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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries 2008-2014

Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Nigeria, 2008 - 2014
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Reference ID
WLD_2008-2014_BPSFDC_v01_M
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48529/ter4-1c33
Producer(s)
David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
Collection(s)
Development Research Microdata Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Mar 15, 2016
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  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    WLD_2008-2014_BPSFDC_v01_M

    Title

    Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries 2008-2014

    Country/Economy
    Name Country code
    Chile CHL
    Ghana GHA
    Kenya KEN
    Sri Lanka LKA
    Mexico MEX
    Nigeria NGA
    Study type

    Enterprise Survey

    Abstract
    The dataset documented here contains information from surveys of micro and small enterprises conducted in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka between 2008 and 2014. Researchers from the World Bank and the University of Warwick developed a survey instrument with 26 questions that measured business practices in marketing, stock-keeping, record-keeping, and financial planning. The goal of the research was to examine the relationship between management practices and firm outcomes.

    The surveys samples varied in their representativeness and size, because they were in most cases conducted as part of impact evaluations of particular programs. The surveys conducted in Bangladesh, Kenya, Mexico, and Sri Lanka provided representative samples of firms of particular size cutoffs, while those in Ghana and Nigeria came from applicants to business plan competitions. The Chile survey was administered to a sample of applicants to a government microenterprise training program.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Firm

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the study includes:

    • marketing practices
    • buying and stock control practices
    • costing and record-keeping practices
    • financial planning practices

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    David McKenzie World Bank
    Christopher Woodruff University of Warwick
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Knowledge for Change Trust Fund Funder

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The samples were all drawn for purposes other than testing the business practices instrument, and some were selected to reflect very specific sub-populations of interest for particular studies. They range from female-owned subsistence enterprises to a sample of highly-educated owners applying to a business plan competition. But while the samples were not formally designed to be representative of micro- and small-scale enterprises in each country, collectively they reflect the ranges of enterprises in low- and middle-income countries.

    Detailed information about sampling in each of the seven countries can be found in "Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries" report (p.23-25), available in external resources.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Researches developed a set of 26 questions that measured key business practices used in the day-to-day running of small businesses. These questions were motivated by the content of the International Labour Organization (ILO’s) "Improve Your Business" training curriculum, which covered marketing, buying and stock control, costing and record-keeping, and financial planning.

    Examples of business practice questions asked in this study are provided in Bangladesh Formal and Informal Enterprise Survey (Section 7, starting page 17) and Sri-Lanka Female Enterprise Survey (Section 9, starting page 18). Both surveys are published as external resources.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2008 2014

    Depositor information

    Depositor
    Name Affiliation
    DECRG: Finance & Priv Sec Devt World Bank

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Example:

    David McKenzie, World Bank, Christopher Woodruff, University of Warwick. Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries (BPSFDC) 2008-2014. WLD_2008-2014_BPSFDC_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date].

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email
    David McKenzie World Bank dmckenzie@worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_WLD_2008-2014_BPSFDC_v02_M_WB

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group World Bank Study documentation
    Date of Metadata Production

    2016-03-14

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    DDI Document - Version 02 - (04/21/21)
    This version is identical to DDI_WLD_2008-2014_BPSFDC_v01_M_WB but country field has been updated to capture all the countries covered by survey.

    v01 (March 2016)

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