EGY_MSEs_2003_VR1.0 EGY_MSEs_2003_VR1.0 Economic Research Forum 2003 Nesstar Publisher Version 1.0 Micro and Small Enterprises Survey, MSEs 2003 MSEs 2003 EGY_MSEs_2003_VR1.0 Economic Research Forum

Alia El Mahdi

Jacques Charmes

Donald Mead

Ferhad Mehran

(c) 2003, Economic Research Forum Nesstar Publisher European Commission (through the FEMISE 2 project) Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development International Development Research Centre United States Agency for International Development Economic Research Forum (ERF) - 21 Al-Sad Al-Aaly St., Dokki, Giza, Egypt Enterprise Survey [en/oth] Small and Micro Enterprises Labor Education Egypt Covering a sample of 3 major administrative regions (Metropolitan areas, Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt). The survey covered a national sample of Micro and Small Enterprises. Sample survey data [ssd] Face-to-face [f2f] The Field Staff was divided into 6 teams; each team has a supervisor and 6-7 interviewers. The fieldwork for the MSES began on April 1st, 2003 and was completed on May 15th, 2003. In addition to leading the team, supervisors were responsible for field editing of the questionnaires. To assure quality 2 general supervisors were responsible for checking the collected data by re-interviewing a randomly selected sample from each interviewer's work. Economic Research Forum Licensed datasets, accessible under conditions. The Economic Research Forum has granted the researcher access to relevant data following exhaustive efforts to protect the confidentiality of individual data. The researcher is solely responsible for any analysis or conclusions drawn from available data. Egypt enterprise data phase 1, 2003.NSDstat 4958 456 Nesstar 200801 Egypt all household data phase 1, 2003.NSDstat 24471 41 Nesstar 200801 Egypt household with closed enterprises data phase 1, 2003.NSDstat 261 44 Nesstar 200801 Egypt listing data phase 1, 2003.NSDstat 26435 19 Nesstar 200801 governorate 4958 0 1 8 1 cairo 1168 2 giza 898 3 alexandria 448 4 damitta 432 5 gharbia 452 6 fayoum 214 7 assuit 935 8 sohag 411 markaz code 4958 0 1 51 5.753 4.827 shiakha/village 4958 0 101 816 101 el hanfy 56 102 el kalifah 27 103 darb el hosr 16 104 el tamar 36 105 el esma'iliah 26 106 haret el room 66 107 el khoronfosh 156 108 el ottouf 112 109 el waily el kebeer shark 57 110 el sarayat el sharkiah 14 111 manshiat el bakry 63 112 tolombat ein shams 11 113 kafr el bashah 20 114 kafr el shourafah 32 115 el shamashergi 61 116 el sharabiah 62 117 ein el seerah 50 118 el abasiah el sharkiah 49 119 arab el hesn 36 120 el ameeriah 17 121 el zaytoon 50 122 meniat el sereg 63 123 el faoualah 52 124 roud el farag el balad 36 201 gezirat imbabah 38 202 madinat el omal 191 203 meet okbah 76 204 el moneeb 47 205 sakiat meki 79 206 ard el loaa' 41 207 el kom el akhdar 41 208 6th of october city 47 209 abou el nomrous 39 210 el saf 40 211 el ayatt 44 212 aoseem 68 213 el shorafah 46 214 mazghonah 21 215 ttamouh 34 216 el moa'tamidiah 46 301 el manshiah el bahariah 15 302 fleming 39 303 el ibrahimiah 65 304 noubar 38 305 el betash 35 306 el thera' el bahary 4 307 el sabourah 11 308 souk el tork 16 309 kom el dekah 40 310 abou el noateer 20 311 imbrozo 60 312 el amod 16 313 el gharbaniat 3 314 el haloagy 20 315 el genenah el kebeerah 22 316 el soubhia 44 401 kism rabi' damita 227 402 faraskour 42 403 ezbat el borg 70 404 kafr saad 22 405 el khalifah 7 406 shatta 34 407 el tawfikiah 20 408 karam & rezk 10 501 wabour el nour 11 502 el dwaween 29 503 el kafrah el sharkiah 40 504 kottour 65 505 kafr el zayat 54 506 el santtah 38 507 hoseen sayed ahmed 68 508 mahalat el borg 49 509 kafr faialah 9 510 kafr el mansourah 5 511 houeen 6 512 kafr el danmeer 9 513 berma 30 514 shobra malakan 13 515 kafr shamakh 7 516 meshla 19 601 kism rabi' fayoum 37 602 kouhafah 27 603 ettsa 34 604 senoures 42 605 abgeeg 17 606 el lahoun 44 607 el mahmoudiah 7 608 el tawfikiah 6 701 the 1st shiakhah 133 702 th 3rd shiakhah 109 703 el walidiah el bahariah 140 704 the 7th shiakhah 116 705 el nasriah 71 706 sahel seleem 73 707 manfaloutt 78 708 abnoub 122 709 shatab 31 710 el hedaiah 11 711 el swalem el bahariah 5 712 ank 3 713 el khawaled 7 714 el medour 4 715 sallam 24 716 el femah 8 801 saleh 23 802 mazen 33 803 naser 41 804 el baliena 78 805 el maraghah 43 806 dar el salam 41 807 gerga 45 808 sakoltah 31 809 el sheekh makram 15 810 el shohadaa 9 811 aolad yehya bahry 11 812 beet khallaf 8 813 koum el saaidah 5 814 el gabab 5 815 fogly 16 816 el sheekh rahoom 7 urban/rural 4958 0 1 2 1 urban 4434 2 rural 524 questionnaire number 4958 0 1 227 38.2 38.467 questionnaire id 4958 0 101001 816007 398891.971 247193.754 result of interview 4958 0 1 1 1 completed 4958 2 owner/manager not present 0 3 refuse 0 4 address not found 0 5 temporarly closed 0 6 permenantly closed 0 7 sampling error 0 interviewer code 4957 1 2 73 38.375 18.292 supervisor code 4955 3 0 90 35.227 18.697 office editor 4956 2 0 65 4.02 2.868 keyer 4958 0 1 15 6.321 2.734 1 148 2 410 3 420 4 473 5 387 6 605 7 594 8 490 9 958 10 339 11 111 15 23 day of interview 4933 25 1 31 14.649 8.104 month of interview 4933 25 3 5 4.008 0.192 3 71 4 4751 5 111 Sysmiss 25 year of interview 4958 0 2003 2003 2003 0 2003 4958 region 4958 0 1 3 1 metropolitan 2367 2 lower eghypt 884 3 upper egypt 1707 q4: economic activity 4958 0 112 9309 5167.128 1507.173 q5a: permanency of enterprise 4952 6 1 8 1 permanent 4841 2 seasonal 64 3 temporary 44 8 do not know 3 Sysmiss 6 q5b1: the 1st most important product 4776 182 0 137 0 nothing 5 1 tailor for men 69 2 tailor for women/kids 18 3 cars fixing 205 4 vegetables and fruit 238 5 furniture (bed room-salon-dining room) 256 6 haberdashery(stationery-perfume-sweets-miscellaneous…….) 181 7 hair dresser (men-women) 184 8 drinks 172 9 filling fire extinguishers 4 10 iron utensils,nails and paints 84 11 grocery and sweets 692 12 dairying 60 13 chicken 184 14 subsidized tamween goods 54 15 kids games(atari) 29 16 filling lighters 2 17 painting furniture 13 18 carpets,fabrics and furniture 82 19 bags and shoes 193 20 foul and falafel (restaurant services) 179 21 ready made clothes(men-women-kids) 209 22 electric appliances 157 23 cleaning and ironing clothes 57 24 communication services 44 25 education 10 26 house utensils , tools and services 115 27 axe and hammer hands 3 28 gold, silver and women accessories 107 29 plastic containers and chemicals 21 30 warehouse 1 31 cassette and video tapes 15 32 26 33 renting casettes and video tapes 28 34 glasswork 16 35 fodder 66 36 documents photocopy 35 37 eye glasses 8 38 soft drinks (with soda) 51 39 old books 2 40 typing thesis 10 41 sugarcane and tamrhindi juice 50 42 iron, cement and gebsum 25 43 spices and herbs 18 44 photographs (studio) 37 45 renting clothes 1 46 upholstery(mattress , pillows…. 7 47 furniture upholstery 12 48 fixing electric appliances 4 49 goods transfer 3 50 rent and sale of properties(broker) 4 51 bakery 52 52 scrap iron 7 53 been seeds 2 54 cars upholstery 1 55 iron windows and doors 25 56 wooden doors and windows 29 57 wheat grinding 15 58 plastic bags 5 59 tourism 10 60 making keys 4 61 hookah needs and coal 5 62 iron soldering and stippling 23 63 rent and maintenance of bicycles and motorcycles 44 64 selling copper 10 65 making curtains 6 66 motor-oil change and lubricants 3 67 land selling 3 68 23 69 quran teaching 4 70 medicine 8 71 children diapers 1 72 gifts 20 73 sanitary 32 74 plumber 6 75 gasoline 7 76 printing books/cards 10 77 1 78 sweets(gateaux-baklava 14 79 6 80 internet caf? and teaching computer 23 81 decoration 1 82 type writing 2 83 cattle selling 11 84 ceramics and flagstones 14 85 pottery making 1 86 metal turnery 95 87 cotton selling 8 88 stock exchange 1 89 haj 5 90 pharonic statutes and presents 2 91 medicine (pharmacy) 6 92 home birds and fish 1 93 magazines, books and newspapers 3 94 scales maintenance and selling 6 95 video taping at occasions 1 96 berseem selling 1 97 constructing buildings 1 98 mobile phones and accessories 11 99 salted fish(fesikh) 8 100 pesticides 8 101 nursery 3 102 occasions hall 2 103 funeral cars 0 104 fish 70 105 nuts,crackers 24 106 paper products 1 107 engineering design and consulting 3 108 wedding furniture and settings rent 1 109 sunshades for houses and shops 3 110 copper and aluminum painting 4 111 ships ropes and chains 6 112 agricultural tools 1 113 veterinay medicin 1 114 old furniture selling 1 115 hand-writing and paints artist 2 116 mobile phone cards 1 117 baskets 1 121 dental clinic equipment 2 122 computers trade 1 123 wooden frames and paints 2 124 1 125 advertising 3 126 cloth darning 2 127 weight dieting 1 128 gas bombs 1 129 alcoholic beer 2 130 wedding hall rent 0 131 stock brokerage 1 132 hotel 1 133 wedding cards 1 134 sea shell products 0 135 clothes dying 1 136 wooden statutes 1 137 tractors (mechanic) 1 138 watch fixing 0 139 marble 0 140 garage 0 141 washing machines and refregerators spare parts 0 142 used clothes 0 143 women shoes accessories 0 144 elevators maintainence 0 145 natural leather 0 146 cinema projectors 0 147 export and import 0 148 palm products(greed) 0 149 cars renting 0 150 scale fixing 0 151 motorcycle fixing and spare parts 0 152 chemical cleaning 0 153 alumetal doors and windows 0 154 institute for tourism and hotels 0 Sysmiss 182 q5b2: the 2nd most important product 762 4196 0 133 0 nothing 14 1 tailor for men 0 2 tailor for women/kids 3 3 cars fixing 1 4 vegetables and fruit 6 5 furniture (bed room-salon-dining room) 5 6 haberdashery(stationery-perfume-sweets-miscellaneous…….) 43 7 hair dresser (men-women) 2 8 drinks 4 9 filling fire extinguishers 1 10 iron utensils,nails and paints 6 11 grocery and sweets 148 12 dairying 25 13 chicken 2 14 subsidized tamween goods 13 15 kids games(atari) 7 16 filling lighters 2 17 painting furniture 2 18 carpets,fabrics and furniture 12 19 bags and shoes 6 20 foul and falafel (restaurant services) 7 21 ready made clothes(men-women-kids) 17 22 electric appliances 16 23 cleaning and ironing clothes 1 24 communication services 12 25 education 3 26 house utensils , tools and services 10 27 axe and hammer hands 2 28 gold, silver and women accessories 15 29 plastic containers and chemicals 4 30 warehouse 0 31 cassette and video tapes 0 32 1 33 renting casettes and video tapes 5 34 glasswork 1 35 fodder 28 36 documents photocopy 30 37 eye glasses 0 38 soft drinks (with soda) 182 39 old books 0 40 typing thesis 4 41 sugarcane and tamrhindi juice 2 42 iron, cement and gebsum 4 43 spices and herbs 5 44 photographs (studio) 2 45 renting clothes 0 46 upholstery(mattress , pillows…. 2 47 furniture upholstery 2 48 fixing electric appliances 0 49 goods transfer 1 50 rent and sale of properties(broker) 1 51 bakery 5 52 scrap iron 0 53 been seeds 2 54 cars upholstery 1 55 iron windows and doors 0 56 wooden doors and windows 3 57 wheat grinding 2 58 plastic bags 1 59 tourism 1 60 making keys 1 61 hookah needs and coal 1 62 iron soldering and stippling 6 63 rent and maintenance of bicycles and motorcycles 0 64 selling copper 2 65 making curtains 3 66 motor-oil change and lubricants 1 67 land selling 0 68 1 69 quran teaching 0 70 medicine 0 71 children diapers 0 72 gifts 24 73 sanitary 8 74 plumber 0 75 gasoline 2 76 printing books/cards 0 77 4 78 sweets(gateaux-baklava 6 80 internet caf? and teaching computer 4 81 decoration 1 82 type writing 1 83 cattle selling 0 84 ceramics and flagstones 4 85 pottery making 0 86 metal turnery 4 87 cotton selling 0 88 stock exchange 0 89 haj 2 90 pharonic statutes and presents 0 91 medicine (pharmacy) 2 92 home birds and fish 0 93 magazines, books and newspapers 0 94 scales maintenance and selling 0 95 video taping at occasions 1 96 berseem selling 0 97 constructing buildings 0 98 mobile phones and accessories 0 99 salted fish(fesikh) 0 100 pesticides 0 101 nursery 0 102 occasions hall 1 103 funeral cars 0 104 fish 0 105 nuts,crackers 1 106 paper products 1 107 engineering design and consulting 0 108 wedding furniture and settings rent 1 109 sunshades for houses and shops 0 110 copper and aluminum painting 1 111 ships ropes and chains 0 112 agricultural tools 0 113 veterinay medicin 0 114 old furniture selling 0 115 hand-writing and paints artist 0 116 mobile phone cards 2 117 baskets 0 121 dental clinic equipment 0 122 computers trade 0 123 wooden frames and paints 2 125 advertising 0 126 cloth darning 0 127 weight dieting 0 128 gas bombs 0 129 alcoholic beer 0 130 wedding hall rent 0 131 stock brokerage 0 132 hotel 0 133 wedding cards 1 134 sea shell products 0 135 clothes dying 0 136 wooden statutes 0 137 tractors (mechanic) 0 138 watch fixing 0 139 marble 0 140 garage 0 141 washing machines and refregerators spare parts 0 142 used clothes 0 143 women shoes accessories 0 144 elevators maintainence 0 145 natural leather 0 146 cinema projectors 0 147 export and import 0 148 palm products(greed) 0 149 cars renting 0 150 scale fixing 0 151 motorcycle fixing and spare parts 0 152 chemical cleaning 0 153 alumetal doors and windows 0 154 institute for tourism and hotels 0 Sysmiss 4196 q5b3: the 3rd most important product 155 4803 0 110 0 nothing 27 1 tailor for men 1 2 tailor for women/kids 0 3 cars fixing 0 4 vegetables and fruit 1 5 furniture (bed room-salon-dining room) 1 6 haberdashery(stationery-perfume-sweets-miscellaneous…….) 8 7 hair dresser (men-women) 0 8 drinks 2 9 filling fire extinguishers 0 10 iron utensils,nails and paints 2 11 grocery and sweets 17 12 dairying 7 13 chicken 2 14 subsidized tamween goods 3 15 kids games(atari) 5 16 filling lighters 0 17 painting furniture 0 18 carpets,fabrics and furniture 2 19 bags and shoes 1 20 foul and falafel (restaurant services) 0 21 ready made clothes(men-women-kids) 2 22 electric appliances 1 23 cleaning and ironing clothes 0 24 communication services 2 25 education 0 26 house utensils , tools and services 3 27 axe and hammer hands 0 28 gold, silver and women accessories 9 29 plastic containers and chemicals 2 30 warehouse 1 31 cassette and video tapes 0 33 renting casettes and video tapes 3 34 glasswork 1 35 fodder 2 36 documents photocopy 4 37 eye glasses 0 38 soft drinks (with soda) 32 39 old books 0 40 typing thesis 0 41 sugarcane and tamrhindi juice 0 42 iron, cement and gebsum 0 43 spices and herbs 0 44 photographs (studio) 0 45 renting clothes 0 46 upholstery(mattress , pillows…. 0 47 furniture upholstery 0 48 fixing electric appliances 1 49 goods transfer 0 50 rent and sale of properties(broker) 0 51 bakery 1 52 scrap iron 0 53 been seeds 0 54 cars upholstery 0 55 iron windows and doors 0 56 wooden doors and windows 0 57 wheat grinding 0 58 plastic bags 0 59 tourism 0 60 making keys 0 61 hookah needs and coal 0 62 iron soldering and stippling 0 63 rent and maintenance of bicycles and motorcycles 0 64 selling copper 0 65 making curtains 0 66 motor-oil change and lubricants 0 67 land selling 0 68 0 69 quran teaching 0 70 medicine 0 71 children diapers 1 72 gifts 5 73 sanitary 0 74 plumber 0 75 gasoline 1 76 printing books/cards 0 78 sweets(gateaux-baklava 0 80 internet caf? and teaching computer 0 81 decoration 0 82 type writing 0 83 cattle selling 0 84 ceramics and flagstones 0 85 pottery making 0 86 metal turnery 0 87 cotton selling 0 88 stock exchange 0 89 haj 0 90 pharonic statutes and presents 0 91 medicine (pharmacy) 0 92 home birds and fish 0 93 magazines, books and newspapers 0 94 scales maintenance and selling 0 95 video taping at occasions 0 96 berseem selling 0 97 constructing buildings 0 98 mobile phones and accessories 0 99 salted fish(fesikh) 2 100 pesticides 0 101 nursery 0 102 occasions hall 0 103 funeral cars 1 104 fish 0 105 nuts,crackers 1 106 paper products 0 107 engineering design and consulting 0 108 wedding furniture and settings rent 0 109 sunshades for houses and shops 0 110 copper and aluminum painting 1 111 ships ropes and chains 0 112 agricultural tools 0 113 veterinay medicin 0 114 old furniture selling 0 115 hand-writing and paints artist 0 116 mobile phone cards 0 117 baskets 0 121 dental clinic equipment 0 122 computers trade 0 123 wooden frames and paints 0 125 advertising 0 126 cloth darning 0 127 weight dieting 0 128 gas bombs 0 129 alcoholic beer 0 130 wedding hall rent 0 131 stock brokerage 0 132 hotel 0 133 wedding cards 0 134 sea shell products 0 135 clothes dying 0 136 wooden statutes 0 137 tractors (mechanic) 0 138 watch fixing 0 139 marble 0 140 garage 0 141 washing machines and refregerators spare parts 0 142 used clothes 0 143 women shoes accessories 0 144 elevators maintainence 0 145 natural leather 0 146 cinema projectors 0 147 export and import 0 148 palm products(greed) 0 149 cars renting 0 150 scale fixing 0 151 motorcycle fixing and spare parts 0 152 chemical cleaning 0 153 alumetal doors and windows 0 154 institute for tourism and hotels 0 Sysmiss 4803 q6: engaged in other activities 4952 6 0 1 0 no 4761 1 yes 191 Sysmiss 6 q7: other economic activity 174 4784 3 9241 5577.908 1183.703 q8: is this the only location to operate 4951 7 0 1 0 no 185 1 yes 4766 Sysmiss 7 q9: number of other locations 159 4799 1 6 1.239 0.621 1 131 2 21 3 6 6 1 Sysmiss 4799 q10a1: number of workers in the 1st location 172 4786 0 30 0 32 1 45 2 29 3 30 4 15 5 5 7 2 8 2 9 1 10 3 11 1 12 1 20 5 30 1 98 do not know 0 Sysmiss 4786 q10b1: activity of the 1st location 167 4791 4 9303 5370.868 1500.206 q10c1: link of the 1st location with enterprise 180 4778 1 7 1 branch 81 2 headquarters 24 3 sales outlet 14 4 storage area 51 5 production of intermediate goods 5 6 purchasing 0 7 other 5 Sysmiss 4778 q10o1: other 2 4956 1 3 1 management office 1 2 station 0 3 workshop 1 Sysmiss 4956 q10a2: number of workers in the 2nd location 26 4932 0 45 0 1 1 3 2 5 3 5 4 3 5 2 6 1 9 1 10 1 11 1 20 1 25 1 45 1 98 do not know 0 Sysmiss 4932 q10b2: activity of the 2nd location 22 4936 999 6304 4801.773 1343.729 q10c2: link of the 2nd location with enterprise 28 4930 1 4 1 branch 17 2 headquarters 6 3 sales outlet 3 4 storage area 2 5 production of intermediate goods 0 6 purchasing 0 7 other 0 Sysmiss 4930 q10o2: other 0 4958 1 management office 0 2 station 0 3 workshop 0 Sysmiss 4958 q10a3: number of workers in the 3rd location 9 4949 1 98 1 1 2 2 6 1 10 3 98 do not know 2 Sysmiss 4949 q10b3: activity of the 3rd location 7 4951 5220 5520 5271 110.027 q10c3: link of the 3rd location with enterprise 10 4948 1 3 1 branch 6 2 headquarters 2 3 sales outlet 2 4 storage area 0 5 production of intermediate goods 0 6 purchasing 0 7 other 0 Sysmiss 4948 q10o3: other 0 4958 1 management office 0 2 station 0 3 workshop 0 Sysmiss 4958 q11: work hours per day 4947 11 0 24 9.673 2.882 q12: work days per week 4951 7 0 8 0 3 1 8 2 10 3 15 4 39 5 87 6 3226 7 1560 8 do not know 3 Sysmiss 7 q13: work weeks per month 4950 8 0 4 3.991 0.154 0 1 1 9 2 4 3 4 4 4932 Sysmiss 8 q14: work months per year 4950 8 0 12 11.916 0.71 0 2 2 4 3 5 4 1 5 9 6 18 7 3 8 6 9 1 10 10 11 64 12 4827 Sysmiss 8 q15: sector of ownership 4951 7 1 3 1 co-operative 184 2 private domestic 4754 3 private foreign 13 4 private domestic - foreign partenership 0 Sysmiss 7 q16: gender 4958 0 1 2 1 male 4439 2 female 519 q17: ownership 4953 5 1 2 1 owner 3279 2 manager 1674 Sysmiss 5 q18: is this the owner/manager's sole economic activity 4952 6 0 1 0 no 363 1 yes 4589 Sysmiss 6 q19: the most important other economic activity 355 4603 111 9500 6001.42 2686.306 q20: age 4956 2 14 83 40.336 13.401 q21: age at starting first job 4943 15 4 70 19.785 7.425 q22: where born 4946 12 1 3 1 same governorate 4460 2 different governorate 475 3 outside the country 11 Sysmiss 12 q23: birth place were rural or urban? 4929 29 1 2 1 urban 3889 2 rural 1040 Sysmiss 29 q24: nationality 4958 0 1 2 1 egyptian 4937 2 not egyptian 21 q25: marital status 4954 4 1 4 1 never married 1169 2 married 3575 3 widowed 167 4 divorced 43 Sysmiss 4 q26: number of children less than 18 3762 1196 0 12 1.964 1.56 0 834 1 670 2 964 3 735 4 343 5 131 6 58 7 15 8 7 9 3 10 1 12 1 Sysmiss 1196 q27: number of years of education 4956 2 0 20 8.455 5.67 0 1136 1 20 2 33 3 63 4 83 5 172 6 413 7 47 8 99 9 323 10 33 11 143 12 1429 13 18 14 246 15 38 16 624 17 17 18 10 19 3 20 6 Sysmiss 2 q28: formal technical or vocational educ. 4956 2 0 1 0 no 4810 1 yes 146 Sysmiss 2 q29: number of years of formal technical or vocational educa 136 4822 0 19 3.36 2.089 0 4 1 4 2 23 3 64 4 23 5 12 6 2 8 1 12 2 19 1 Sysmiss 4822 q30: training-apprenticeship experience( related to present 4958 0 0 1 0 no 3480 1 yes 1478 q31: number of months of training 1464 3494 0 90 0 less than a month 5 1 45 2 68 3 39 4 41 5 23 6 82 7 7 8 11 9 14 10 10 11 3 12 845 13 1 14 2 15 6 16 5 17 1 18 11 20 3 22 2 24 124 25 2 28 1 30 4 35 1 36 45 38 1 40 1 48 26 50 2 60 25 72 6 84 1 90 1 Sysmiss 3494 q32: type of enterprise provided training 1456 3502 1 8 1 family enterprise 431 2 domestic ngo 3 3 foreign ngo 0 4 co-operative 0 5 private firm 910 6 public firm 15 7 training center 22 8 other 75 Sysmiss 3502 q33: labour force participation 4956 2 1 7 1 employed 3207 2 unemployed 407 3 student (out of labour force) 807 4 housewife (out of labour force) 234 5 did not desire to work (out of labour force) 31 6 disabled (out of labour force) 12 7 military service (out of labour force) 258 Sysmiss 2 q34: previous status in employment 3190 1768 1 6 1 employee 2448 2 employer 112 3 own-account 219 4 member of co-operative 4 5 family worker 397 6 other 10 Sysmiss 1768 q35: previous occupation 3187 1771 111 9996 5863.771 2085.046 q36: sector of ownership 3155 1803 1 7 1 government 385 2 public 118 3 domestic ngo 8 4 foreign ngo 3 5 co-operative 18 6 private domestic 2574 7 private foreign 49 Sysmiss 1803 q37: in establishment 3182 1776 0 1 0 no 717 1 yes 2465 Sysmiss 1776 q38: previous economic activit 3186 1772 111 9996 4752.222 2277.433 q39: previous geographic location 3188 1770 1 3 1 same as present 960 2 different inside the country 2004 3 different outside the country 224 Sysmiss 1770 q40: reason for changing previous job 3191 1767 1 6 1 laid-off 105 2 low earnings 985 3 bad work conditions 453 4 family reasons 350 5 had to move out of previous location 250 6 other 1048 Sysmiss 1767 q41: present status in employment 4931 27 1 4 1 employee 847 2 employer 2240 3 own-account 1252 4 family worker 592 Sysmiss 27 q42: reasons for choosing present job 4900 58 1 8 1 suits qualifications 98 2 has experience in business 1380 3 capital requirements reasonable 128 4 family business 924 5 desire to set up a new enterprise 540 6 to improve living conditions 1315 7 only option available 462 8 other 53 Sysmiss 58 q43: number of years working in present job 4944 14 0 67 9.386 9.754 q44: work at home? 4947 11 1 3 1 no 4672 2 own home 164 3 another home 111 Sysmiss 11 q45: minutes it takes to arrive work place 4543 415 0 520 18.411 22.005 q46: description of work place 4945 13 1 10 1 workshop / factory 569 2 shop 3845 3 office 63 4 room 53 5 apartment 49 6 separate building 19 7 vehicle 23 8 open space 172 9 kiosk 114 10 other 38 Sysmiss 13 q47: ownership of work place 4954 4 1 6 1 owned 961 2 shared ownership 161 3 rented 3419 4 shared rent 278 5 squatter 94 6 free 41 7 other 0 Sysmiss 4 q48: has partners 4950 8 0 2 0 no 3759 1 yes 1145 2 dosen't know 46 Sysmiss 8 q49: number of other partners 1132 3826 1 20 3.132 2.58 1 270 2 343 3 194 4 109 5 75 6 42 7 36 8 17 9 11 10 12 11 4 12 5 13 2 15 4 16 2 17 1 18 1 20 4 Sysmiss 3826 q50: who are those parteners? 1145 0 ? 26 A 896 AB 8 AC 19 AD 4 AE 1 AX 1 B 62 BC 1 BE 1 C 90 D 14 E 17 F 2 G 1 X 2 q51: belongs to a business association 4958 0 ? 3 A 1506 AB 10 ABX 1 AX 1 B 24 BC 2 C 4 X 7 Y 3400 q52: the most important business association 13 4945 1 4 1 chamber of commerce 3 2 specialised federation of industries 8 3 geographical federation 0 4 other 2 Sysmiss 4945 q53: benefit of association 1558 0 ? 14 A 241 ABC 1 AC 3 ACH 1 AD 1 ADE 1 AE 1 AI 1 B 16 BDX 1 BH 1 BI 2 C 18 CG 1 D 53 DE 3 DEGI 1 DFH 1 DG 1 DGI 1 DH 1 DI 1 E 28 EH 1 EHIL 1 EIX 1 F 16 G 14 GH 1 GI 3 GK 1 H 17 HI 1 I 122 IJ 1 IK 1 J 4 JK 1 K 1 L 11 X 968 q54: need support of association in 1545 3413 0 13 0 none 843 1 setting-up enterprise 154 2 communication services 11 3 information (knowhow, technology) 24 4 financial 114 5 management 27 6 training of workers 16 7 production 22 8 promoting inter-firm linkages 20 9 domestic marketing 182 10 importing 7 11 exporting 5 12 dispute settlement 10 13 other 110 Sysmiss 3413 q55: how to settle business disputes 4940 18 0 6 0 no disputes 3157 1 direct settlement 1714 2 court system 24 3 business association arbitration 3 4 senior business colleague 7 5 community leader 34 6 other 1 Sysmiss 18 q56: legal form 4915 43 1 6 1 sole proprietorship 3871 2 simple partnership 996 3 limited liability 21 4 limited liability by shares 1 5 joint stock 7 6 other 19 Sysmiss 43 q57: neighbouring enterprises engaged in activities related 4951 7 0 1 0 no 3602 1 yes 1349 Sysmiss 7 q58: name of cluster or estate 1322 3636 1 752 1 alexandria gomrok 2 2 fayoum omar ibn elkhattab st. 4 3 fayoum ellabban 2 4 fayoum etsa 4 5 fayoum abou bakr elseddik 1 6 alexandria mostafa kamel 6 7 fayoum saad zaghloul st. 4 8 fayoum elerian 3 9 alexandria elsobhia 4 10 haraza st. 5 11 fayoum nasser st. 4 12 fayoum elsentral st. 2 13 fayoum adly yakan st 1 14 fayoum elgendy st. 1 15 alexandria elmofatesh st. 1 16 fayoum sook elkhodar 2 17 fayoum batal elsalam 2 18 fayoum kohafa 2 19 fayoum orabi 3 20 fayoum elkenisa st. 2 21 alexandria elmanshia 2 22 alexandria sook eltork 2 23 alexandria nabata st. 5 24 alexandria elhalwagy 3 25 alexandria kom eldekka 1 26 fayoum ellahon tarik elmostashfa 1 27 alexandria elshamarly 1 28 alexandria elgeninaa elkebira 2 29 alexandria elfarhawa 1 30 fayoum ellahon ezbat amin faragala 5 31 fayoum ellahon 2 32 alexandriaelmantekalexandriaelsenaeia 1 33 feisal elamir st. 1 34 sohag westelbalad st. 3 35 sohag nasser st. 3 36 sohag infront of university 3 37 sohag bedour st. 1 38 sohag khalf elwady st. 5 39 sohag nagee hamadi 1 40 alexandriasheria 4 41 sohag kobri elbahr st. 1 42 sohag sakalta 3 43 alexandria b115mizalexandriacenter 1 44 alexandria minalexandriacenter 2 45 alexandria lagitee 3 46 cairo elkhalifa 4 47 cairo darb elhosr 1 48 cairo kafr elshorafa 1 49 cairo ein elsira 13 50 cairo abbasia 19 51 cairo elgomhoria 4 52 cairo elwaily 2 53 cairo elsouk st. 3 54 cairo ibn mahim st. 2 55 cairo kasr elneil st. 18 56 cairo manshiat elbakry 15 57 cairo mahmoud baseouny st. 2 58 cairo ashra st. 11 59 cairo elhanafy st. 8 60 cairo swekat elala 3 61 queen center 2 62 abou elsorour street 2 63 cairo saieda zeinab 4 64 cairo computer market 4 65 cairo portsaeed st. 1 66 halakat elkotn 1 67 gharbia kafr elsheikh 1 68 gharbia elgalaa st 1 69 gharbia saad zaghloul st. 14 70 gharbia mahgoub st. 1 71 gharbia abou elakl st. 5 72 gharbia elmanshia st. 1 73 abou keer st. 1 74 elhalwan 1 75 cairo elwaily elkebeer shark 0 76 elsweeka st. 1 77 cairo eroad elfarag 3 78 cairo abo kareem st. 4 79 gharbia elsouk elkebeer st. 1 80 gharbia abo elabbas 9 81 gharbia berma 2 82 cairo elamiria 1 83 gharbia kotour 3 84 alexandria osman abaza 1 85 cairo shobra 19 86 cairo eltaweel 1 87 cairo zeen eldin 2 88 cairo abo elghata 2 89 gharbia tobia 1 90 gharbia potsaeed st 1 91 sohag dar elsalam st. 3 92 1 93 gharbia shobra balkan st. 1 94 sohag saad zaghloul st. 5 95 sohag elkady 2 96 sohag elgohoria 6 97 sohag eltahrir 3 98 4 100 elbosta st. 0 101 elaaref bellah st. 1 102 mazen 2 103 assiut b100ismaeel elshereef st. 5 104 kotb st. 1 105 assiut elgeesh st. 3 106 sohag sakan elgharbia 0 107 sohag elzohour 2 108 assiutelkashef st. 5 109 assiut elsheikh khedr 2 110 assiut portsaeed st. 25 111 abdelmoneem riad 2 112 assiut elsouk st. 11 113 assiut elsheikh mentash st. 1 114 assiut mohamed mahmoud 12 115 assiut elbostan st. 1 116 sohag elmadrasa st. 0 117 domiat hassan cluster 1 118 assiut elkosseir 57 9 119 domiat ezbat elborg 1 120 giza elsouk st. 30 121 assiut eltahrir st. 34 122 giza elgeesh st. 3 123 assiut eltegara st. 10 124 assiut july 23rd st. 19 125 assiut elkobri st. 2 126 giza elomda deebes st. 1 127 assiut gamee elsheikh youssef 1 128 assiut zen eldin elsherif 6 129 giza elbaladeen st. 2 130 assiut tareek elfath 11 131 assiut abo samra st. 6 132 assiut elmaraghi 0 133 kom abbas st. 0 134 d elkhalifa st. 2 135 assiut nady elmoalemeen 2 137 assiut elgomhoria st 2 138 assiut salah salem st. 2 139 assiut riad st. 11 140 assiut elhelaly st. 7 141 giza 6 october henida st. 6 142 assiut eltawonia st. 1 143 assiut elmadares st 1 144 elshahareen st. 1 145 tahounat elnemra st. gharb elbalad 2 146 giza elrardina 6 october 5 147 domiat ard elmashtal 53 148 domiat abo elwafa 42 149 domiat abd elrahman elharani st. 7 150 assiut elteraa 1 151 assiut elnaseria 1 152 assiut zakhari farag st. 1 153 domiat b291 6 october st. 1 154 cairo meniat elsereg 6 155 domiat elsheikh aseel 64 156 cairo dayer elnahia 5 157 domiat elkobri elgedid st. 8 158 cairo elmohandes 3 159 domiat elshazly 3 160 cairo elteraa elbolakia st. 4 161 cairo elkhalafawy 2 162 cairo abd elhameed mostafa st. 1 163 domiat abdmoneem riad 8 164 cairo elbarkoki 2 165 cairo abd elhameed eldeeb 5 167 cairo elkhronfesh 117 168 cairo souk elsharabia 3 169 cairo elsahel 5 170 cairo elotouf 55 171 cairo midan victoria 1 172 cairo madraset tarek st. 2 173 cairo madinat elommal imbaba 32 174 cairo swekat elfakhah 64 175 elfarz st. 1 176 cairo elgeesh st. elsaff 4 177 giza elmakaff 2 178 elsaff st. 13 179 giza elaamel elawal imbaba 1 180 giza elnadi elriadi 8 181 giza elmadares 8 182 giza talaat harb 1 183 cairo harat elarbaeen 6 184 giza mohamed abd elmoneem st. 1 185 giza elgomhoria 4 186 assiut hadar st. 2 187 giza nour eldin st. 1 188 giza ard ellewa 10 189 giza hassan abd elaal st. 1 190 giza gezirat imbaba 3 191 giza tamoh st. 2 192 giza harat nosseir 2 193 cairo eltamar 22 194 1 195 kafr elshorafa st. elsaff 11 196 harat elroom eldarb elahmar 38 197 giza elmoneeb 5 198 giza gamal abd elnasser 2 199 zokak elkhanani 5 200 cairo elzaitoon 2 201 arab elhesn 12 202 cairo abd elkhalek tharwat 3 203 cairo mohamed maziad st. 1 204 cairo elfawala st. 0 206 cairo opera square 2 207 giza feisal st. 4 208 souk sakiat mekki 4 209 giza shader elsamak imbaba 49 210 4 211 1 551 1 581 2 582 2 752 1 Sysmiss 3636 q59: type 1327 3631 1 2 1 cluster 1233 2 industrial estate 94 Sysmiss 3631 q60: is the cluster or estate useful to your business? 1343 3615 0 1 0 no 559 1 yes 784 Sysmiss 3615 q61: benefit of cluster or estate 784 0 A 13 ACL 1 AD 3 ADE 1 ADEI 1 AG 1 AH 2 AI 5 AIL 1 B 19 BG 1 BGHI 1 BGI 1 BH 1 BHL 1 BI 32 C 5 CG 2 CI 9 D 29 DEI 2 DG 5 DGI 2 DI 13 DX 1 E 3 F 2 FI 2 G 44 GH 1 GI 54 GIL 1 H 18 HI 7 I 479 IJ 1 IK 1 IL 3 J 1 L 2 X 13 q62: need support of cluster or estate in 736 4222 0 12 0 none 81 1 setting-up enterprise 15 2 communication services 23 3 information (knowhow, technology) 14 4 financial 22 5 management 1 6 training of workers 2 7 production 62 8 promoting inter-firm linkages 8 9 domestic marketing 498 10 importing 2 11 exporting 1 12 dispute settlement 7 13 other 0 Sysmiss 4222 q63: year of setting-up enterprise in the current location 4909 49 1923 2003 1923 1 1928 2 1930 1 1935 1 1936 1 1937 2 1938 2 1940 8 1941 2 1943 2 1945 2 1946 1 1948 5 1949 1 1950 16 1951 1 1952 7 1953 11 1954 6 1955 9 1956 8 1957 4 1958 9 1959 4 1960 47 1961 9 1962 14 1963 34 1964 10 1965 32 1966 11 1967 14 1968 29 1969 17 1970 66 1971 15 1972 14 1973 101 1974 21 1975 64 1976 24 1977 15 1978 70 1979 22 1980 88 1981 39 1982 40 1983 185 1984 36 1985 93 1986 45 1987 67 1988 141 1989 70 1990 180 1991 85 1992 104 1993 358 1994 84 1995 204 1996 133 1997 178 1998 368 1999 270 2000 324 2001 366 2002 448 2003 268 9998 do not know 0 Sysmiss 49 q64: at start-up: industrial or commercial registration 4957 1 0 2 0 no 1191 1 yes 3580 2 not required 186 Sysmiss 1 q65: reasons for not being registered 1173 3785 1 4 1 too expensive 288 2 tedious (time censoring / complicated) 305 3 useless 352 4 other 228 Sysmiss 3785 q66: at start-up: acquiring an official business license 4953 5 0 1 0 no 1173 1 yes 3780 Sysmiss 5 q67: reasons for not acquiring a license 1161 3797 1 4 1 too expensive 277 2 tedious (time censoring / complicated) 310 3 useless 310 4 other 264 Sysmiss 3797 q68: at start-up: acquiring a tax card 4956 2 0 1 0 no 1064 1 yes 3892 Sysmiss 2 q69: reasons for not acquiring a tax card 1053 3905 1 4 1 too expensive 283 2 tedious (time censoring / complicated) 267 3 useless 276 4 other 227 Sysmiss 3905 q70: at start-up: joining social insurance scheme 4955 3 0 1 0 no 1599 1 yes 3356 Sysmiss 3 q71: reasons for not joining social insurance scheme 1589 3369 1 4 1 too expensive 341 2 tedious (time censoring / complicated) 319 3 useless 646 4 other 283 Sysmiss 3369 q72: who was covered? 3334 1624 1 3 1 entrepreneur 2420 2 entrepreneur + some workers 523 3 entrepreneur + all workers 391 Sysmiss 1624 q73: at start-up: number of persons engaged 4955 3 0 45 2.105 1.929 q74: at start-up: area of economic unit 4935 23 1 700 20.085 33.577 q75: sources of initial capital 4953 5 1 8 1 inheritance 1004 2 own savings 3400 3 liquidation of assets 165 4 formal loan 112 5 informal loan 145 6 own remittances 28 7 others remittances 56 8 other 43 Sysmiss 5 q76: source of formal loan 112 4846 1 10 1 bank 72 2 development fund 25 3 credit firm 0 4 other domestic firm 0 5 foreign firm 0 6 domestic ngo 6 7 foreign ngo 1 8 other government agency - centeral 2 9 other government agency - local 1 10 other 5 Sysmiss 4846 q77a: interest rate of formal loan 112 4846 0 99 14.929 13.966 q77b: time period of formal loan 108 4850 1 120 33.926 21.549 q77c: currency of formal loan 112 4846 1 1 1 le 112 2 us$ 0 3 other 0 Sysmiss 4846 q77co: other currency 0 4958 Sysmiss 4958 q78: was collateral required? 111 4847 0 1 0 no 6 1 yes 105 Sysmiss 4847 q79: source of informal loan 145 4813 1 7 1 money lender 3 2 family and relatives 58 3 friends 31 4 neighbours 10 5 informal saving arrangements 12 6 business associates 21 7 business contractors 10 8 other 0 Sysmiss 4813 q80a: interest rate of informal loan 141 4817 0 25 3.468 6.763 q80b: time period of informal loan 134 4824 0 120 0 less than a month 37 1 4 3 2 4 3 5 2 6 6 10 6 12 18 15 2 16 1 18 6 24 11 25 1 30 2 36 13 48 2 60 12 72 2 84 1 100 2 120 1 Sysmiss 4824 q80c: currency of informal loan 145 4813 1 1 1 le 145 2 dollar 0 3 other 0 Sysmiss 4813 q80co: other currency 0 4958 Sysmiss 4958 q81: is collateral required for informal loan? 143 4815 0 1 0 no 109 1 yes 34 Sysmiss 4815 q82: business support service provided 255 4703 0 1 0 no 231 1 yes 24 Sysmiss 4703 q83: most important business support service provided 24 4934 1 11 1 setting-up enterprise 15 2 communication services 0 3 information (knowhow, technology) 0 4 financial 5 5 management 0 6 training of workers 0 7 production 1 8 promoting inter-firm linkages 0 9 domestic marketing 1 10 importing 1 11 exporting 1 12 dispute settlement 0 13 other 0 Sysmiss 4934 q84: at present: industrial or commercial registration 4958 0 0 2 0 no 1126 1 yes 3686 2 not required 146 q85: when registered 81 4877 1955 2003 1991.481 10.913 q86: reasons for registration 82 4876 1 5 1 become mandatory 61 2 procedures simplified 8 3 cost declined 0 4 become advantageous 12 5 other 1 Sysmiss 4876 q87: at present: acquiring an official business license 4957 1 0 1 0 no 1082 1 yes 3875 Sysmiss 1 q88: when got licensed 81 4877 1955 2003 1991.802 10.465 q89: reasons for acquiring an official business license 79 4879 1 5 1 become mandatory 59 2 procedures simplified 7 3 cost declined 0 4 become advantageous 12 5 other 1 Sysmiss 4879 q90: at present: acquiring a tax card 4957 1 0 1 0 no 974 1 yes 3983 Sysmiss 1 q91: when got a tax card 82 4876 1951 2003 1991.683 11.502 q92: reasons for acquiring a tax card 81 4877 1 4 1 become mandatory 70 2 procedures simplified 5 3 cost declined 1 4 become advantageous 5 5 other 0 Sysmiss 4877 q93: at present: joining social insurance scheme 4947 11 0 1 0 no 1489 1 yes 3458 Sysmiss 11 q94: when joined 67 4891 1960 2003 1990.224 10.074 q95: reasons for joining social insurance scheme 65 4893 1 4 1 become mandatory 42 2 procedures simplified 3 3 cost declined 0 4 become advantageous 20 5 other 0 Sysmiss 4893 q96: who is covered? 67 4891 1 3 1 entrepreneur 58 2 entrepreneur + some workers 8 3 entrepreneur + all workers 1 Sysmiss 4891 q97: having departments with responsible managers 4953 5 0 1 0 no 4749 1 yes 204 Sysmiss 5 q98: keeping regular accounts 4940 18 0 1 0 no 3043 1 yes 1897 Sysmiss 18 q99: using mechanical equipment 4952 6 1 3 1 never 3747 2 often 383 3 all the time 822 Sysmiss 6 q100: using electric equipment 4951 7 1 3 1 never 2357 2 often 838 3 all the time 1756 Sysmiss 7 q101: using electronic equipment 4936 22 1 3 1 never 4281 2 often 386 3 all the time 269 Sysmiss 22 q102: technology used in the production process 4936 22 1 3 1 traditional 3997 2 modern 807 3 up-to-date 132 Sysmiss 22 q103: using the latest technology in business 4951 7 0 1 0 no 4410 1 yes 541 Sysmiss 7 q104: reasons for not using the latest technology in busines 4375 583 1 5 1 too expensive 2450 2 difficult to obtain locally 49 3 service is not good 11 4 workers not qualified for it 143 5 other 1722 Sysmiss 583 q105: value of land 4958 0 0 10000000 8430.829 146454.685 q106: value of buildings 4956 2 0 20000000 8620.238 311753.252 q107: value of tools 4958 0 0 2000000 4161.828 38131.757 q108: value of other equipment 4958 0 0 120000 827.044 3513.432 q109: value of inventory 4958 0 0 4000000 6132.095 68394.975 q110: value of cash 4958 0 0 5000000 1978.331 72338.207 q111: total value of assets 4958 0 0 32100000 30147.25 502137.278 q112a: main customers: households 4957 1 0 1 0 no 232 1 yes 4725 Sysmiss 1 q112b: percent goes to households 4723 235 0 100 97.463 12.242 q113a: government 4947 11 0 1 0 no 4924 1 yes 23 Sysmiss 11 q113b: percent goes to government 23 4935 5 100 43.696 33.952 q114a: public enterprises 4948 10 0 1 0 no 4853 1 yes 95 Sysmiss 10 q114b: percent goes to government 95 4863 3 100 79.4 31.495 q115a: public enterprises 4948 10 0 1 0 no 4939 1 yes 9 Sysmiss 10 q115b: percent goes to domestic ngos 9 4949 1 100 32 33.937 q116a: foreign ngos 4948 10 0 0 0 no 4948 1 yes 0 Sysmiss 10 q116b: percent goes to foreign ngos 0 4958 Sysmiss 4958 q117a: co-operative 4948 10 0 1 0 no 4946 1 yes 2 Sysmiss 10 q117b: percent goes to co-operative 2 4956 1 25 13 16.971 q118a: home-based workers 4948 10 0 1 0 no 4927 1 yes 21 Sysmiss 10 q118b: percent goes to home-based workers 21 4937 1 100 36.714 34.42 q119a: micro private sector enterprises 4948 10 0 1 0 no 4617 1 yes 331 Sysmiss 10 q119b: percent goes to micro private sector enterprises 331 4627 1 100 65.423 30.02 q120a: small private sector enterprises 4948 10 0 1 0 no 4877 1 yes 71 Sysmiss 10 q120b: percent goes to small private sector enterprises 71 4887 4 100 40.31 21.385 q121a: large private sector enterprises 4948 10 0 1 0 no 4934 1 yes 14 Sysmiss 10 q121b: percent goes to large private sector enterprises 14 4944 5 100 34.643 25.379 q122a: foreign firms 4948 10 0 1 0 no 4942 1 yes 6 Sysmiss 10 q122b: percent goes to foreign firms 6 4952 5 100 39.167 35.555 q123a: other 4947 11 0 1 0 no 4942 1 yes 5 Sysmiss 11 q123b: percent goes to other 4 4954 30 100 77.5 32.016 q124a: scope of market: local market 4958 0 0 1 0 no 21 1 yes 4937 q124b: percent of share of local market 4936 22 0 100 98.338 9.581 q125a: scope of market: regional market 4948 10 0 1 0 no 4761 1 yes 187 Sysmiss 10 q125b: percent of share of regional market 187 4771 2 100 47.727 24.631 q126a: scope of market: national market 4948 10 0 1 0 no 4930 1 yes 18 Sysmiss 10 q125b: q125b: percent of share of regional market 18 4940 3 100 36.556 22.401 q126a: q126a: scope of market: national market 4947 11 0 1 0 no 4936 1 yes 11 Sysmiss 11 q127b: percent of share of international market 9 4949 10 100 57.778 32.702 q128: did you get credits during the last 12 months? 4958 0 0 1 0 no 4697 1 yes 261 q129: source of credit 260 4698 1 15 1 bank 93 2 development fund 24 3 credit firm 0 4 other domestic firm 1 5 foreign firm 0 6 domestic ngo 19 7 foreign ngo 0 8 government agency 1 9 family and relatives 19 10 friends 24 11 neighbours 12 12 business associates 61 13 business contractors 1 14 money lender 1 15 other 4 Sysmiss 4698 q130: satisfied with credit? 259 4699 0 1 0 no 121 1 yes 138 Sysmiss 4699 q131: did you have savings during the last 12 months? 4958 0 0 1 0 no 4683 1 yes 275 q132: where do you put savings? 274 4684 1 16 1 bank 129 2 development fund 0 3 post-office box ( p.o.b) 27 4 other domestic firm 0 5 foreign firm 0 6 domestic ngo 0 7 foreign ngo 0 8 government agency 0 9 family and relatives 3 10 friends 1 11 neighbours 5 12 business associates 1 13 business contractors 0 14 at home 104 15 informal saving arrangements 3 16 other 1 Sysmiss 4684 q133: satisfied with the place you put savings in? 268 4690 0 1 0 no 15 1 yes 253 Sysmiss 4690 q134: did you get leasing during the last 12 months? 4956 2 0 1 0 no 4913 1 yes 43 Sysmiss 2 q135: source of leasing 42 4916 1 10 1 bank 2 2 development fund 0 3 domestic firm 33 4 foreign firm 3 5 domestic ngo 1 6 foreign ngo 0 7 government agency 0 8 business associates 1 9 business contractors 0 10 other 2 Sysmiss 4916 q136: satisfied with leasing services? 41 4917 0 1 0 no 12 1 yes 29 Sysmiss 4917 q137: did you get venture capital during the last 12 months? 4957 1 0 1 0 no 4956 1 yes 1 Sysmiss 1 q138: source of venture capital 1 4957 3 3 1 bank 0 2 development fund 0 3 domestic firm 1 4 foreign firm 0 5 domestic ngo 0 6 foreign ngo 0 7 government agency 0 8 business associates 0 9 business contractors 0 10 other 0 Sysmiss 4957 q139: satisfied with information services? 0 4958 0 no 0 1 yes 0 Sysmiss 4958 4958 0 0 1 0 no 4948 1 yes 10 q141: source of information services 10 4948 3 9 1 bank 0 2 development fund 0 3 domestic firm 5 4 foreign firm 2 5 domestic ngo 0 6 foreign ngo 0 7 government agency 1 8 business associates 0 9 other 2 Sysmiss 4948 q142: satisfied with information services? 10 4948 1 1 0 no 0 1 yes 10 Sysmiss 4948 q143: did you get management services during the last 12 mon 4958 0 0 1 0 no 4955 1 yes 3 q144: source of management services 3 4955 3 3 1 bank 0 2 development fund 0 3 domestic firm 3 4 foreign firm 0 5 domestic ngo 0 6 foreign ngo 0 7 government agency 0 8 business associates 0 9 other 0 Sysmiss 4955 q145: satisfied with management services? 3 4955 0 1 0 no 1 1 yes 2 Sysmiss 4955 q146: got training of workers services in the last 12 months 4958 0 0 1 0 no 4955 1 yes 3 q147: source of training services 3 4955 5 7 1 bank 0 2 development fund 0 3 domestic firm 0 4 foreign firm 0 5 domestic ngo 2 6 foreign ngo 0 7 government agency 1 8 business associates 0 9 other 0 Sysmiss 4955 q148: satisfied with training services? 3 4955 1 1 0 no 0 1 yes 3 Sysmiss 4955 q149: did you get production services during the last 12 mon 4958 0 0 1 0 no 4956 1 yes 2 q150: source of production services 2 4956 1 3 1 bank 1 2 development fund 0 3 domestic firm 1 4 foreign firm 0 5 domestic ngo 0 6 foreign ngo 0 7 government agency 0 8 business associates 0 9 other 0 Sysmiss 4956 q151: satisfied with production services? 2 4956 1 1 0 no 0 1 yes 2 Sysmiss 4956 q152: did you get promoting inter-firm linkages services dur 4958 0 0 1 0 no 4957 1 yes 1 q153: source of promoting inter-firm linkages services 1 4957 3 3 1 bank 0 2 development fund 0 3 domestic firm 1 4 foreign firm 0 5 domestic ngo 0 6 foreign ngo 0 7 government agency 0 8 business associates 0 9 other 0 Sysmiss 4957 q154: satisfied with promoting inter-firm linkages services 1 4957 1 1 0 no 0 1 yes 1 Sysmiss 4957 q155: did you get domestic marketing services during the las 4958 0 0 1 0 no 4951 1 yes 7 q156: source of domestic marketing services 7 4951 3 9 1 bank 0 2 development fund 0 3 domestic firm 3 4 foreign firm 1 5 domestic ngo 1 6 foreign ngo 0 7 government agency 1 8 business associates 0 9 other 1 Sysmiss 4951 q157: satisfied with domestic marketing services? 7 4951 0 1 0 no 1 1 yes 6 Sysmiss 4951 q158: did you get exporting services during the last 12 mont 4958 0 0 1 0 no 4957 1 yes 1 q159: source of exporting services 1 4957 1 1 1 bank 1 2 development fund 0 3 domestic firm 0 4 foreign firm 0 5 domestic ngo 0 6 foreign ngo 0 7 government agency 0 8 business associates 0 9 other 0 Sysmiss 4957 q160: satisfied with exporting services? 1 4957 1 1 0 no 0 1 yes 1 Sysmiss 4957 q161: valu of own savings (excluding remittances) 4957 1 0 5000000 1420.923 71223.075 q162: value of liquidation of assets 4957 1 0 100000 73.877 1807.373 q163: value of suppliers 4957 1 0 180000 496.671 4617.695 q164: value of contractors 4957 1 0 50000 28.253 817.928 q165: value of formal loan 4957 1 0 400000 189.046 5845.087 q166: value of informal loan 4957 1 0 120000 88.263 2146.031 q167: value of own remittances and profits 4957 1 0 40000 13.066 591.111 q168: value of others remittances 4957 1 0 30000 10.46 445.727 q169: value of revenue & customers 4957 1 0 20000000 8424.005 289066.087 q170: value of other sources of working capital 4957 1 0 20000 20.866 422.064 q171: total value of working capital 4957 1 0 20000000 10765.431 310605.659 q171 categories: categories of total value of assets 4957 1 1 7 1 <1000 1950 2 1000 to < 5000 2156 3 5000 to < 10000 472 4 10000 to < 20000 220 5 20000 to < 50000 106 6 50000 to < 100000 25 7 100000 or more 28 Sysmiss 1 q172: source of formal loan 85 4873 1 10 1 bank 48 2 development fund 14 3 credit firm 0 4 other domestic firm 0 5 foreign firm 0 6 domestic ngo 18 7 foreign ngo 2 8 other government agency - centeral 0 9 other government agency - local 0 10 other 3 Sysmiss 4873 q173a: interest rate of formal loan 84 4874 0 50 15.202 7.881 q173b: time period of formal loan 83 4875 0 120 20.229 19.135 q173c: currency of formal loan 88 4870 1 1 1 le 88 2 us$ 0 3 other 0 Sysmiss 4870 q173co: other currency 0 4958 Sysmiss 4958 q174: was collateral required? 83 4875 0 1 0 no 13 1 yes 70 Sysmiss 4875 q175: source of informal loan 87 4871 1 8 1 lender 2 2 family and relatives 27 3 friends 23 4 neighbours 10 5 buseness associations 17 6 buseness contractors(trade) 1 7 informal saving arrangements 6 8 other 1 Sysmiss 4871 q176a: interest rate of informal loan 83 4875 0 25 4.072 7.439 q176b: time period of informal loan 83 4875 0 48 10.723 11.433 q176c: currency of informal loan 91 4867 1 1 1 le 91 2 us$ 0 3 other 0 Sysmiss 4867 q176co: other currency 0 4958 Sysmiss 4958 q177: was collateral required? 86 4872 0 1 0 no 65 1 yes 21 Sysmiss 4872 q178: business support service provided 86 4872 0 1 0 no 84 1 yes 2 Sysmiss 4872 q179: most important business support service provided 2 4956 1 9 1 setting-up enterprise 1 2 communication services 0 3 information (knowhow, technology) 0 4 financial 0 5 management 0 6 training of workers 0 7 production 0 8 promoting inter-firm linkages 0 9 domestic marketing 1 10 importing 0 11 exporting 0 12 dispute settlement 0 13 other 0 Sysmiss 4956 q180: do you have links with other enterprises 4956 2 0 1 0 no 4915 1 yes 41 Sysmiss 2 q181: number of linkages 39 4919 1 8 2.436 1.875 1 19 2 6 3 5 4 1 5 5 6 2 8 1 Sysmiss 4919 q182: type of linkages 41 0 A 5 B 6 BFG 1 C 1 CF 1 D 1 DE 1 E 1 EF 1 F 19 FX 2 X 2 q183: percentage of purchases 4 4954 10 90 43.75 34.97 q184: type of most important linked enterprises 5 4953 6 7 1 domestic ngo 0 2 foreign ngo 0 3 cut-of-operative 0 4 out workers 0 5 self-employed persons 0 6 micro private sector enterprises 4 7 small private sector enterprises 1 8 large private sector enterprises 0 9 foreign trading firms 0 10 foreign production firms 0 11 other 0 Sysmiss 4953 q185: subject to a contract 5 4953 0 0 0 no 5 1 yes 0 Sysmiss 4953 q186: activity of most important linked enterprises 5 4953 520 7499 4909.6 3559.47 q187: is this enterprise in the same cluster-estate? 5 4953 0 1 0 no 2 1 yes 3 Sysmiss 4953 q188: percentage of turnover 5 4953 10 100 54 36.64 q189: type of most important linked enterprises 5 4953 1 7 1 domestic ngo 1 2 foreign ngo 0 3 cut-of-operative 0 4 out workers 0 5 self-employed persons 1 6 micro private sector enterprises 2 7 small private sector enterprises 1 8 large private sector enterprises 0 9 foreign trading firms 0 10 foreign production firms 0 11 other 0 Sysmiss 4953 q190: subject to a contract 5 4953 0 1 0 no 4 1 yes 1 Sysmiss 4953 q191: percentage of subcontracted goods to your production 5 4953 20 100 54 33.053 q192: activity of most important linked enterprises 4 4954 2022 3611 3213.75 794.5 q193: is this enterprise in the same cluster-estate? 5 4953 0 1 0 no 1 1 yes 4 Sysmiss 4953 q194a: access of water 4955 3 0 1 0 no 2945 1 yes 2010 Sysmiss 3 q194b: adequacy of water 1995 2963 0 2 0 bad 54 1 accepted 429 2 good 1512 Sysmiss 2963 q195a: access of electricity 4957 1 0 1 0 no 333 1 yes 4624 Sysmiss 1 q195b: adequacy of electricity 4578 380 0 2 0 bad 82 1 accepted 1025 2 good 3471 Sysmiss 380 q196a: access of telephone 4947 11 0 1 0 no 3565 1 yes 1382 Sysmiss 11 q196b: adequacy of telephone 1364 3594 0 2 0 bad 12 1 accepted 247 2 good 1105 Sysmiss 3594 q197a: access of sewage 4946 12 0 1 0 no 3373 1 yes 1573 Sysmiss 12 q197b: adequacy of sewage 1556 3402 0 2 0 bad 56 1 accepted 446 2 good 1054 Sysmiss 3402 q198a: access of roads 4954 4 0 1 0 no 534 1 yes 4420 Sysmiss 4 q198b: adequacy of roads 4395 563 0 2 0 bad 471 1 accepted 1622 2 good 2302 Sysmiss 563 q199a: access of transportation for warkers 4951 7 0 1 0 no 4786 1 yes 165 Sysmiss 7 q199b: adequacy of transportation for warkers 165 4793 0 2 0 bad 25 1 accepted 65 2 good 75 Sysmiss 4793 q200a: access of transportation for goods 4947 11 0 1 0 no 4701 1 yes 246 Sysmiss 11 q200b: adequacy of transportation for goods 244 4714 0 2 0 bad 33 1 accepted 116 2 good 95 Sysmiss 4714 q201a: access of day care center 4935 23 0 1 0 no 4925 1 yes 10 Sysmiss 23 q201b: adequacy of day care center 9 4949 0 2 0 bad 1 1 accepted 5 2 good 3 Sysmiss 4949 q202: severity of securing initial capital 4946 12 0 3 0 easy 952 1 moderate 790 2 difficult 3202 3 not applicable 2 Sysmiss 12 q203: severity of licensing and registration procedures 4946 12 0 3 0 easy 1043 1 moderate 803 2 difficult 3041 3 not applicable 59 Sysmiss 12 q204: severity of labour law 4941 17 0 3 0 easy 1316 1 moderate 1031 2 difficult 1603 3 not applicable 991 Sysmiss 17 q205: of labour inspection 4934 24 0 3 0 easy 1521 1 moderate 1125 2 difficult 2225 3 not applicable 63 Sysmiss 24 q206: severity of labour cost 4938 20 0 3 0 easy 1156 1 moderate 1266 2 difficult 1653 3 not applicable 863 Sysmiss 20 q207: severity of meeting environmental requirements 4927 31 0 3 0 easy 2435 1 moderate 1229 2 difficult 1156 3 not applicable 107 Sysmiss 31 q208: severity of finding qualified workers 4947 11 0 3 0 easy 1818 1 moderate 933 2 difficult 1424 3 not applicable 772 Sysmiss 11 q209: severity of retaining qualified workers 4946 12 0 3 0 easy 1635 1 moderate 878 2 difficult 1652 3 not applicable 781 Sysmiss 12 q210: severity of raw materials availability 4931 27 0 3 0 easy 2287 1 moderate 1400 2 difficult 1233 3 not applicable 11 Sysmiss 27 q211: severity of raw materials cost 4911 47 0 3 0 easy 1372 1 moderate 1215 2 difficult 2303 3 not applicable 21 Sysmiss 47 q212a: percent of unutilised capacity 3300 1658 0 100 14.234 25.933 q212: severity of unutilised capacity 4893 65 0 3 0 easy 2415 1 moderate 1137 2 difficult 1325 3 not applicable 16 Sysmiss 65 q213: severity of low demand for output 4917 41 0 3 0 easy 744 1 moderate 1442 2 difficult 2719 3 not applicable 12 Sysmiss 41 q214: severity of strong domestic competition from micro ent 4927 31 0 3 0 easy 1193 1 moderate 819 2 difficult 2906 3 not applicable 9 Sysmiss 31 q215: severity of strong domestic competition from small ent 4924 34 0 3 0 easy 1304 1 moderate 602 2 difficult 3000 3 not applicable 18 Sysmiss 34 q216: severity of strong domestic competition from large ent 4924 34 0 3 0 easy 1327 1 moderate 506 2 difficult 3051 3 not applicable 40 Sysmiss 34 q217: severity of strong competition from imports 4932 26 0 3 0 easy 465 1 moderate 277 2 difficult 1411 3 not applicable 2779 Sysmiss 26 q218: severity of financial services 4911 47 0 3 0 easy 955 1 moderate 852 2 difficult 3043 3 not applicable 61 Sysmiss 47 q219: severity of other business support services 4913 45 0 3 0 easy 916 1 moderate 955 2 difficult 2994 3 not applicable 48 Sysmiss 45 q220: severity of profitability 4932 26 0 3 0 easy 302 1 moderate 738 2 difficult 3869 3 not applicable 23 Sysmiss 26 q221: severity of tax rates 4317 641 0 2 0 easy 294 1 moderate 623 2 difficult 3400 3 not applicable 0 Sysmiss 641 q222: severity of custom duties 4921 37 0 3 0 easy 38 1 moderate 56 2 difficult 289 3 not applicable 4538 Sysmiss 37 q223: severity of tax administration 4943 15 0 3 0 easy 477 1 moderate 499 2 difficult 3223 3 not applicable 744 Sysmiss 15 q224: severity of other 4937 21 0 3 0 easy 4 1 moderate 0 2 difficult 22 3 not applicable 4911 Sysmiss 21 q225: financial service most needed 4933 25 1 5 1 credit 2205 2 savings 2129 3 leasing 70 4 venture capital 36 5 other 493 Sysmiss 25 q226: other business support services 4912 46 1 9 1 communication services 84 2 information (knowhow, technology) 170 3 training of workers 178 4 production 416 5 promoting inter-firm linkages 93 6 domestic marketing 3316 7 importing 15 8 exporting 22 9 other 618 Sysmiss 46 q227a: the most important suggestions to improve business 4707 251 0 98 0 908 1 increase of goods and apparatus 306 2 enlarge place 313 3 reducing prices /raw materials prices 151 4 high quality goods 87 5 easy credits 1491 6 contracts with traders 4 7 availability of apparatus/luxuries 7 8 354 9 work in better work enviroment with more assemblage 11 10 better marketing/more propaganda 387 11 availability of raw materials 61 12 labor availability/training 46 13 clean water supply and sewerage 1 14 reduce taxes 118 15 limit routine in governmental offices 15 16 easing licenses 17 17 agreements with government 12 18 enterprise improvement and renewing 210 19 improving utilities 9 20 increase residants in the area 3 21 easing registeration procedures 2 22 evaporation appaatus 1 23 hair creaming hair dryer 0 24 private shop 11 25 propaganda 2 26 faithfulness 6 27 road pavingl/ improving utelities 5 28 better management 2 29 more care from chamber of commerce 1 30 control wholesalers 7 31 change activity 7 32 veterinary care 1 33 improve eyptian products quality 1 34 adding more products 8 35 permit import and export 23 36 availability of transpotation means 1 37 more communications 6 38 increase production and benefits 76 39 better management 0 40 existence of experienced engineers 1 41 more branches to the enterprise 17 42 help from specialized organizationslstakeholders 2 43 cleaning environment 3 44 training courses and more awareness 1 45 leasing 1 46 residence for workers close to work 0 47 reduce shop rent 2 48 no more selling on credit/tick 0 49 reduce telephone bills and other utelities 2 50 increase supply share to bakeries 4 51 limit importatation 2 98 1 Sysmiss 251 q227b: the most important suggestions to improve business 2356 2602 0 98 0 393 1 increase of goods and apparatus 212 2 enlarge place 146 3 reducing prices /raw materials prices 141 4 high quality goods 74 5 easy credits 271 6 contracts with traders 5 7 availability of apparatus/luxuries 8 8 221 9 work in better work enviroment with more assemblage 10 10 better marketing/more propaganda 411 11 availability of raw materials 38 12 labor availability/training 61 13 clean water supply and sewerage 3 14 reduce taxes 63 15 limit routine in governmental offices 20 16 easing licenses 13 17 agreements with government 7 18 enterprise improvement and renewing 127 19 improving utilities 7 20 increase residants in the area 2 21 easing registeration procedures 7 22 evaporation appaatus 1 23 hair creaming hair dryer 1 24 private shop 1 25 propaganda 1 26 faithfulness 2 27 road pavingl/ improving utelities 7 28 better management 3 29 more care from chamber of commerce 0 30 control wholesalers 2 31 change activity 3 32 veterinary care 1 33 improve eyptian products quality 1 34 adding more products 2 35 permit import and export 9 36 availability of transpotation means 1 37 more communications 9 38 increase production and benefits 58 39 better management 1 40 existence of experienced engineers 0 41 more branches to the enterprise 5 42 help from specialized organizationslstakeholders 3 43 cleaning environment 0 44 training courses and more awareness 1 45 leasing 0 46 residence for workers close to work 1 47 reduce shop rent 0 48 no more selling on credit/tick 0 49 reduce telephone bills and other utelities 0 50 increase supply share to bakeries 0 51 limit importatation 0 55 1 84 1 98 1 Sysmiss 2602 q227c: the most important suggestions to improve business 1078 3880 0 98 0 547 1 increase of goods and apparatus 45 2 enlarge place 34 3 reducing prices /raw materials prices 70 4 high quality goods 29 5 easy credits 63 6 contracts with traders 3 7 availability of apparatus/luxuries 1 8 48 9 work in better work enviroment with more assemblage 9 10 better marketing/more propaganda 89 11 availability of raw materials 8 12 labor availability/training 39 13 clean water supply and sewerage 1 14 reduce taxes 11 15 limit routine in governmental offices 5 16 easing licenses 8 17 agreements with government 0 18 enterprise improvement and renewing 30 19 improving utilities 0 20 increase residants in the area 1 21 easing registeration procedures 6 22 evaporation appaatus 0 23 hair creaming hair dryer 0 24 private shop 1 25 propaganda 4 26 faithfulness 1 27 road pavingl/ improving utelities 1 28 better management 0 29 more care from chamber of commerce 0 30 control wholesalers 1 31 change activity 0 32 veterinary care 0 33 improve eyptian products quality 4 34 adding more products 0 35 permit import and export 4 36 availability of transpotation means 0 37 more communications 2 38 increase production and benefits 7 39 better management 0 40 existence of experienced engineers 3 41 more branches to the enterprise 0 42 help from specialized organizationslstakeholders 2 43 cleaning environment 0 44 training courses and more awareness 0 45 leasing 0 46 residence for workers close to work 0 47 reduce shop rent 0 48 no more selling on credit/tick 0 49 reduce telephone bills and other utelities 0 50 increase supply share to bakeries 0 51 limit importatation 0 98 1 Sysmiss 3880 q228: know any woman entrepreneur? 4944 14 0 1 0 no 3700 1 yes 1244 Sysmiss 14 q229: do women entrepreneur have certain advantages in this 1223 3735 0 1 0 no 767 1 yes 456 Sysmiss 3735 q230: the most important advantage 447 4511 1 12 1 treating customers well 384 2 place cleaning and preparing 5 4 marketing ability 21 5 accept low salary 3 6 patience 21 7 good appearance 3 8 dress making for women 1 9 language 0 10 good understanding / firm/strong personality and persuasion 5 11 more time to work 3 12 no responsibility on her 1 Sysmiss 4511 q231: do women entrepreneurs face special problems? 1222 3736 0 1 0 no 855 1 yes 367 Sysmiss 3736 q232: problems in setting-up enterprise? 366 4592 0 1 0 no 209 1 yes 157 Sysmiss 4592 q233: problems in hiring workers? 366 4592 0 1 0 no 203 1 yes 163 Sysmiss 4592 q234: problems in managing business? 366 4592 0 1 0 no 215 1 yes 151 Sysmiss 4592 q235: problems in marketing? 366 4592 0 1 0 no 221 1 yes 145 Sysmiss 4592 q236: problems in benefiting from financial services? 366 4592 0 1 0 no 272 1 yes 94 Sysmiss 4592 q237: problems in benefiting from other business services? 365 4593 0 1 0 no 274 1 yes 91 Sysmiss 4593 q238: problems in securing contracts? 366 4592 0 1 0 no 274 1 yes 92 Sysmiss 4592 q239: problems in joining business associations? 366 4592 0 1 0 no 271 1 yes 95 Sysmiss 4592 q240: personal harassment? 366 4592 0 1 0 no 59 1 yes 307 Sysmiss 4592 q241: other 337 4621 0 1 0 no 329 1 yes 8 Sysmiss 4621 q242: needs permission from household to work? 464 4494 0 1 0 no 161 1 yes 303 Sysmiss 4494 q243: needs permission from who? 303 4655 1 7 1 husband 153 2 father 91 3 brother 12 4 father in law 0 5 mother 21 6 mother in law 1 7 other 25 Sysmiss 4655 q244: needs permission from community to work? 464 4494 0 1 0 no 352 1 yes 112 Sysmiss 4494 q245: needs permission from whom? 111 4847 1 3 1 men 5 2 women 20 3 both 86 Sysmiss 4847 q246: the worst constraints on business come from 456 4502 1 2 1 family 313 2 comunity 143 Sysmiss 4502 q247: suffer from conflicts between home and work duties? 462 4496 0 1 0 no 363 1 yes 99 Sysmiss 4496 q248: feels empowered by earnings? 462 4496 0 1 0 no 106 1 yes 356 Sysmiss 4496 q249a: number of persons engaged at interview time? 4958 0 1 40 2.165 1.895 q249b: number of persons engaged one year ago 4225 733 0 40 2.17 1.976 q250a: area of economic unit at interview time 4897 61 1 705 20.231 34.897 q250b: area of economic unit one year ago 4171 787 1 945 21.074 40.183 q251a: value of assets at interview time 4958 0 0 32100000 30143.423 502137.434 q251b: value of assets one year ago 4226 732 0 32100000 32551.827 543045.234 q252a: output per month at interview time 4955 3 0 10000000 4669.914 145590.177 q252b: output per month one year ago 4224 734 0 10000000 5375.119 157638.545 q253a: wage bill per month at interview time 4956 2 0 138031 486.509 2624.652 q253b: wage bill per month one year ago 4225 733 0 138031 511.299 2850.046 q254a: raw materials and intermediate goods c at int 4955 3 0 10000000 3291.71 142984.302 q254b: raw materials and intermediate goods per month one ye 4224 734 0 10000000 3950.138 155227.062 q255a: energy consumption per month at interview time 4956 2 0 5600 52.319 180.218 q255b: energy consumption per month one year ago 4225 733 0 5000 49.659 156.717 q256a: rent per month at interview time 4956 2 0 8500 109.779 251.602 q256b: rent per month one year ago 4225 733 0 8500 100.596 246.493 q257a: value added taxes per month at interview time 4956 2 0 80000 50.06 1196.926 q257b: value added taxes per month one year ago 4225 733 0 80000 50.133 1273.778 q258a: cost of financial services per month at interview tim 4956 2 0 2210 14.937 103.922 q258b: cost of financial services per month one year ago 4225 733 0 2210 13.78 105.604 q259a: other expenditures per month at interview time 4956 2 0 5100 20.269 106.832 q259b: other expenditures per month one year ago 4225 733 0 5100 21.116 114.442 q260a: total other expenditures per month at interview time 4956 2 0 81050 195.045 1252.383 q260b: total other expenditures per month one year ago 4225 733 0 81050 185.624 1325.07 q261a: total expenditures per month at interview time 4955 3 0 10016100 4025.717 143294.676 q261b: total expenditures per month one year ago 4224 734 0 10015600 4696.88 155554.481 q262a: sales-revenues per month at interview time 4953 5 0 3181376 3196.035 51535.532 q262b: sales revenues per month one year ago 4223 735 0 3181376 3596.83 55795.248 q263a: exports per month at interview time 4956 2 0 250000 55.777 3553.817 q263b: exports per month one year ago 4225 733 0 250000 66.528 3855.589 q264a: added new products or goods preceding year at intervi 4956 2 0 1 0 no 4857 1 yes 99 Sysmiss 2 q264b: added new products or goods preceding year one year a 4224 734 0 1 0 no 4179 1 yes 45 Sysmiss 734 q265a: value of new assets acquired during preceding year at 4917 41 0 54200 23.982 794.7 q265b: value of new assets acquired during preceding year on 4195 763 0 6000 7.366 154.075 q266: intends to stay in present activity? 4953 5 0 2 0 no 281 1 yes 4373 2 do not know 299 Sysmiss 5 q267: employment 4674 284 0 8 0 contraction 100 1 stable 3822 2 growth 708 8 do not know 44 Sysmiss 284 q268: area of economic unit 4674 284 0 8 0 contraction 11 1 stable 4204 2 growth 432 8 do not know 27 Sysmiss 284 q269: output 4671 287 0 8 0 contraction 158 1 stable 2721 2 growth 1623 8 do not know 169 Sysmiss 287 q270: assets 4673 285 0 8 0 contraction 72 1 stable 3540 2 growth 958 8 do not know 103 Sysmiss 285 q271: acquisition of modern technology 4674 284 0 8 0 contraction 35 1 stable 2971 2 growth 928 8 do not know 740 Sysmiss 284 q272: revenues 4673 285 0 8 0 contraction 460 1 stable 1811 2 growth 1807 8 do not know 595 Sysmiss 285 q273: domestic sales 4673 285 0 8 0 contraction 402 1 stable 2086 2 growth 1582 8 do not know 603 Sysmiss 285 q274: exports 4669 289 0 8 0 contraction 12 1 stable 2103 2 growth 74 8 do not know 2480 Sysmiss 289 q275: adding new products 4671 287 0 8 0 contraction 38 1 stable 2286 2 growth 1234 8 do not know 1113 Sysmiss 287 q276a: female workers <15 4957 1 0 6 0.00625 0.132 0 4938 1 15 2 1 4 2 6 1 Sysmiss 1 q276b: male workers <15 4957 1 0 5 0.0531 0.273 0 4740 1 181 2 29 3 5 4 1 5 1 Sysmiss 1 q277a: female workers 15 to 24 4957 1 0 7 0.123 0.454 0 4505 1 340 2 87 3 13 4 5 5 5 6 1 7 1 Sysmiss 1 q277b: male workers 15 to 24 4957 1 0 27 0.687 1.136 q278a: female workers 25 to 59 4957 1 0 6 0.0972 0.338 0 4511 1 426 2 12 3 4 4 1 5 2 6 1 Sysmiss 1 q278b: male workers 25 to 59 4957 1 0 32 1.059 1.239 q279a: female workers 60 years or more 4957 1 0 1 0.0192 0.137 0 4862 1 95 Sysmiss 1 q279b: male workers 60 years or more 4957 1 0 3 0.12 0.336 0 4376 1 566 2 14 3 1 Sysmiss 1 q280a: total female workers 4957 1 0 15 0.246 0.654 0 4040 1 721 2 147 3 30 4 6 5 7 6 2 7 1 10 1 11 1 15 1 Sysmiss 1 q280b: total male workers 4957 1 0 32 1.919 1.79 q281a: permanent female workers 4957 1 0 15 0.23 0.631 0 4088 1 696 2 129 3 28 4 5 5 5 6 2 7 1 10 1 11 1 15 1 Sysmiss 1 q281b: permanent male workers 4957 1 0 32 1.818 1.709 q282a: temporary female workers 4957 1 0 2 0.00605 0.0896 0 4932 1 20 2 5 Sysmiss 1 q282b: temporary male workers 4957 1 0 29 0.0331 0.469 q283a: casual female workers 4957 1 0 3 0.0103 0.116 0 4913 1 38 2 5 3 1 Sysmiss 1 q283b: casual male workers 4957 1 0 4 0.0674 0.328 0 4708 1 185 2 48 3 11 4 5 Sysmiss 1 q283at: total female workers 4957 1 0 15 0.246 0.654 0 4040 1 721 2 147 3 30 4 6 5 7 6 2 7 1 10 1 11 1 15 1 Sysmiss 1 q283bt: total male workers 4957 1 0 32 1.919 1.79 q284a: national female workers 4957 1 0 15 0.246 0.654 0 4040 1 721 2 147 3 30 4 6 5 7 6 2 7 1 10 1 11 1 15 1 Sysmiss 1 q284b: national male workers 4957 1 0 32 1.918 1.79 q285a: non-national female workers 4957 1 0 0 0 0 0 4957 Sysmiss 1 q285b: non-national male workers 4957 1 0 2 0.00121 0.0402 0 4952 1 4 2 1 Sysmiss 1 q285at: total female workers 4957 1 0 15 0.246 0.654 0 4040 1 721 2 147 3 30 4 6 5 7 6 2 7 1 10 1 11 1 15 1 Sysmiss 1 q285bt: total male workers 4957 1 0 32 1.919 1.79 q286a: number of skilled female workers 917 4041 0 15 1.143 0.878 0 93 1 670 2 119 3 25 4 3 5 3 6 1 7 1 10 1 15 1 Sysmiss 4041 q286b: average wage skilled female worker 822 4136 0 800 100.265 112.323 q286c: time period of paying skilled female workers 822 4136 0 30 19.667 13.645 q286d: average wage skilled female worker per month 822 4136 0 3000 199.982 181.551 q287a: number of semi-skilled female workers 917 4041 0 150 0.287 4.966 q287b: average wage semi-skilled female worker 93 4865 0 350 94.269 94.997 q287c: time period of paying semi-skilled female workers 93 4865 0 30 20.312 13.513 q287d: average wage semi-skilled female worker per month 93 4865 0 350 145.806 80.414 q288a: number of unskilled female workers 917 4041 0 6 0.0545 0.298 0 874 1 40 2 2 6 1 Sysmiss 4041 q288b: average wage unskilled female worker 43 4915 0 200 44.186 58.324 q288c: time period of paying unskilled female workers 43 4915 0 30 12.721 14.195 q288d: average wage unskilled female worker per month 43 4915 0 300 119.535 58.226 q289a: number of female apprentices 917 4041 0 2 0.00872 0.104 0 910 1 6 2 1 Sysmiss 4041 q289b: average wage female worker apprentices 7 4951 3 150 53.286 53.981 q289c: time period of paying female apprentices 7 4951 1 30 18.429 14.57 q289d: average wage female apprentices per month 7 4951 55 150 116.429 36.823 q290a: total female workers 917 4041 1 15 1.329 0.933 1 721 2 147 3 30 4 6 5 7 6 2 7 1 10 1 11 1 15 1 Sysmiss 4041 q291a: number of skilled male workers 4644 314 0 32 1.719 1.433 q291b: average wage skilled male worker 4622 336 0 10000 182.589 240.446 q291c: time period of paying skilled male workers 4622 336 0 60 22.483 12.607 q291d: average wage skilled male worker per month 4624 334 0 14000 270.379 306.299 q292a: number of semi-skilled male workers 4643 315 0 13 0.228 0.678 0 3911 1 528 2 151 3 24 4 14 5 8 6 2 7 2 11 1 12 1 13 1 Sysmiss 315 q292b: average wage semi-skilled male worker 729 4229 0 1000 142.615 130.01 q292c: time period of paying semi-skilled male workers 730 4228 0 40 21.441 13.102 q292d: average wage semi-skilled male worker per month 731 4227 0 6600 223.073 285.101 q293a: number of unskilled male workers 4643 315 0 14 0.047 0.362 0 4500 1 105 2 26 3 4 4 2 5 3 6 2 14 1 Sysmiss 315 q293b: average wage unskilled male worker 143 4815 0 500 113.49 106.553 q293c: time period of paying unskilled male workers 143 4815 0 30 19.72 13.868 q293d: average wage unskilled male worker per month 143 4815 0 4500 216.818 384.624 q294a: number of male apprentices 4643 315 0 4 0.0538 0.271 0 4430 1 188 2 16 3 6 4 3 Sysmiss 315 q294b: average wage of male worker apprentices 213 4745 0 300 52.164 63.424 q294c: time period of paying male apprentices 213 4745 0 60 13.869 14.457 q294d: average wage male apprentices per month 213 4745 0 900 130.235 91.057 q295a: total male workers 4644 314 1 32 2.048 1.776 q296a: criterion of employing skilled workers 4871 87 1 10 1 age 12 2 gender 63 3 skill 2562 4 ethics 1505 5 family 460 6 relatives 110 7 neighbours 14 8 friends 10 9 colleagues 43 10 other 92 Sysmiss 87 q296b: criterion of employing unskilled workers 4869 89 1 9 1 age 96 2 gender 107 3 ethics 3212 4 family 791 5 relatives 329 6 neighbours 67 7 friends 16 8 colleagues 65 9 other 186 Sysmiss 89 q297: number of workers related to entrepreneur 4957 1 0 12 1.375 0.781 0 105 1 3376 2 1147 3 242 4 58 5 13 6 9 7 2 8 1 10 1 11 1 12 2 Sysmiss 1 q298: number of workers unrelated to entrepreneur 4957 1 0 39 0.79 1.785 q299: total number of workers 4957 1 1 40 2.165 1.895 q300: number of workers who had technical or vocational educ 4957 1 0 18 0.132 0.639 0 4566 1 257 2 82 3 33 4 7 5 5 7 2 10 1 11 2 15 1 18 1 Sysmiss 1 q301: number of workers who did not have technical education 4957 1 0 40 2.033 1.867 q301a: total number of workers 4957 1 1 40 2.165 1.895 q302: number of workers who have written contracts 4957 1 0 40 1.092 1.387 q303: number of workers who do not have written contracts 4957 1 0 31 1.072 1.562 q303a: total number of workers 4957 1 1 40 2.165 1.895 q304: number of workers who have social security 4957 1 0 40 1.14 1.728 q305: number of workers who do not have social security 4957 1 0 29 1.025 1.221 q305a: total number of workers 4957 1 1 40 2.165 1.895 q306: number of workers who have health care provisions 4957 1 0 40 0.227 1.24 q307: number of workers who do not have health care provisio 4957 1 0 32 1.938 1.606 q307a: total number of workers 4957 1 1 40 2.165 1.895 q308: number of workers who have paid vacations 4957 1 0 35 1.098 1.398 q309: number of workers who did not have paid vacations 4957 1 0 40 1.067 1.733 q309a: total number of workers 4957 1 1 40 2.165 1.895 q310a: is food available? 4905 53 0 1 0 no 4268 1 yes 637 Sysmiss 53 q310b: costs of food during last month 630 4328 0 10000 150.697 702.208 q311a: is lodging available? 4905 53 0 1 0 no 4887 1 yes 18 Sysmiss 53 q311b: costs of lodging during last month 16 4942 0 900 185.625 249.692 q312a: is transportation available? 4905 53 0 1 0 no 4878 1 yes 27 Sysmiss 53 q312b: costs of transportation during last month 26 4932 5 3600 444.038 811.218 q313a: is clothes available? 4905 53 0 1 0 no 4898 1 yes 7 Sysmiss 53 q313b: costs of clothes during last month 6 4952 15 500 190.833 239.842 q314a: is allowance for children education available? 4902 56 0 1 0 no 4900 1 yes 2 Sysmiss 56 q314b: costs of allowance for children education during last 1 4957 100 100 100 100 1 Sysmiss 4957 q315a: is cash payments on special occasions available? 4905 53 0 1 0 no 4379 1 yes 526 Sysmiss 53 q315b: costs of cash payments on special occasions during la 493 4465 0 10000 121.787 516.522 q316a: are other benefits available? 4860 98 0 1 0 no 4830 1 yes 30 Sysmiss 98 q316b: costs of other benefits during last month 27 4931 20 11000 571.481 2095.137 q317: is work environment safe? 4955 3 0 1 0 no 374 1 yes 4581 Sysmiss 3 q318: is work environment comfortable? 4942 16 0 1 0 no 665 1 yes 4277 Sysmiss 16 q319: accidents likely to happen? 4945 13 0 1 0 no 4323 1 yes 622 Sysmiss 13 q320: how often accidents happen? 614 4344 1 3 1 daily 11 2 once a week 50 3 less often 553 Sysmiss 4344 q321: accidents lead to injury? 599 4359 0 1 0 no 291 1 yes 308 Sysmiss 4359 q322: first aid arrangements are adequate? 4951 7 0 1 0 no 2776 1 yes 2175 Sysmiss 7 h3: serial 24471 0 1 23 3.489 2.293 h4: relation to household head 24471 0 0 household head 4951 1 husband/wife 4192 2 son/daughter 12818 3 son/daughter in law 215 4 grandchild 425 5 brother/sister 885 6 brother/sister in law 68 7 father/mother 667 8 other relatives 220 9 visitor/servant 30 h5: age 24449 22 0 95 26.741 17.777 h6: gender 24443 28 0 male 13114 1 female 11329 Sysmiss 28 h7: number of grades completed 21915 2556 0 25 7.312 5.526 h8: labour frce participation during preceding week 21818 2653 1 employed 7723 2 unemployed 1525 3 student (out of labour force) 6550 4 housewife (out of labour force) 5035 5 did not desire to work (out of labour force) 198 6 disabled (out of labour force) 579 7 military service (out of labour force) 208 Sysmiss 2653 h9: has done any of the following activities 14094 10377 0 no 13859 1 yes 235 Sysmiss 10377 h9a: activity 226 24245 1 produced a commodity and sold it directly 3 2 produced a commodity for sale in a shop or enterprise 0 3 purchased goods and resold them 25 4 rendered some service to others for pay 7 5 done crafts work for others for pay 5 6 helped in a household enterprise 186 Sysmiss 24245 h10: status in employment 7652 16819 1 employee 4694 2 employer 83 3 own-account 1046 4 member of co-operative 1829 5 family worker 0 6 other 0 Sysmiss 16819 h11: previously attempted to set up economic unit that close 17591 6880 0 no 17330 1 yes 261 Sysmiss 6880 h12: presently principal owner or manager of an enterprise? 17590 6881 0 no 12108 1 yes 5482 Sysmiss 6881 x3: serial 24471 0 1 23 3.489 2.293 h13: in sampling area of the enterprise? 5429 19042 0 no 166 1 yes 5263 Sysmiss 19042 h14: main activity 5460 19011 111 9309 5167.692 1480.906 h15:number of persons engaged 5440 19031 0 101 2.199 2.344 governorate 24471 0 1 cairo 5121 2 giza 4121 3 alexandria 1978 4 damitta 2077 5 gharbia 2218 6 fayoum 1146 7 assuit 5465 8 sohag 2345 markaz code 24471 0 1 51 5.578 4.642 shiakha/village 24471 0 101 816 426.46 251.423 urban/rural 24471 0 1 urban 21381 2 rural 3090 questionnaire number 24471 0 1 227 37.233 37.385 questionnaire id 24471 0 101001 816007 426497.37 251422.785 result of interview 24471 0 1 completed 24471 2 owner/manager not present 0 3 refuse 0 4 address not found 0 5 temporarly closed 0 6 permenantly closed 0 7 sampling error 0 interviewer code 24465 6 2 73 40.153 18.335 supervisor code 24457 14 0 90 36.952 18.622 office editor 24463 8 0 65 3.989 2.949 keyer 24471 0 1 15 6.283 2.726 day of interview 24346 125 1 31 14.481 7.869 month of interview 24346 125 3 5 4.008 0.19 year of interview 24471 0 2003 2003 2003 0 enterprise weight 24471 0 50640 7663663 533840.656 473725.822 hh weight 24471 0 0.145 17.211 1.084 2.335 ever owned an enterprise 17565 6906 0 never 12050 1 old owner 52 2 recent owner 5254 3 old & recent 209 Sysmiss 6906 years of education categories 21915 2556 0 not educated 5304 1 1 to 6 years 4539 2 7 to 9 years 2792 3 10 to 12 years 6211 4 13 to 16 years 2972 5 17 years or more 97 Sysmiss 2556 24471 0 1 99 4.274 3.76 24471 0 1 999 7.348 39.704 24471 0 1 999 426.233 252.575 urban/rural 24437 34 1 urban 21251 2 rural 3186 Sysmiss 34 24471 0 1 227 37.233 37.385 24471 0 101001 816007 426513.92 251401.787 number of members 24471 0 1 23 5.977 2.664 24464 7 0 90 2.397 2.845 hq4: serial number of member in household roster 261 0 1 9 1.483 1.09 1 200 2 28 3 15 4 9 5 7 6 1 9 1 hq5: relation to household head 261 0 0 9 0 household head 185 1 husband/wife 32 2 son/daughter 32 3 son/daughter in law 1 4 grandchild 0 5 brother/sister 6 6 brother/sister in law 0 7 father/mother 1 8 other relatives 0 9 visitor/servant 4 hq6: main activity 246 15 111 9302 4725.309 1872.392 hq7: year of start 258 3 1955 2003 1993.426 8.721 hq8: year of closing down 256 5 1963 2003 1996.367 6.442 hq9: reason for closing down 253 8 1 4 1 finance 79 2 management 24 3 marketing 100 4 other 50 Sysmiss 8 hq10: number of workers when closed down 259 2 1 51 2.529 4.759 governorate 261 0 1 8 1 cairo 64 2 giza 24 3 alexandria 48 4 damitta 39 5 gharbia 31 6 fayoum 15 7 assuit 33 8 sohag 7 markaz code 261 0 1 51 5.954 5.86 shiakha/village 261 0 101 804 369.506 210.014 urban/rural 261 0 1 2 1 urban 229 2 rural 32 questionnaire number 261 0 1 198 29.161 32.772 questionnaire id 261 0 101007 804018 369534.908 210017.041 result of interview 261 0 1 1 1 completed 261 2 owner/manager not present 0 3 refuse 0 4 address not found 0 5 temporarly closed 0 6 permenantly closed 0 7 sampling error 0 interviewer code 261 0 12 67 35.893 13.73 supervisor code 261 0 1 80 32.866 15.201 office editor 261 0 1 9 3.751 2.388 1 61 2 39 3 40 4 34 5 4 6 50 7 11 8 11 9 11 keyer 261 0 1 15 5.962 2.87 1 13 2 22 3 27 4 29 5 26 6 30 7 28 8 16 9 48 10 18 11 1 15 3 day of interview 259 2 1 31 11.992 8.02 month of interview 259 2 3 5 3.981 0.186 3 7 4 250 5 2 Sysmiss 2 year of interview 261 0 2003 2003 2003 0 2003 261 enterprise weight 261 0 50640 4268729 666869.881 545477.995 hh weight 261 0 0.145 17.211 1.483 3.434 year of start categories 258 3 1 3 1 before 1995 109 2 1995 to 1999 78 3 after 1999 71 Sysmiss 3 year of closing categories 256 5 1 3 1 before 1995 75 2 1995 to 1999 69 3 after 1999 112 Sysmiss 5 h4: relation to household head 261 0 0 7 0 household head 200 1 husband/wife 20 2 son/daughter 31 3 son/daughter in law 0 4 grandchild 0 5 brother/sister 9 6 brother/sister in law 0 7 father/mother 1 8 other relatives 0 9 visitor/servant 0 h5: age 261 0 16 78 40.713 12.594 h6: gender 261 0 0 1 0 male 233 1 female 28 h7: number of grades completed 261 0 0 18 9.552 5.451 0 41 1 1 2 1 3 3 4 4 5 11 6 26 8 3 9 21 10 2 11 7 12 68 14 21 15 1 16 49 17 1 18 1 hq10: categories of number of workers 259 2 1 4 1 1 worker 130 2 2 to 4 workers 108 3 5 to 9 workers 15 4 10 workers or more 6 Sysmiss 2 256 5 0 47 2.98 5.761 categories of enterprises survival 256 5 0 4 0 < 1 year 93 1 1 to 2 years 93 2 3 to 10 years 49 3 11 to 20 years 15 4 more than 20 years 6 Sysmiss 5 years of education categories 261 0 0 5 0 not educated 41 1 1 to 6 years 46 2 7 to 9 years 24 3 10 to 12 years 77 4 13 to 16 years 71 5 17 years or more 2 categories of economic activities 246 15 1 3 1 production 64 2 trade 128 3 services 54 Sysmiss 15 year of start 258 3 1 6 1 1950 to 1959 2 2 1960 to 1969 3 3 1970 to 1979 14 4 1980 to 1989 44 5 1990 to 1999 124 6 2000 + 71 Sysmiss 3 year of closing down 256 5 2 6 1 1950 to 1959 0 2 1960 to 1969 2 3 1970 to 1979 3 4 1980 to 1989 26 5 1990 to 1999 113 6 2000 + 112 Sysmiss 5 261 0 1 99 3.981 6.277 261 0 1 999 13.249 86.935 261 0 101 999 373.916 217.203 urban/rural 261 0 1 2 1 urban 221 2 rural 40 261 0 1 198 29.161 32.772 261 0 101007 804018 369534.908 210017.041 number of members 261 0 1 18 5.318 2.39 1 6 2 10 3 26 4 53 5 73 6 37 7 27 8 9 9 9 10 3 11 2 12 1 13 1 15 2 18 2 261 0 1 13 2.648 2.666 1 166 2 2 3 6 4 57 9 28 10 1 13 1 gov 26435 0 1 8 1 cairo 5971 2 giza 5591 3 alexandria 2490 4 damita 1670 5 gharbia 2747 6 fayoum 1655 7 assyout 3384 8 souhag 2927 psu 26435 0 101 816 394.074 247.063 urbrur 26435 0 1 2 1 urban 23325 2 rural 3110 total buildings in block 26435 0 2 4821 512.56 833.025 total units 26435 0 4 388 273.947 98.648 cluster 26435 0 0 145 8.3 27.755 lmh 26435 0 1 3 1 low 6493 2 mid 8679 3 high 11263 n 26435 0 4 140 50.755 26.561 nf 26435 0 0 25 6.569 4.241 nm 26435 0 1 124 44.186 24.021 sheetser 26435 0 1 43 14.462 9.918 block_no 26435 0 1 54 8.984 8.014 total buildings in psu 26435 0 1 1212 51.554 102.416 sex 26435 0 1 2 1 male 24685 2 female 1750 9 missing 0 sector 26335 100 1 7 1 gov. 481 2 public 78 3 ngo 43 4 cooperative 76 5 local private-professional 2635 6 local private-other 23010 7 foreign private 12 9 missing 0 Sysmiss 100 totemp 25407 1028 1 270 2.316 4.599 utype 26435 0 0 1 0 normal 25802 1 cluster 633 selected 26435 0 0 1 0 no 21410 1 yes 5025 region 26435 0 1 3 1 urban gov. 11562 2 lower egypt 6907 3 upper egypt 7966