Informal Survey 2009 - Madagascar

Abstract
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This research is a survey of unregistered businesses conducted in Madagascar between September 2008 and February 2009 at the same time with Madagascar 2009 Enterprise Survey. 127 informal businesses were interviewed.

The objective of World Bank firm-level surveys is to obtain feedback from enterprises in client countries on the state of the private sector, assess constraints to private sector growth and create statistically significant business environment indicators that are comparable across countries.

Informal survey questionnaires are a shorter, tailored to unregistered businesses, version of Enterprise Survey questionnaires. The topics include general information about a business, infrastructure and services, sales and supplies, crime, sources and access to finance, business-government relationship, assets, AIDS and sickness (for African region), bribery, workforce composition, obstacles to get registration, reasons for not registering, and benefits that an establishment could get from registration. Business owners or managers are interviewed face-to-face.

Geographic coverage
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National

Analysis unit
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The primary sampling unit of Informal Surveys is an unregistered establishment. In Madagascar, posession of a Tax Identification Card (carte d'identification fiscale) differentiated formal and informal businesses.

Universe
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The whole population, or the universe, covered in the survey is the non-agricultural economy. It comprises: all manufacturing sectors according to the ISIC Revision 3.1 group classification (group D), construction sector (group F), services sector (groups G and H), and transport, storage, and communications sector (group I). Note that this population definition excludes the following sectors: financial intermediation (group J), real estate and renting activities (group K, except sub-sector 72, IT, which was added to the population under study), and all public or utilities-sectors.

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure
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For the informal sector, there were no sample lists of firms. The sampling procedure was to survey an unregistered establishment in a certain geographic region and sector, similar to a registered business with one to four employees, interviewed for the Enterprise Survey that was conducted in conjunction with the Informal Survey.

Because a formal sample frame was not used, it is not possible to calculate response rates, universe estimates, or sampling weights for the informal sector sample.

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument
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The current survey instrument is available:
- Informal Questionnaire.

The survey topics include general information about a business, infrastructure and services, sales and supplies, crime, sources and access to finance, business-government relationship, assets, AIDS and sickness (for African region), bribery, workforce composition, obstacles to get registration, reasons for not registering, and benefits that an establishment could get from registration.

Cleaning operations
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Data entry and quality controls are implemented by the contractor and data is delivered to the World Bank in batches (typically 10%, 50% and 100%). These data deliveries are checked for logical consistency, out of range values, skip patterns, and duplicate entries. Problems are flagged by the World Bank and corrected by the implementing contractor through data checks, callbacks, and revisiting establishments.

摘要
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本研究是对马达加斯加在2008年9月至2009年2月期间进行的非注册企业调查的综述，此调查与2009年马达加斯加企业调查同步进行。共访谈了127家非正式企业。
世界银行公司层面的调查旨在从客户国家的企业中获得关于私营部门状况的反馈，评估私营部门增长的制约因素，并创建具有统计显著性的、跨国家可比的商业环境指标。
非正式调查问卷是企业调查问卷的一个简短版本，专为非注册企业量身定制。内容涵盖有关企业的一般信息、基础设施和服务、销售和供应、犯罪、资金来源和获取、企业与政府的关系、资产、艾滋病和疾病（针对非洲地区）、贿赂、劳动力构成、获得注册的障碍、未注册的原因以及企业从注册中可能获得的利益。访谈对象为企业的所有者或管理者。
地理覆盖范围
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全国
分析单位
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非正式调查的主要抽样单位是非注册企业。在马达加斯加，是否拥有税务识别卡（carte d'identification fiscale）区分了正式和非正式企业。
总体
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调查覆盖的总体或全体是非农业经济。它包括：根据ISIC修订版3.1分组分类的所有制造业部门（组D）、建筑业部门（组F）、服务业部门（组G和H），以及运输、仓储和通信部门（组I）。请注意，此人口定义不包括以下部门：金融中介（组J）、房地产和租赁活动（组K，除子部门72，信息技术，该子部门已被纳入研究总体之外），以及所有公共或公用事业部门。
数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]
抽样程序
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对于非正式部门，没有企业样本清单。抽样程序是在某个地理区域和部门调查一个非注册企业，这与注册企业中员工人数为一至四人的企业调查相似，该企业调查与非正式调查同时进行。
由于未使用正式样本框架，因此无法计算非正式部门样本的回应率、总体估计或抽样权重。
数据收集方式
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面对面 [f2f]
研究工具
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当前调查工具如下所示：
- 非正式问卷。
调查主题包括有关企业的一般信息、基础设施和服务、销售和供应、犯罪、资金来源和获取、企业与政府的关系、资产、艾滋病和疾病（针对非洲地区）、贿赂、劳动力构成、获得注册的障碍、未注册的原因以及企业从注册中可能获得的利益。
数据清理操作
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数据输入和质量控制由承包商实施，数据以批量形式（通常为10%、50%和100%）交付世界银行。这些数据交付将进行逻辑一致性、超出范围值、跳过模式和重复条目的检查。问题将由世界银行标记并由实施承包商通过数据检查、回访和复查企业进行纠正。