Business Register Survey Tanzania Mainland 2011-2012, First Round
Tanzania, 2012
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TZA-NBS-BR-2011-V01
Business Register Survey Tanzania Mainland 2011-2012
First Round
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| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Tanzania | TZA |
Enterprise Survey [en/oth]
The 2011/12 Business Register (BR) for Tanzania Mainland is the first of its kind since it has integrated and translated the current and future demands of local and international data producers and users.
The main objective of the survey was to improve the CRE by collecting necessary inputs that will fulfill the current demands of our stakeholders in their daily activities. Other specific objectives were:
(i) to harmonise all establishment directories produced by other data producers in order to have a National Statistical Directory (NSD) of Establishments;
(ii) to improve the CRE dataset by adding new variables including initial capital investments and their sources, owners and their nationalities, business categories, size of the business (micro, small, medium, large) and annual turnover;
(iii) to improve awareness on the importance of BR among key stakeholders by using Information Communication Technology (ICT) and other means of communications; and
(iv) to ensure the proper use of the BR to all data producers and data users as well as public at large.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Establishments
Version
Verson 1.0 (November, 2014)
2012-12
Scope
The implementation of the 2012 Baseline survey is an important exercise since the information collected will be used to improve the CRE in order to fulfill the current demands of our stakeholders. The baseline findings will be used to develop a database of existing establishments in the country. Unlike, the current CRE, the produced BR will have establishments which are registered and active. All establishments with one and above employees will be included in the 2012 Business Register of Tanzania Mainland.
The updated Business Register (BR) Report will provide quality and adequate sampling frame for establishments' based survey. This will facilitate planning and decision making within the government, the business community, Institutions and other stakeholders. Moreover, will stimulate research and inform public debate through the provision of relevant, reliable and timely statistics and a quality statistical service in general.
| Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Forests & Forestry | World Bank |
| Food (production, crisis) | World Bank |
| Education | World Bank |
| Primary Education | World Bank |
| Secondary Education | World Bank |
| Tertiary Education | World Bank |
| Vocational Education | World Bank |
| Energy | World Bank |
| Coal | World Bank |
| Electricity | World Bank |
| Hydropower | World Bank |
| Mining | World Bank |
| Oil & Gas | World Bank |
| Health | World Bank |
Coverage
Tanzania Mainland Regions
Establishments with fixed premises which fall under the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) Revision 4
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) | Government of Tanzania |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| World Bank | Funding |
| The UK Department for International Development | Funding |
| National Bureau of Statistics | Funding |
Sampling
A set of questions were designed to capture data and information for each establishment as required, in order to have unbiased results, a sample of administrative units were drawn per region. The selection of these administrative units (wards) used a purposive and random sampling as follows:
Stage One: selection of all pure urban wards in regions and Dar es Salaam was done purposively;
Stage Two: selection of 50 percent of mixed wards in regions was done randomly; and
Stage Three: selection of 25 percent of rural wards in regions of Tanzania Mainland was done randomly.
100 percent of Dar es Salaam region;
100 percent of all pure urban wards;
50 percent of mixed wards; and
25 percent of rural wards.
No deviations
No response rate
No weighing
Survey instrument
A survey instrument (structured questionnaire) was designed to provide the required information regarding: a name of the establishment; mailing Address e.g. Box number, Telephone number, fax and e-mail number; physical location of the establishment; Date of its first Operation; Main Activity and Auxiliary Activities of the Establishment; Type of Ownership; Nationality of owners; Others include, Volume of sales or value of output (turnover), Initial Capital investment, Sources of capital, registration status; size of the business and number of persons employed (engaged) by sex.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-04 | 2012-06 | Eight weeks |
| Start date | End date | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-04-03 | 2015-04-14 | Three years |
- Face-to-face [f2f]
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Bureau Of Statistics | Government of Tanzania |
A total of 14 overall senior supervisors, 21 regional supervisors and 115 enumerators were trained for 7 days to understand the survey instruments (manuals, questionnaires and structured questions). Twenty one teams were eventually formed after completion of the training.
Data collection was began in April, 2012 and completed in June, 2012. Enumerators were assigned according to the expected total number of establishments in the region, of which Dar es Salaam region had highest number of enumerators (20 enumerators), followed by regions with 5 enumerators each (Dodoma, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Morogoro, Tanga, Mtwara, Ruvuma, Iringa, Mbeya, Tabora, Kigoma, Shinyanga, Kagera, Mwanza and Mara) and those with 4 enumearators each were Pwani, Lindi, Singida, Rukwa and Manyara regions. In addition to that, a team of 14 senior staff from Headquarters formed a national quality control team.
Data processing
Checking for invalid codes of ISIC Rev.4 and other invalid codes
Data appraisal
No Sampling error reported
No other Forms of data Appraisal
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Bureau of Statistics | Government of Tanzania | www.nbs.go.tz | dg@nbs.go.tz |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | Confidentiality of respondents is guaranteed by section 20 of Tanzania Statistics act number 1 of 2002. Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have formally agreed: 1. All identifying information such as the name and address of respondent has been removed; and 2. The information is disclosed in a manner that is not likely to enable the identification of the particular person or undertaking or business to which it relates. 3. Not attempt to identify any particular person or undertaking or business; 4. Use of information for research or statistically purpose only; 5. Not to disclose the information to any other person, organization 6. When required by the Director General, return all documents made available to him to the Director General; 7. Comply with the directions given by the Director General relating to the records. 8. Every person involved in the research or statistical project for which information is disclosed pursuant to this section shall make the declaration of secrecy set out in the first schedule. |
Tanzania NBS considered three levels of accessibility:
- Public use files, accessible by all
- Licensed datasets, accessible under certain conditions
- Datasets only accessible on location, for certain datasets
The dataset has been anonymized and available as a public use dataset. It accessible to all for statistical and research purposes only, under the following terms and conditions:
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The data and other material will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organization without the written agreement of the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics.
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The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only. They will be used solely for reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations.
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No attempt will be made to produce links among dataset provided by the National Bureau of Statistics, or among data from the (National Bureau of Statistics) and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations
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No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and no use will be made of the identify of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery would immediately be reported to the National Bureau of Statistics.
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Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics will cite the source of data in accordance with the Citation Requirement provided with each dataset.
The data user shall acknowledge that any available intelectual property rights, including copyright and the data of Business Register 2011/12 Version 1.0 are owned by the National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania
Disclaimer and copyrights
"The user of the data should acknowledges that, Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics is the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences without a written agreement from the National Bureau of Statistics"
(c) 2014, National Bureau of Statistics
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director General | National Bureau of Statistics | dg@nbs.go.tz | www.nbs.go.tz |
| Manager, IT Department | National Bureau of Statistics | it.nbs@nbs.go.tz | www.nbs.go.tz |
| Focal Person | National Bureau of Statistics | nada@nbs.go.tz | www.nbs.go.tz |
Metadata production
DDI-TZA-NBS-BR-2011-2012-V1.0
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| National Bureau of Statistics | Government of Tanzania | Metadata producer |
| Accelerated Data Program | PARIS21 | Review of the metadata |
2014-11-21
Metadata version
Verson 1.0 (November, 2014)