Growth & Employment Program - Insourcing and Outsourcing Impact Evaluation Data 2016-2019

Nigeria, 2016 - 2019

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NGA_2016-2019_GEMIE-IO_v01_M

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https://doi.org/10.48529/r3qg-b983

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David McKenzie, Stephen Anderson

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Impact Evaluation Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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8A. What was the main reason you decided to use an outside Accounting agency? (E8A)

Data file: CleanedFU1.dta

Overview

Valid: 92

Invalid: 661

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 5034

End: 5037

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	To save the time involved in record keeping and preparing accounts	12	13%
2	To complete accounting tasks that I do not trust an employee to be in charge of	2	2.2%
3	To complete more advanced accounting tasks that I do not have the skills to do myself	27	29.3%
4	To receive some form of guarantee for quality (e.g. financial statements audited and signed-off by an independent accountant)	24	26.1%
5	To improve the overall management of financial activities in my business	22	23.9%
6	Other (specify): ______________________________	5	5.4%
Sysmiss		661

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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