Rwanda - Micro-Enterprise Survey 2011

Start	End	Cycle
2011-06	2012-02	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
Private contractors conduct Micro-Enterprise Surveys on behalf of the World Bank. Due to sensitive survey questions addressing business-government relations and corruption-related topics, private contractors are preferred over any government agency or an organization or institution associated with government, and are hired by the World Bank to collect the data.

The surveys are usually implemented following a two-stage procedure. In the first stage, a screener questionnaire is applied over the phone to determine eligibility and to make appointments; in the second stage, a face-to-face interview takes place with the manager, owner or director of each establishment. However, the phone numbers were unavailable in the sample frame, and thus the enumerators applied the screeners in person.

Micro-Enterprise Surveys are conducted in local languages.

The following survey instruments are available:
- Manufacturing Module Questionnaire [ISIC Rev.3.1: 15-37]
- Services Module Questionnaire [ISIC Rev.3.1: 45, 50, 51, 52, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 & 72]
- Screener Questionnaire.

The survey is fielded via manufacturing or services questionnaires in order not to ask questions that are irrelevant to specific types of firms, e.g. a question that relates to production and nonproduction workers should not be asked of a retail firm. In addition to questions that are asked across countries, all surveys are customized and contain country-specific questions. An example of customization would be including tourism-related questions that are asked in certain countries when tourism is an existing or potential sector of economic growth. Each version of the questionnaire is identified by the variable a0.

In the implementation of the Africa rollout 2011 an experiment was carried in some of the countries to better estimate the effects of the use of show cards in data collection. In some of the sections (i.e. Innovation) the enumerators were trained to alternatively implement the section using either show cards or asking only the questions without showing any cards. The variation is identified by the variable "cards".

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
OutReach Development Solutions

Complete information regarding the sampling methodology, sample frame, weights, response rates, and implementation can be found in "Description of Rwanda ES 2011 Implementation" in Technical Documents.