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Wholesale and retail traders in Nigeria
Survey Type
IGC/IPA Survey on Firms, Workers, and Farmers
Country
Nigeria
Date of data collection
18 April-8 May 2020
Category
Firms
Researchers
Hakeem Bishi, Shelby Grossman, Meredith Startz
Survey organisation
Lagos Trader Project
Number of observations
764
This dataset collects information from 764 wholesale and retail traders in Lagos, Nigeria. The traders surveyed buy and sell consumer goods such as clothing, electronics, toiletries, and homewares. They operate from permanent physical premises.
A typical trader in Lagos is male (73%), 42 years old, and has been in business for 14 years. As of 2017, on average, traders had 1.3 shops and 1.2 paid and unpaid workers. In February 2020, before the pandemic hit Nigeria, the average weekly revenue of the traders surveyed was just under NGN 400,000 (approximately USD 1,030).
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