Federal finance and statistics / National Bureau of Statistics

Small Firm Diaries 2022

Summary In Nigeria, data collection began in August 2021 and was completed in August 2022. The study was conducted in three sites: Enugu, Kaduna, and Lagos. In each, we selected low-income communities, conducted censuses of firms, and selected firms to participate to meet the study's goals in terms of size, industry and ownership. We recruited 200 firms to participate in the study from three research sites; our final sample contains 161 firms, roughly evenly spread across the research sites. In this context it is difficult to have a consistent and objective definition of firm ownership; conseq…