CSAE Tanzania RPED+TMES Data

RPED

Dataset, Documentation, Programs, and Publications

This is a comprehensive panel data set on a sample of firms within the Tanzanian manufacturing sector. This data was collected over the period 1993 to 1995 in a series of three annual surveys, referred to here as Waves I – III, as part of the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) organised by the World Bank and funded by bilateral donor governments. The data was collected by a team from the Helsinki School of Economics, in collaboration with the Tanzanian Confederation of Industries and the University of Dar es Salaam.

TMES

Dataset, Documentation, Programs, and Publications

A fourth wave of the Tanzania Manufacturing Enterprise Survey (TMES) was conducted in late 1999, involving a team of researchers from CSAE and the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) in Dar es Salaam. This succeeded in revisiting 89 of the remaining RPED firms (see below) and interviewing an additional 103 replacement firms. Firm-level production and accounts data was obtained for 1996, 1997 and 1998, thus giving a maximum number of six observations per firm over the four waves of the survey. This dataset is directly comparable to and can be linked with Waves 1-3 of the RPED available above.