***** Readme for Replication Files for "Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries" by David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff
***** Paper forthcoming in Management Science (2016)

*** All analysis was conducted in Stata, version 14
*** Appendix 2 in the paper provides more details on the raw surveys and questions

FILES
BusinessPracticesReplicationdata.dta - this is the anonymized data on business practices for all countries and firms
ReplicationFileBusinessPractices.do - Stata do file to replicate tables in paper using BusinessPracticesReplicationdata.dta
Figure1recorder.grec - Stata graph editor file used in making Figure 1
newFigure2recorder.grec - Stata graph editor file used in making Figure 2
Figure2recorder.grec - Stata graph editor file used in making subfigures in Figure 4
Figure4newcombiner.grec - Stata graph editor file using in making Figure 4
newFigure5recorder.grec - Stata graph editor file using for Appendix Figure 1


*** these supplementary files show how the data were constructed from the raw survey data files. See Appendix 2 for details on which raw surveys are in the public domain
MergeDataKenya.do - file to name and label business practice data for Kenya
NigeriaDataExtract.do - file to name and label data from Nigeria
MExicoRenameVariables.do - file to name and label data from Mexico
CleanBangladesh.do - file to name and label data from Bangladesh
renameChile.do - file to name and label data from Chile
MergeDataSLKWomen.do - file to name and label data from Sri Lankan female sample
SriLanka_renameSMEvars.do - file to name and label SME data from Sri Lanka
Ghana_Renamev2.do - file to rename Ghana variables
SriLankaRenameVariables.do - file to rename other Sri Lankan data

*** Example of a Survey Questionnaire which asks the Business Practice Questions
Informality Eng Ques_7 April 10.pdf - Bangladesh survey (see Section 7, starting page 17)
Current_R1_March2009 - Sri Lanka female sample survey (see Section 9, starting page 18)