This paper addresses the issue of poor data on Mozambican manufacturing firms. A
new dataset (the merged manufacturing database) is merged from provincial industrial databases
from each of Mozambique’s 11 provinces. The new dataset is assessed by comparing it to the
latest manufacturing enterprise survey as well as the latest firm census. The merged
manufacturing database is found to provide a somewhat accurate picture of small, medium, and
large firms, but many micro enterprises are not found on the list. Realizing this, the population
of manufacturing firms in Mozambique by size and province is estimated using imputation
methods. Finally, the degree of representativeness of the two latest enterprise surveys (IIM2012
and the survey used for the latest investment climate assessment) is revisited using the new
population estimate.