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The Egyptian Industrial Firm Behavior Survey (2020/21)

Cairo, Egypt: Economic Research Forum

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The 2020/21 Egyptian Industrial Firm Behavior Survey (EIFBS) is a self-designed, freshly collected and unique dataset of 2,383 Egyptian manufacturing firms. It is the first of its sort to contribute to our systematic understanding of the behavior and nature of the industrial firm in Egypt. It thus compliments the picture provided by the series of Labor Market Panel Surveys in Egypt (1988, 1998, 2006, 2012 and 2018). Labor Market surveys show mainly one side of the coin, namely labor supply, the demand side remained systematically hidden. Since the data was collected during the second COVID-19 wave, 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. The questionnaire includes 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 information technology (IT), production costs, obstacles to operation, exports and global value chains, obstacles to exports, worker training and government support. The dataset can therefore enable the examination of a wide spectrum of pertinent issues concerning the goods market in Egypt. The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) provided the financial contribution under MENA project #: 9002101 directly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, the BMZ. All documentation available for the original survey provided by Amirah El-Haddad, Senior Economist, Program Transformation of Economic and Social Systems, MENA project, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). Amirah El-Haddad designed the two questionnaires for open and closed firms. OAMDI, 2023. Egyptian Industrial Firm Behavior Survey (EIFBS 2020/21), http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/252 Version 1.0 of Licensed Data Files; EIFBS 2020/2021- German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS); Amirah El-Haddad. ERF Egypt, Arab Rep. - Egyptian Industrial Firm Behavior Survey, EIFBS 2020/21

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El-Haddad, Amirah

Economy

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