ReadMe for Compliance with mandatory reporting of ESRC Grant ES/L012480/1 for the project “Inside the Production Function - The Effect of Financial Contracts on Growing Firms' Technology Use. Evidence from a field experiment in Uganda , Madestam, A.; Loiacono, F.; Gulesci, S., Stryjan M.

2017-12-22

This readme file describes the data files and supplementary files accompanying the above publication.  For any further queries please contact miristry@bgu.ac.il.

The following data files are kept in a repository at Stockholm University and is accessible 
at https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.5734887. 

All the .dta files are in Stata 14 format (version 118), Read and Write. For information about how to open and use .dta files, see https://www.stata.com/ 

1) The raw data raw_data.dta.
This is the output from the baseline, diaries and end-line surveys, merged at the level of the respondent (idclient). 

Additional explanation of the variables is included in the supplementary codebook Variables_raw_CODEBOOK.xlsx, or the corresponding csv files: 
Variables_raw_CODEBOOK_all.csv (contains the variables that appear in all survey waves)
Variables_raw_CODEBOOK_bl_el.csv (contains the variables that appear in Baseline and Endline surveys)
Variables_raw_CODEBOOK_bl_only.csv (contains the variables that appear in Baseline surveys only)
Variables_raw_CODEBOOK_diary_el.csv (contains the variables that appear in Diaries and Endline surveys)
Variables_raw_CODEBOOK_el_only.csv (contains the variables that appear in Endline surveys only)

and in the questionnaires. 

2) The created variables: created_data.dta.
This is a dataset of variables created based on the data in the surveys. Additional explanation of the variables is included in the supplementary codebook Variables_created_CODEBOOK.xls (or Variables_created_CODEBOOK.csv), and the questionnaires.

3) Experiment data and Administrative data: treatment_data.dta, admin_data.dta.
This is data on the treatment status of each respondent and administrative variables related to location of the respondent’s firms and the setup of the experiment. Additional information is included in the corresponding codebooks Variables_treatment_CODEBOOK.xlsx and Variables_admin_CODEBOOK.xlsx (or Variables_treatment_CODEBOOK.csv and Variables_admin_CODEBOOK.csv).

The metadata consists in the following documents, uploaded to the ReShare repository (the UK data service’s repository for archiving and sharing research data).
the UK data service.  

4) Codebooks: Variables_raw_CODEBOOK.xlsx; Variables_created_CODEBOOK.xlsx; Variables_treatment_CODEBOOK.xlsx and Variables_admin_CODEBOOK.xlsx - see points 1-3 above for further detail.

All the codebooks are available both in xlsx format and in csv format. The csv format of the raw variables codebook is divided into five separate files, each file corresponding to a sheet in the Variables_raw_CODEBOOK.xlsx. 

5) Questionnaires: Baseline, Endline and Business Diary. 

6) Do file code for deflation of monetary variables, saved in the file Deflation.rtf

7) User manual: Report_ESRC_Documentation.pdf.
The user manual gives an overview of the study purpose and context and the data collection process, explains the structure of the data and how the different data sets can be merged and used.