d5b)

Data file: fat_bangladesh_disclosure

Overview

Valid: 196

Invalid: 707

Minimum: -9

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 34

Range: -9 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	1	0.5%
1	No challenges	72	36.7%
2	Lack of available prof.	29	14.8%
3	Lack of available high-skill prof.	67	34.2%
4	High salaries required	27	13.8%
Sysmiss		707

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.

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