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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Adjustment of labour during technological changes (d5f)

Data file: fat_bangladesh_disclosure

Overview

Valid: 903

Invalid: 0

Minimum: -9

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 43

Range: -9 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know	1	0.1%
0	No changes to N of workers	250	27.7%
1	Same workers & some special. training	463	51.3%
2	Fired some workers & did not replace them	27	3%
3	Hire more workers with same skills	106	11.7%
4	Hire more workers with more special. skills	56	6.2%
5	Other sources	0	0%

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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