The Socioeconomic Role of the Small Businesswoman in the Informal Sector in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Living conditions and economic activities of small business women in
the informal sector.
Topics: number of children; number of children in the household;
number of employed household members; amount of rent; number of rooms
in the house; country of origin; ethnic descent; length of stay in
Abidjan; reasons for migrating to Abidjan; education level;
occupation; business location; financial sources for founding the
business; type and amount of investments so far; financial sources
for investment; amount of rent for the building and frequency of rent
payments; expenditures for repairs, electricity and other costs;
number of hours worked each day and each week; type of workers;
number of trainees; number of hours worked each day and each week by
trainees; trainee income; planned improvements and expansions of the
business; main financial source for such investments; reasons for
deferring improvement or expansion measures; possible credit sources
and maximum amount available; book-keeping; checking and bank
accounts; frequency and amount of deposits with a savings
institution; frequency of payments from savings institution;
possibility of a loan from the savings institution; amount of
interest; number of members in the savings institution; frequency and
amount of contributions to ethnic groups; type of group and number of
members; possibility of a loan from the ethnic group; frequency and
amount of contributions to other groups as well as type of group and
number of members; credit sources consulted and reasons for not
approaching possible creditors; frequency of food deliveries from
hometown; frequency and amount of money transferred to the hometown;
recipients of the financial contributions; expenditure for food,
clothes, education and other costs; products sold and produced;
material costs; profit on each item; number of items sold daily;
income and profession of husband; use of media; possession of radio
and television; preferred radio station and program; preferred
television program; preferred newspaper.