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Quantitative Service Delivery Survey in Education 2003

Bangladesh, 2003
Reference ID
BGD_2003_QSDS_v01_M
Producer(s)
World Bank
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Apr 25, 2019
Last modified
Apr 25, 2019
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days of inventory (d16)

Data file: Senegal-2007--full data-1

Overview

Valid: 378
Invalid: 247
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Just prior to receiving a delivery of your most important input, how many days of inventory (days of production)/does your establishment typically have on hand?
Categories
Value Category
-9 Don't know
-8 Refused to answer
-7 Not applicable
-6 Still in process
-5 Application denied
-4 Skipped
-3 Not provided
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Sysmiss
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
Days of inventory of main input. The purpose of this question is to assess the efficiency in the supply chain. When firms have to maintain a high level of stock, because they cannot rely on a predictable supply of inputs, this is a source of economic inefficiency. Inversely, if supplies of the main input can be relied upon to be easily available, firms will keep low levels of stock on hand.

The main input is the input that accounts for the highest value among all inputs. It is not the input for which stock is maintained the longest. For example, if a company makes shirts, the most important input is the cloth, not the buttons and thread, though the establishment may actually keep a 90 day supply of buttons on hand and only a 30 day stock of cloth.

Days of inventory should be calculated as the number of days of normal production capacity before running out of stock.
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