The data consist of the follow-up survey from individuals owning enterprises in the control group of Martínez et al. (2013). The original sample consists of beneficiaries of Chile’s anti-poverty program (Chile Solidario) who applied to a government microenterpreneurship support program in 2010, and who were located in the metropolitan area of Santiago. 566 individuals were assigned to the control group. The followup survey, which measured business practices, took place between October and November 2011. We use the sample of 158 individuals in the control group who were found to be running enterprises in this followup survey. Only one round of business practice data are available, and we use time-invariant characteristics of the business owners from the baseline survey coupled with the outcome and business practice data from the follow-up survey.

# _Ghana_

The sample consists of 335 applicants to a business plan competition in Accra and Kumasi, described in Fafchamps and Woodruff (2014). Baseline data were collected in 2010, and then two rounds of follow-up surveys were collected in July-August 2011, and August-September 2012, approximately one and two years after the baseline. 257 individuals were surveyed in the first follow-up, and 279 in the second follow-up. The survey did not collect detailed survival data, and so we only use the time dimension of this data for examining the persistence of business practices over time.

# _Kenya_

The sample comes from an ongoing evaluation of a business training program for women in four counties of Kenya: Kakamega and Kisii in the Western region, and Embu and Kitui in the Eastern region. In each county a census was taken of market centers, and then a screening was done to select a sample in which the business did not have more than 3 employees; the business had profits in the past week between 0 and 4000 Kenyan Shillings (KSH) (1 US Dollar averaged approximately 85 KSH over the survey period); sales in the past week less than or equal to 50,000 KSH; and the individual had at least one year of schooling (Diwan et al, 2014). The survey is therefore representative of microenterprises of this size run by women in these four counties. The baseline survey took place between June and November 2013, and consisted of 3,537 individuals. The survey is missing responses on business practices F5-F8 (financial statements) in the baseline, because the question only allowed for one response, rather than a yes/no for each type of financial statement (70.2% report not having any accounting statement prepared).A follow-up survey was conducted one year later, with survival data collected for 3,446 individuals and follow-up business practices data for 2,860 individuals.

# _Mexico_

This survey is the baseline of a randomized-controlled trial to evaluate the impact of "Mujeres Moviendo a Mexico", a large-scale business training program for female micro-entrepreneurs funded by INADEM ("Instituto Nacional del Emprendedor Mexicano") and implemented by the NGO Crea Comunidades de Emprendedores Sociales. The survey was conducted in 2014 and consists of a representative sample of female-run firms with 5 or fewer employees and less than 4 million Mexican pesos in annual turnover operating in eight urban areas in Mexico: Aguascalientes, Dolores Hidalgo, Irapuato, León, Mexico City, Querétaro, San Juan del Río and Toluca. The data are described further in Calderon et al. (2015). The data consists of 10,275 individuals. The business practice questions asked did not include R2 (keeping a record of every purchase and sale.

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