GET Ahead Business Training Program Impact Evaluation 2013 - 2017

Kenya, 2013 - 2017

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Data file: r2r3publicuse2

The Round 2 and Round 3 follow-up survey data

Cases:	7114
Variables:	685

Variables

sec5_1a2

5.1a How much did you use to purchase any new ${clsec5_1prefill}

sec5_1b2

5.1b How much did you receive for sales from ${clsec5_1prefill}

clsec5_1prefill3

3 clsec5_1prefill

sec5_1a3

5.1a How much did you use to purchase any new ${clsec5_1prefill}

sec5_1b3

5.1b How much did you receive for sales from ${clsec5_1prefill}

clsec5_1prefill4

4 clsec5_1prefill

sec5_1a4

5.1a How much did you use to purchase any new ${clsec5_1prefill}

sec5_1b4

5.1b How much did you receive for sales from ${clsec5_1prefill}

clsec5_1prefill5

5 clsec5_1prefill

sec5_1a5

5.1a How much did you use to purchase any new ${clsec5_1prefill}

sec5_1b5

5.1b How much did you receive for sales from ${clsec5_1prefill}

clsec5_1prefill6

6 clsec5_1prefill

sec5_1a6

5.1a How much did you use to purchase any new ${clsec5_1prefill}

sec5_1b6

5.1b How much did you receive for sales from ${clsec5_1prefill}

clsec5_1a7_

Total calculated of 5_1a1-5_1a6

clsec5_1b7_

Total calculated of 5_1b1-5_1b6

clsec5_2prefill1

1 clsec5_2prefill

sec5_2a1

5.2a What is the value for your owned ${clsec5_2prefill}?

sec5_2b1

5.2b What is the value for rented(monthly rental) ${clsec5_2prefill}

clsec5_2prefill2

2 clsec5_2prefill

sec5_2a2

5.2a What is the value for your owned ${clsec5_2prefill}?

sec5_2b2

5.2b What is the value for rented(monthly rental) ${clsec5_2prefill}

clsec5_2prefill3

3 clsec5_2prefill

sec5_2a3

5.2a What is the value for your owned ${clsec5_2prefill}?

sec5_2b3

5.2b What is the value for rented(monthly rental) ${clsec5_2prefill}

clsec5_2prefill4

4 clsec5_2prefill

sec5_2a4

5.2a What is the value for your owned ${clsec5_2prefill}?

sec5_2b4

5.2b What is the value for rented(monthly rental) ${clsec5_2prefill}

sec5_2a5_

5.2a What is the value for your owned ${clsec5_2prefill}?

sec5_2b5_

5.2b What is the value for rented(monthly rental) ${clsec5_2prefill}

sec5_3_

5.3 Do you have any inventories in stock, products for sale, raw materials, prod

sec5_3ai

5.3ai Does the business seem to have any inventory?

sec5_3aii

Enter comments from the respondent if there seems to be inventory

sec5_4_

5.4 At market prices, what is the value you calculate of your current inventorie

sec5_4i

5.4i The value of your inventory is ${sec5_4_}. Is this correct?

sec5_4ii

5.4ii At market prices, what is the value you calculate of your current inventor

sec5_4a

5.4a What is the value of inventories or raw materials that you have had to thro

sec5_4b

5.4b Did your firm receive a bulk discount when purchasing inventories or raw ma

sec5_5_

5.5 How much cash on hand does your business currently have?

sec5_6a

5.6a Purchase of materials and items for resale

sec5_6b

5.6b Purchase of electricity, water, gas and fuel

sec5_6c

5.6c Market fee (e.g. for use or city tax on stall space)

sec5_6d

5.6d Interest paid on loans

sec5_6e

5.6e Wages and salaries for employees

sec5_6f

5.6f Rent for land or buildings

sec5_6g

sec5_6h

5.6h Other expenses, including equipment rental, telephone, transportation

clsec5_6i

Total expenses calculated

sec5_6i

5.6i Your total expenses in the last month were ${clsec5_6i}?

sec5_7i

5.7i The sales of your business yesterday increased by ${cl5_7i}. Is this corre

sec5_7b

5.7b Why were your sales zero?

sec5_7b_other

sec5_7c

5.7c You have said your sales were ${sec5_7_}? Is this correct?

sec5_7d

5.7d Then, what were your sales for last week?

sec5_8i

5.8i Your sales increased by ${cl5_8i}. Is this correct?

sec5_8b

5.8b Why were your sales zero?

sec5_8b_other

sec5_8c

5.8c You have said your sales were ${sec5_8_}? Is this correct?

sec5_8d

5.8d Then, what were your sales for last week?

sec5_9ai

5.9ai Why were your profits zero?

sec5_9ai_other

sec5_9aii

5.9aii Your profits were ${sec5_9_}

sec5_9b

5.9b What were your profits in the week before last?

sec5_9bi

5.9bi Which of the following ranges is the week before last weekâ€™s profits in?

sec5_12_

5.12 Has your firm introduced new products or services during the past year

sec5_13_

5.13 What is the main new product or service introduced?

sec5_13__other

sec5_17_

5.17 Apart from the business we have been talking about, do you own any other bu

sec5_18_

5.18 How many additional businesses do you own

sec5_19a

5.19a Would you like to tell me about your 2 business?

sec5_19ai

5.19ai What is the sector of business 2?

sec5_19aii

5.19aii What is the type of business 2?

sec5_19aii_other

sec5_19b

5.19b Would you like to tell me about your 3 business?

sec5_19bi

5.19bi What is the sector of business 3?

sec5_19bii

5.19bii What is the type of business 3?

sec5_19c

5.19c Would you like to tell me about your 4 business?

sec5_19ci

5.19ci What is the sector of business 4?

sec5_19cii

5.19cii What is the type of business 4?

sec5_20_

5.20 How many hours per week do you spend in total working on these other busine

sec5_21_

5.21 How much money did you take home [i.e. profit] from these other businesses

sec5_22_

5.22 In the past month, have you also done any wage labor?

sec5_23a

5.23a How many hours did you work as a wage worker in the last week?

sec5_23b

5.23b How much did you earn in wage work in the last week?

sec5_24_

5.24 What was the total income of your household for LAST MONTH, including incom

sec5_24a

5.24a Which of the following ranges gives the best estimate of the total income

sec5_25

5.25 Which of the following best describes how you decide how much money to take

sec5_25_other

sec5_26_

5.26 Do you have a method you use to try to reinvest some of the profits in grow

sec5_27_

5.27 How do you think about reinvesting money in your business

sec5_27__other

sec5_28a

5.28a Keep money intended for the business and intended for the household in sep

sec5_28b

5.28b Put money intended to save for a big purchase in a separate place, jar, en

sec5_29_

5.29 Would you like to grow your business to have more sales than it does now?

sec5_30_

5.30 Would you like to grow your business to have more workers than it does now?

sec5_31_

5.31 Think of your business 5 years from now. What would be the ideal size of yo

sec5_32ai

5.32i What is the first main challenge you face in growing your business larger?

sec5_32aii

5.23ii What is the second main challenge you face in growing your business large

sec5_32a

5.32 What are the main two challenges you face in growing your business larger?

sec5_32b

5.32 What are the main two challenges you face in growing your business larger?

sec5_32_other

clsec6_1_prefill1

1 clsec6_1_prefill

sec6_1a1

6.1a Do you belong to a ${clsec6_1_prefill}

sec6_1b1

6.1b How many people are in this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

sec6_1c1

6.1c How often do you discuss your own business or work issues with people from

sec6_1d1

6.1d What are the goals of this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

sec6_1d_other1

sec6_1e1

6.1e Do you currently hold a leadership role in this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

clsec6_1_prefill2

2 clsec6_1_prefill

sec6_1a2

6.1a Do you belong to a ${clsec6_1_prefill}

sec6_1b2

6.1b How many people are in this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

sec6_1c2

6.1c How often do you discuss your own business or work issues with people from

sec6_1d2

6.1d What are the goals of this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

sec6_1d_other2

sec6_1e2

6.1e Do you currently hold a leadership role in this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

clsec6_1_prefill3

3 clsec6_1_prefill

sec6_1a3

6.1a Do you belong to a ${clsec6_1_prefill}

sec6_1b3

6.1b How many people are in this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

sec6_1c3

6.1c How often do you discuss your own business or work issues with people from

sec6_1d3

6.1d What are the goals of this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

sec6_1d_other3

sec6_1e3

6.1e Do you currently hold a leadership role in this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

clsec6_1_prefill4

4 clsec6_1_prefill

sec6_1a4

6.1a Do you belong to a ${clsec6_1_prefill}

sec6_1b4

6.1b How many people are in this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

sec6_1c4

6.1c How often do you discuss your own business or work issues with people from

sec6_1d4

6.1d What are the goals of this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

sec6_1d_other4

sec6_1e4

6.1e Do you currently hold a leadership role in this ${clsec6_1_prefill}?

sec_6_2_

6.2 How many other business owners do you discuss business matters such as prici

sec_6_3_

6.3 Do you work together with any other business owners when buying raw material

sec7_1a

7.1a Visited one of your competitorâ€™s businesses to see what prices they are c

sec7_1b

7.1b Visited one of your competitorâ€™s businesses to see what products they hav

sec7_1c

7.1c Asked your existing customers whether there are any other products they wou

sec7_1d

7.1d Talked with a former customer to find out why they have stopped buying from

sec7_1e

7.1e Asked a supplier about which products are selling well in your industry?

sec7_2_

7.2 In the last three months have you used a special offer to attract customers?

sec7_3_

7.3 In the last six months, have you done any form of advertising?

sec7_4_

7.4 Did you do the following?

sec7_4a

7.4a Advertised using flyers

sec7_4b

7.4b Advertised using paid advertisements in community events?

sec7_4c

7.4c Advertised using yellow pages

sec7_4d

7.4d Advertised using newspapers

sec7_4e

7.4e Advertised using billboards away from the business site

sec7_4f

7.4f Advertised using attending meetings / other personal sales calls

sec7_4g

7.4g Advertised using calendars and diaries

sec7_4h

7.4h Added new signage or displays to your business site

sec7_4i

7.4i Other? (specify)

sec7_5_

7.5 Did you do anything to measure the effectiveness of the advertising?

sec7_6_

7.6 In the last three months have you attempted to negotiate with a supplier for

sec7_6a

7.6a If yes, were you successful in obtaining a lower price?

sec7_7_

7.7 In the last three months, have you compared the prices or quality offered by

sec7_8_

7.8 Do you keep goods to sell, or raw materials to use in providing a service?

sec7_9_

7.9 What is the most common way you purchase inputs / inventories?

sec7_9__other

sec7_10_

7.10 How frequently do you run out of stock of these inventories or raw material

sec7_11_

7.11 How long does it take to obtain goods for which you have run out of stock?

sec7_12_

7.12 Do you have a record-keeping system which allows you to know how much stock

sec7_12a

7.12a Is the systemâ€¦

sec7_13_

7.13 How often do you update the information on inventory levels?

sec7_14_

7.14 Do you keep written business records?

sec7_15_

7.15 Do you record every purchase and sale made by the business?

sec7_16_

7.16 Are you able to use your records to easily see how much cash your business

sec7_17_

7.17 Do you regularly use your records to know whether sales of a particular pro

sec7_18_

7.18 Have you worked out the cost to you of each main product you sell?

sec7_19_

7.19 Do you know which goods you make the most profit per item in selling?

sec7_20_

7.20 Do you have a written budget, which tells you how much you have to pay each

sec7_21_

7.21 Do you sell any goods on credit to customers?

sec7_21a

7.21a Do you have a written record of how much each customer owes you?

sec7_22_

7.22 If you wanted to apply for a bank loan, and were asked to provide records t

sec7_23_

7.23 How frequently do you review the financial performance of your business and

sec7_24_

7.24 Do you have a target set for sales over the next year?

sec7_24a

7.24a How frequently do you compare performance to your target?

sec7_25_

7.25 Have you made a budget of what costs facing your business are likely to be

sec7_26_

7.26 Which of the following do you or your accountant prepare at least annually?

sec7_26_1

1. Profit and loss statement

sec7_26_2

2. Statement of cash flow

sec7_26_3

3. Balance sheet

sec7_26_4

4. Income/Expenditure statement

sec7_26_5

6. Do not prepare any accounting statement

sec7_26__other

sec7_27_

7.27 Have you prepared a business action plan for your business which details th

sec8_1_

8.1 In the past year have you taken part in any training to improve your busines

sec8_2_

8.2 What training was this?

sec8_3_

8.3 Who offered the training?

sec8_4_

8.4 Approximately how many hours of training did you receive?

sec8_5_

I will read you the options, please tell me if they were covered or not

sec8_5a

8.5a Accounting / maintaining business records

sec8_5b

8.5b Dealing with customers and suppliers

sec8_5c

sec8_5d

8.5d Management of employees

sec8_5e

8.5e Organization of production

sec8_5f

8.5f Technical training

sec8_5g

8.5g Communications or negotiations

sec8_5h

8.5h Is there any other general area of running a business that was covered?

sec8_5i

8.5i Please specify

sec8_6_

8.6 Have you made any changes in the way you run your business as a result of th

sec8_7_

8.7 If so, what are the main changes made?

sec8_8_

8.8 Have you shared information you learned in business training with other busi

sec8_9a

8.9a What was the main type of information you shared?

sec8_9b

8.9b Enumerator: Pick code about the main type of information shared in the trai

sec8_9b_other

sec9_1_

9.1 Who has access to the money you make from your business?

sec9_2_

9.2 Who decides how money from your business will be spent?

sec9_2_1

sec9_2_2

2. Myself and spouse jointly

sec9_2_3

sec9_2_4

4. Myself and other persons (not my spouse)

sec9_2_5

5. Only other persons

sec10_1_

10.1 When I have money in my hand, I am compelled to spend it on the needs my fa

sec10_2_

10.2 Is there some money that you have sole control over, to spend on anything y

clsec10_3_prefill1

1 clsec10_3_prefill

sec10_3a1

10.3 Do you need to ask permission from someone before you can ${clsec10_3_pref

sec10_3b1

10.3b Who do you need to consult or get permission from?

sec10_3c1

10.3c In a typical case, how likely are you to get agreement or permission ?

clsec10_3_prefill2

2 clsec10_3_prefill

sec10_3a2

10.3 Do you need to ask permission from someone before you can ${clsec10_3_pref

sec10_3b2

10.3b Who do you need to consult or get permission from?

sec10_3c2

10.3c In a typical case, how likely are you to get agreement or permission ?

clsec10_3_prefill3

3 clsec10_3_prefill

sec10_3a3

10.3 Do you need to ask permission from someone before you can ${clsec10_3_pref

sec10_3b3

10.3b Who do you need to consult or get permission from?

sec10_3c3

10.3c In a typical case, how likely are you to get agreement or permission ?

clsec10_3_prefill4

4 clsec10_3_prefill

sec10_3a4

10.3 Do you need to ask permission from someone before you can ${clsec10_3_pref

sec10_3b4

10.3b Who do you need to consult or get permission from?

sec10_3c4

10.3c In a typical case, how likely are you to get agreement or permission ?

clsec10_3_prefill5

5 clsec10_3_prefill

sec10_3a5

10.3 Do you need to ask permission from someone before you can ${clsec10_3_pref

sec10_3b5

10.3b Who do you need to consult or get permission from?

sec10_3c5

10.3c In a typical case, how likely are you to get agreement or permission ?

clsec10_3_prefill6

6 clsec10_3_prefill

sec10_3a6

10.3 Do you need to ask permission from someone before you can ${clsec10_3_pref

sec10_3b6

10.3b Who do you need to consult or get permission from?

sec10_3c6

10.3c In a typical case, how likely are you to get agreement or permission ?

clsec10_3_prefill7

7 clsec10_3_prefill

sec10_3a7

10.3 Do you need to ask permission from someone before you can ${clsec10_3_pref

sec10_3b7

10.3b Who do you need to consult or get permission from?

sec10_3c7

10.3c In a typical case, how likely are you to get agreement or permission ?

lbsec10_4_

10.4 Do you own the following?

sec10_4a

10.4a Irons and heaters

sec10_4b

10.4b Refrigerator or freezer

sec10_4c

sec10_4d

10.4d Sewing machines

sec10_4e

10.4e Radio, cassette players, CD players and record players

sec10_4f

10.4f Television sets, VCR, DVDs

sec10_4g

10.4g Motorcycles ,scooters, three-wheelers (tuktuks, for example)

sec10_4h

10.4h Motor cars, vans, lorries etc.

sec10_4i

sec10_4j

10.4j Gas cooker

sec10_4k

10.4k How many cows does your household own?

sec10_4l

10.4l How many goats do your household own?

sec10_4m

10.4m In the past year, has your household purchased a new plot of land?

sec10_4n

10.4n Do you have any other type of livestock?

sec10_4o

10_4o Which ones?

sec10_4p

10_4p How many ${sec10_4o}?

sec10_4q

10_4q Is there any other type of livestock that you have?

sec10_4r

sec10_4r Which ones?

sec10_4s

sec10_4s How many ${sec10_4r}?

sec10_5a

10.5a What are your revenues from dress sales for the month?

sec10_5b

10.5b What is the market value of your stock on hand at the end of the month?

sec10_5c

10.5c What are the variable costs of your business for this month?

sec10_5d

10.5d What are your total expenses for the month?

sec10_5e

10.5e What are your profits for the month?

sec10_5f

10.5f What are your fixed costs for this business?

sec10_5g

10.5g If you could instead work in wage work and earn 3000 KSH per month, what i

sec11_0a

11.0a Ask to see the accounts book/record book of the business

sec11_0b

11.0b Does the accounts book or record book have entries in it from the last wee

lb_

Does the record book record the following

sec11_oci

sec11_ocii

11.0cii Purchases

sec11_ociii

11.0ciii Withdrawals from the business for home use

sec11_1a

11.1a Does the business have a clear and visible sign outside the store, which i

sec11_1b

11.1b Is this sign bright and colorful, or old and faded?

sec11_2_

11.2 How many employees did you observe working in the business?

sec11_3_

11.3 Who else other than the entrepreneur was present during the interview?

sec11_4_

11.4 What is your impression of how well the respondent understood the questions

sec11_5_

11.5 What is your impression of the seriousness with which the respondent answer

sec11_6_

11.6 What is your overall impression of the preciseness/accuracy with which ques

sec11_7_

11.7 Which questions were most difficult or troubling for the respondent?

sec11_8_

11.8 Which questions were most difficult or troubling for you?

sec11_9_

11.9 Which questions interested the respondents the most?

sec11_10_

11.10 Where was the survey location?

sec11_11_

11.11 What were the conditions in which the interview took place?

sec11_12_

11.12 Inventory Photo

sec11_12a

11.12a Was photo taken?

mkt

Baseline market

market1

Market ID number

newIntStrata

Randomization Strata for Cross-cutting intervention

newIntTreat

Treatment Status for new Cross-cutting intervention

round

ss_id

ID of enumerator in short survey

ss_respondent

Did you find the respondent?

ss_consent

Hello, my name is ______________________. I am a researcher for Innovations for

ss_attrition

If we have severally looked for the respondent unsuccessfully, would you like to

ss_reasonattr

Reason for attrition

ss_reasonattr_other

ss_reasonattr_a

Could you kindly tell me the reason why you do not wish to continue with the stu

ss_reasonattr_b

Record time/date when they will be back

ss_informant

Who is supplying information about the business

Total: 685

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