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Youth Employment and Skills Development Project - Apprenticeship Youth Surveys 2019-2021

Côte d'Ivoire, 2019 - 2021
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Reference ID
CIV_2019-2021_PEJEDEC-AYS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Patrick Premand, Bruno Crepon, Eva Lestant
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Jan 09, 2026
Last modified
Jan 09, 2026
  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    CIV_2019-2021_PEJEDEC-AYS_v01_M
    Title

    Youth Employment and Skills Development Project - Apprenticeship Youth Surveys 2019-2021
    Abbreviation or Acronym

    PEJEDEC-AYS 2019-21
    Country
    Name Country code
    Cote d'Ivoire CIV
    Study type

    Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
    Series Information

    This entry complements data for 2014, 2016 and 2018.
    Abstract

    This micro catalog entry contains the Cote d'Ivoire PEJEDEC Apprenticeship Youth Surveys collected in 2019 and 2021. Primary analysis of this data is provided in Crepon, Lestant and Premand, "From Training to Earning: The 7-Year Impact of Dual Apprenticeships on Self-Employment", Policy Research Working Paper, World Bank.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Youth (individuals)

    Version

    Version Date

    2025-12-17
    Version Notes

    This micro catalog entry contains the Cote d'Ivoire PEJEDEC Apprenticeship Youth Follow-up Surveys collected in 2019 and 2021 for the impact evaluation published in Crepon, Lestant and Premand, 2026, "From Training to Earning: The 7-Year Impact of Dual Apprenticeships on Self-Employment". Specifically, it includes two datasets. Youth 2019 follow-up dataset: "y4_raw_youth_endline.dta" and 2. Youth 2021 follow-up dataset: "y5_raw_youth_endline.dta".

    Scope

    Notes

    The study covers the following themes:

    • Identification of the youth
    • Individual information about the youth
    • Youth Employment
    • Job search, employment perceptions and prospects
    • Education and training
    • Job stability
    • Employment situation timeline
    • Attitude and personality traits
    • Savings and finances
    • Self-efficacy

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The impact evaluation of the PEJEDEC apprenticeship program was implemented in seven urban localities in the interior of Cote d'Ivoire: Man, Daoukro, Gagnoa, Divo, Bouaké, Adzopé, and Mankono.
    Universe

    Across the seven study localities in the study, 1842 eligible youths applied to participate in the program. They constitute the study sample.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Patrick Premand DEC Development Impact, World Bank
    Bruno Crepon CREST, JPAL
    Eva Lestant Stanford University
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Abbreviation
    BCP-Emploi PEJEDEC project
    JPAL PPE initiative
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name Role
    IPA Data Collection

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    Across the seven localities in the study, 1842 eligible youths applied to participate in the program. They constitute the study sample.
    Response Rate

    All youth follow-up surveys were collected by phone, but substantial efforts were made to minimize attrition, including with some in-person tracking. As a result, 1,623 youth were interviewed in the 2019 follow-up survey (88.6%), and 1,581 in the 2021 follow-up survey (86.3%).

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2019-11-01 2020-01-30 2019 survey
    2021-07-01 2021-09-30 2021 survey
    Mode of data collection
    • Computer-aided telephone interviews [cati]
    Data Collectors
    Name
    IPA
    Data Collection Notes

    The 2019 follow-up survey was finalized in January 2020, just before COVID-19 reached West Africa. The 2021 follow-up survey took place between July-September 2021.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation Email
    Patrick Premand DEC Development Impact, World Bank ppremand@worldbank.org
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required?
    yes
    Citation requirements

    Whenever using this data, please cite the underlying article that details the study design, as well as the paper that provides primary analysis of the underlying data:

    • Crepon, Bruno and Patrick Premand. 2024. "Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships", Review of Economic Studies.
    • Crepon, Lestant and Premand, 2026, "From Training to Earning: The 7-Year Impact of Dual Apprenticeships on Self-Employment", Policy Research Working Paper, World Bank.

    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
    Patrick Premand DEC Development Impact ppremand@worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_CIV_2019-2021_PEJEDEC-AYS_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group DECDG World Bank Group Documentation of the study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2026-01-09T05:00:00.000Z

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (January 2026)
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