Transition to Clean Energy Enterprise Survey-Tunisia, TCEEST_2023 - Tunisia

Abstract --------------------------- The MENA region grapples with intensified climate challenges and mounting energy issues. Access to energy is becoming more challenging, particularly for energy importing countries in the region. This makes the transition to clean energy in MENA a vital one. Luckily, the region has inherent comparative advantages given the natural endowments of high solar radiation over much of the year and strong wind nodes. This data set, collected over one round, covers a spectrum of company-specific details, including sector categorization, employee count, regulatory compliance, experiences with grid-based electricity, and the extent of clean energy transition among enterprises in Tunisia. The data is collected under a comprehensive cross-sectional survey (from December 2023 to February 2024) that investigates how Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Tunisia navigate their transition towards clean energy. This survey comes under the activities of ERF newly launched project “The role of MSMEs in fostering inclusive and equitable economic growth in the context of the clean energy transition in MENA” project funded by IDRC. The project launches a series of quantitative national surveys in the 5 targeted counties namely Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon and Tunisia This initiative aims to gather crucial data reflecting the ongoing energy transition in these countries. The objective of this survey data aims at enhancing knowledge and contributing to strategic policy initiatives, seeking to pave the way for sustainable, efficient, and equitable energy management while addressing mitigation of emission and ensuring energy security and equity. All Transitions to Clean Energy in MENA Enterprises surveys incorporate relatively comparable survey designs, with data on enterprises within the Arab countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Lebanon).The harmonization was designed to create comparable data that can facilitate cross-country and comparative research between the five Arab countries. Geographic coverage --------------------------- National Analysis unit --------------------------- Enterprises Universe --------------------------- The target population is the non-governmental micro, small, and medium enterprises that commenced business operations before 2023. Kind of data --------------------------- Sample Survey Data [ssd] Sampling procedure --------------------------- The target population of the surveys was businesses with less than 100 employees that started business operations before 2023. An ideal sampling frame for a probability sample should cover all target population units, i.e., a list of all working businesses of size 100 employes or less that started operations before 2023 with their telephone numbers. Unfortunately, we could not find such list in Tunisia. Therefore, we used data from Tunisia Yellow Pages, and data from the Institut National de la Statistique (INS). We had access to a list of about 185,966 businesses from INS and 8,685 businesses from the Yellow Pages. Although the sampling frames does not necessarily cover all businesses in Tunisia, it is large enough and cover many business sectors. Unfortunately, we could not assess the coverage of the sampling frame especially with the lack of official numbers about our target population in Tunisia. Four sample were selected for the survey of Renewable Energy in Tunisia, three sample from the INS frame and one sample from the Yellow Pages. The three samples of INS were stratified by sample sectors and business size; those samples were selected from businesses with telephone numbers (businesses without telephone number were not considered for selection). All businesses from the Yellow Pages were included in the fourth sample; no selection was done. Mode of data collection --------------------------- Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati] Research instrument --------------------------- Note: The questionnaire can be seen in the documentation materials tab. Response rate --------------------------- Response rate is 3.5%, after excluding those phones that were not in service and firms that were not eligible from the response rate.