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6.3 Limitations of Enterprise Survey data for gender analysis: Gender Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Africa 2007

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Article Overview: Although the Enterprise Survey data are without doubt a rich source of information about enterprises, their activity, and their constraints, they have important limitations for investigating entrepreneurship disaggregated by sex

6.3 Limitations of Enterprise Survey data for gender analysis: Gender Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Africa 2007

Although the Enterprise Survey data are without doubt
a rich source of information about enterprises, their
activity, and their constraints, they have important limitations
for investigating entrepreneurship disaggregated
by sex.

The first problem is one of coverage. Because
only enterprises are sampled, it is impossible to analyze
the process of selection into entrepreneurship and the
effect of the constraints on the startup of enterprises,
including those owned and managed by women.

Second, sample sizes are often too small to allow an indepth
analysis of women entrepreneurs, who represent
in some cases only 10 percent or less of the sample.

Third, the relationship between ownership and management
is not thoroughly examined in these data.Yet this issue appears to be particularly relevant for women,
given that one of the more pertinent findings presented
in this chapter concerns the very high percentage of
women entrepreneurs who are part of a family enterprise.

Finally, in addition to clarifying the relationship
between ownership and management, Enterprise
Surveys would be better suited to the analysis of female
entrepreneurship if they included more questions about
the background of the entrepreneur, for example, more
information about personal characteristics and family
background, and the reasons that motivated the individual
to become an entrepreneur in the first place.

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