The World Bank Enterprise Survey: Manufacturing includes 5 items from the World Bank Enterprise Survey-a firm-level multi-country survey of the private sector. This measure assesses the gender distribution among company employees and management in the manufacturing sector (similar items are asked of service industry firms). Navigational aspects (i.e. skip-out patterns and next question sequences) have not been included on this page but can be viewed on the original questionnaire located here.
Geographies Tested: Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Antigua and Barbuda,Argentina,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Bangladesh,Barbados,Belarus,Belize,Benin,Bhutan,Bolivia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Brazil,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Cape Verde,Central African Republic,Chad,Chile,China,Colombia,Democratic Republic of the Congo,Republic of the Congo,Costa Rica,Cote d'Ivoire,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Djibouti,Dominica,Dominican Republic,Ecuador,Egypt,El Salvador,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Fiji,Gabon,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Greece,Grenada,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Hungary,India,Indonesia,Iran,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Jamaica,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Korea, South,Kosovo,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Lithuania,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malawi,Malaysia,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Mauritius,Mexico,Micronesia, Federated States of,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar (Burma),Namibia,Nepal,Nicaragua,Niger,Nigeria,Pakistan,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Paraguay,Peru,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Samoa,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovakia,Slovenia,Solomon Islands,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname,Sweden,Syria,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,The Bahamas,The Gambia,Togo,Tonga,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Uganda,Ukraine,Uruguay,Uzbekistan,Vanuatu,Venezuela,Vietnam,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe
Populations Included: Female, Male
Age Range: Adults
1.Amongst the owners of the firm, are there any females?
Response Options:
Yes - 1
No - 2
Don’t know - 9
2.What percentage of the firm is owned by females?
Response Options:
______ %
Don’t know - 9
3.Is the Top Manager female?
Response Options:
Yes - 1
No - 2
Don’t know - 9
4.At the end of fiscal year [insert last complete fiscal year], in this establishment how many permanent, full-time workers in each of the following categories were female?
5.How many full-time seasonal or temporary workers during fiscal year [insert last complete fiscal year], were female?
Response Options:
______ [NUMBER]
Don’t know - 9
Not Applicable
The World Bank. (2018). The World Bank Enterprise Surveys: Manufacturing Module. https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/methodology
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