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Encuesta de Productividad de Empresas (Survey of Enterprise Productivity) 2007

Bolivia, 2007
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Reference ID
BOL_2007_EPE_v01_M
Producer(s)
David McKenzie, Yaye Seynabou Sakho
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Mar 24, 2013
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  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    BOL_2007_EPE_v01_M

    Title

    Encuesta de Productividad de Empresas (Survey of Enterprise Productivity) 2007

    Country
    Name Country code
    Bolivia BOL
    Study type

    Enterprise Survey [en/oth]

    Abstract

    The majority of firms in many developing countries are informal. Bolivia has the highest level of informality in Latin America, according to 2007 World Bank data. While there are several levels of registration with the government, firms understand formality as registering for a tax identification number (NIT).

    Encuesta de Productividad de Empresas (Survey of Enterprise Productivity) is a detailed firm survey that was carried out in Bolivia in March and April 2007. The study was designed as part of World Bank's economic and sector work (ESW) to understand the costs and benefits of formality. Researchers used GPS coordinates to measure the distance of a firm to the tax registration office, and to control for the distance to the city center and to the municipal registration office. The distance to the tax office was then used as an instrument for formalizing.

    The survey covered micro- and small enterprises in four largest cities - La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba - with additional research conducted in several rural areas. Six industries were chosen for the survey: grocery stores, restaurants and food sales, manufacturing of clothing from wool and cloth, transportation of passengers and cargo, manufacturing of clothing from camelid wool (from llamas and alpacas), and manufacturing of furniture from wood. Overall, the survey covered 629 businesses.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis
    • micro firms (less than five workers),
    • small firms (5-20 workers).

    Version

    Version Description
    • v01: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.
    Version Date

    2007

    Scope

    Notes
    • businesses' general information and background,
    • investment climate,
    • equipment,
    • expenditures and revenue,
    • business finance,
    • formality,
    • sale of food, milk,
    • grocery stores and bakeries,
    • clothing,
    • passenger transport,
    • handmade clothing from camelid wool,
    • manufacture of wood products (furniture and handicrafts).

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and several rural areas.

    Universe

    Six industries were chosen for the survey: grocery stores, restaurants and food sales, manufacturing of clothing from wool and cloth, transportation of passengers and cargo, manufacturing of clothing from camelid wool (from llamas and alpacas), and manufacturing of furniture from wood. The industries were chosen to represent a large portion of the self-employed and small employers, and to encompass a diversity of sectors. According to the 2005 Bolivian Living Standards Measurement Survey, the industries chosen include four of the top five industries for urban small and medium enterprises and cover approximately 40% of all self-employed and employers.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    David McKenzie World Bank
    Yaye Seynabou Sakho World Bank
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    World Bank

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The sample frame consisted of a geographic information database maintained by the survey firm. This database is based on a census of all economic establishments in these cities carried out in August 2005, and includes enterprises operating within households. This was supplemented with data for the transportation sector on all firms that have registered their cars. This provided a reasonably comprehensive sampling frame for urban areas. The sample was stratified across cities and firm size, in order to include a mix of micro firms (with less than five workers), and small firms with 5-20 workers. The sample used here is almost equally divided across the four cities. Groceries, Food, and Transportation each constitute about 20% of the sample, Clothing from wool and cloth and manufacturing from wood each constitute 15% of the sample, and clothing from camelids the remaining 10%.

    A sample frame was not available for rural areas, and therefore snowball sampling method was used to survey camelid and wood firms in rural areas.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2007-03 2007-04
    Data Collectors
    Name
    Encuestas y Estudios

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the identification of the primary investigator,
    • the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation),
    • the survey reference number,
    • the source and date of download.

    Example,

    David McKenzie, World Bank, Yaye Seynabou Sakho, World Bank. Encuesta de Productividad de Empresas (Survey of Enterprise Productivity) (EPE) 2007, Ref. BOL_2007_EPE_v01_M, Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date].

    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 URL
    David McKenzie World Bank dmckenzie@worldbank.org
    World Bank Microdata Library World Bank microdata@worldbank.org http://microdata.worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_BOL_2007_EPE_v01_M

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the study using DDI standard
    Date of Metadata Production

    2013-01-31

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    v01 (January 2013)

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