Questionnaires
Moukawalati questionnaire
For the purposes of fine-tuning the questionnaire, approximately 25 enterprises were visited in urban and rural areas. Cities and provinces included Kenitra, Tanger, Larache, Ksar Kebir, Temara, Khouribga, Fes, Safi, Casablanca, and Meknes. These enterprises represented a wide variety of sectors, thus as more was learned about the different contexts in which the programs are implemented, the questionnaires were improved to provide the best possible data. Overall, the prestests went very well and the effort put forth by the OFPPT and the ANPME to find willing entrepreneurs for the pretests was invaluable in refining the questionnaire. The questionnaire will collect the following information:
-General characteristics of the entrepreneur: age, gender, level of education, field of specialization, professional experience, employment training, enterprise creation, income, wage (if applicable) and characteristics of the entrepreneur’s household (household size, assets, consumption, etc.)
-General characteristics of the business: nature of the business, type of project (continuing/new), reason for creation, initial investment, sources of financing, type of clientele, number of potential clients, importance of competition, number of staff, internet access.
-Revenues and costs: sales information, sources of income, costs, purchase of inputs, calculations of income flows and profits.
-Competence: entrepreneurs’ knowledge and competence in the areas covered under the training such as management and accounting standards.
-Entrepreneur’s ability: tests will be performed to evaluate entrepreneurs’ ability such as the digit span recall test, word problems and pattern recognition. Risk aversion and intertemporal choice will be measured through a field lottery experiment and questions regarding the interviewee’s preference for the present.
AGR questionnaires
As outlined above two separate questionnaires were created: a coordinator questionnaire and a beneficiary questionnaire. The same process of fine-tuning and pre-testing the questionnaires was carried out as in the case of the Moukawalati. For this purpose, we visited approximatively 15 AGRs in the following regions: El Jadida, El Kalaa, Guelmim, Tata, Errachidia and Al Hoceima. The coordinator questionnaire will measure the same business outcomes as noted above, but additional data will be collected concerning the structure and function of the AGR:
-Organizational make-up: division of labor, decision-making process, shared means of production and commercialization.
The beneficiary questionnaire will collect data on the participant’s specific role within the AGR: income, diffusion of the program on the members who do not receive the training and the wellbeing of his or her household.