Egyptian Industrial Firm Behavior Survey, EIFBS 2020/21 - Egypt, Arab Rep.

Abstract --------------------------- ************************************************************************************************************ ************************************************************************************************************ THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 100% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA PROVIDED BY AMIRAH EL-HADDAD ************************************************************************************************************ ************************************************************************************************************ The 2020/21 Egyptian Industrial Firm Behavior Survey (EIFBS) dataset enables the examination of a wide spectrum of pertinent issues concerning the goods market in Egypt. The range of topics includes production structures, productivity, firm transitions, labor demand, trade, global value chains (GVCs), industrial zones, industrial policy, employment, informality, resilience, profitability, technology, innovation, IT and government support. Since the survey was administered during the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of modules include information pre- and post- the crisis which allow the study of a number of issues around the effect on, resilience and survival of the Egyptian manufacturing firm. The data allow disaggregation by firm size, employment by gender, formality status and other characteristics of interest. In summary, the main objective of the survey is to provide high quality data that allows the examination of everything around the industrial firm in Egypt in ordinary times but also during a crisis. Geographic coverage --------------------------- Covering a sample of urban Governorates, lower and upper Egypt Analysis unit --------------------------- Firms Universe --------------------------- The survey covered a national sample of industrial establishments with 5 employees or more. Kind of data --------------------------- Sample survey data [ssd] Sampling procedure --------------------------- The 2020/21 Egyptian Industrial Firm Behavior Survey (EIFBS) is a new data set of 2,383 manufacturing firms. The data were collected at the beginning of the second wave of COVID-19 extending to the height of it. EIFBS firms comprise a multistage stratified sample drawn from the 2017 economic census sample of 33,331 establishments, which is itself drawn from a sample of 117,149 establishments, the latter covering three other censuses, namely the population, housing and establishments' census. The EIFBS sample design is based on three parameters to ensure that the sample produces representative and precise estimates at the national level. These parameters are number of employees, region (urban governorates, lower and upper Egypt) and economic activity level (2 digits). The sample frame, however, excludes firms with less than 5 employees and thus is only representative of small, medium and large enterprises (SMEs). This also implies that informal firms - albeit present - are underrepresented in our sample. First, the sample was allocated proportionally among the three regions (urban governorates, lower Egypt, and upper Egypt), which cover 99.2% of industrial establishments in Egypt. A systematic random sample was drawn to select three governorates from each region using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS). The industrial establishments in each region were allocated among governorates proportional to their size (measured by employment). Next, a systematic random sample was used to select the establishments in each governorate after sorting the establishments according to the number of employees and economic activity at the 4 digits level. Mode of data collection --------------------------- Face-to-face [f2f] Research instrument --------------------------- Two questionnaires were administered, one for firms that are still in operation, and another, very similar one, for firms that have exited the market or have temporarily shut down operations. Only four modules are slightly different. The main difference is that for temporarily closed or closed firms there are no values for current variables such as production, exports, employment or revenues. The questionnaire has 14 modules: basic firm identification data, firm size, firm expectations on recovery and potential exit, changes in firm performance, pandemic transmission channels, ownership and management characteristics, innovation, management practices and use of IT, production costs, obstacles to operation, exports and global value chains, obstacles to exports, worker training and government support. Response rate --------------------------- The response rate is 75%, meaning that 2,383 establishments were successfully interviewed of which 2338 are in operation and 45 firms have either exited the market or are temporarily closed. Of the 766 firms not interviewed, an unknown number, but probably a higher proportion, have also exited the market.