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SERG
Universidad de Huelva
FACTORS OF BUSINESS SUCCESS IN ANDALUSIA
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Universidad de Huelva
Schedule• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection
SERG
Universidad de Huelva
• Justification• Context• Objectives• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection
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Universidad de Huelva
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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Universidad de Huelva
• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection
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Universidad de Huelva
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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Universidad de Huelva
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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Universidad de Huelva
• 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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Universidad de Huelva
• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection
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Universidad de Huelva
– IEA-Establishment directory– Stratified sampling– Stratified criteria
• Localization• Sector• Legal form• Size (# wage workers)
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Universidad de Huelva
• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection
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Universidad de Huelva
• Study’s goals
• Maximum variance
• Technical and economic resources
• Maximum error allowed
• Confidence
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Universidad de Huelva
• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection
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Universidad de Huelva
• Self-managed questionnaire
• CATI
• WEB-page or postage
Problem: response-rate
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Universidad de Huelva
• Justification• Context• Objectives• Definitions• Units analysis• Sampling frame• Sample size• Methods for administer questionnaires• Questionnaire content• Data collection
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Universidad de Huelva
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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Thank you for your attention!