serg universidad de huelva factors of business success in andalusia

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FACTORS OF BUSINESS SUCCESS IN ANDALUSIA

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Schedule• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection

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• Justification• Context• Objectives• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection

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Justification and context

• Preliminary evaluation of the SICIEA reveals: some “niches”

• One of them is related with detection and monitoring factors of success

• Current statistics operations not allow to control these “dimensions”,

• Need to design and implement new statistical operations as a way to complete and improve our current Entrepreneurship Indicator System (SICIEA)

• In this context: Factors of Business Success Survey for Andalusia

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• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection

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Survey objectives• Contribute to the description of the economic

behaviour of new entrepreneurs in Andalusia during the first five years of existence

• Create a longitudinal dataset that tracks new businesses over five years

• Create a public use data source• Inform policy decisions and academic analysis• In addition: Comparability (Cross-sectional

objective included in the Andalusian Statistical Plan)

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This survey focuses in four aspects:

1. Profile of the entrepreneur

2. Start-up conditions

3. The enterprise's actual situation

4. Future plans

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• Justification• Context• Objectives• Units analysis• Definitions• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection

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• Establishment

• Firm

• Success

• Main activity

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• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection

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Units analysis

• New business: – New firms in t – First wave in t+1, second in t+3,…– Andalusia– Panel during five years

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• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection

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– IEA-Establishment directory– Stratified sampling– Stratified criteria

• Localization• Sector• Legal form• Size (# wage workers)

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• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection

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• Study’s goals

• Maximum variance

• Technical and economic resources

• Maximum error allowed

• Confidence

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• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection

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• Self-managed questionnaire

• CATI

• WEB-page or postage

Problem: response-rate

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• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection

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Data-checking and variables for classification

Employer Characteristics Initial Conditions Start-up difficulties Current situation Forecasts

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SICIEA EUROSTAT KAUFFMAN SME

Scope Andalusia UE US UK

Classification variables

New firm ● ● ● ●

Starting date ● ● ● ●

Activity ● ● ● ●

Entrepreneur characteristics

Age ● ● ● ●

Nationality ● ● ● ●

Gender ● ● ● ●

Educational Attainment ● ● ● ●

Previous activity ●

Previous branch experience

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SICIEA EUROSTAT KAUFFMAN SME

Scope Andalusia UE US UK

Start-up conditions

# initial promoters ● ●

Reasons ● ● ●

Initial investment ● ●

Finance sources ● ● ●

# employees ● ● ●

Employees recruitment ●

Product lines ● ●

Start-up difficulties

Start up difficulties ● ●

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SICIEA EUROSTAT KAUFFMAN SME

Scope Andalusia UE US UK

Current situation

Professional management ●

Competitive advantages ● ●

Sales ● ●

Market participation ● ● ●

Market’s characteristics ● ●

Debt level ● ●

Loss/profit ● ●

Subsisidies ● ●

# employees ● ● ●

Employees turnover ● ●

Networks ●

Localization ● ● ●

Patents ● ●

Difficulties in business development ● ● ●

Forecasts ● ●

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• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection

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Identification

Year t Year t+1 Year t+2

Collaboration request postage

Telephonic verification(collaboration request)

Questionnaire postage Sample

element substitutions (with same characteristi

cs)Questionnaires

Telephonic verification(Questionnaire reception)

Data collection

Data (Coherence or validity

control)

Gratitude forcollaboration

Recording

Recorded data t+1

Survival checking

Questionnaires postage

Register elimination

activity

Questionnaire

Telephonic verification(Collaboration request)

Data collection

Data (Coherence or validity

control)

Gratitude for collaboration

Recording

Recorded data t+3

Elimination?

Database

Sample unit elimination

Survival checking

Questionnaires

postage

Register elimination

activityQuestionnaires

Telephonic checkingQuestionnaire reception

Data collection

Data (Coherence or validity

control)

Gratitude for collaboration

Recording

Recoded data t+6

Elimination?

Sample units elimination

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