Garment Supply Chain - Data Collection Overview

 General Database Information

Full name

WageIndicator Garment Supply Chain Database 2018

Aims

The project aimed to build an extensive database covering the supply chains of 24 major garment and footwear-selling firms or brands drawing on useful recent information they disclosed on the Internet. The companies covered are: 14 European firms/brands: Adidas; Amer Sports; ASOS; Bestseller; C&A; Debenhams; G-Star; H&M; KappAhl; M&S; Pentland; Primark; Puma, and Tesco; seven US-based firms/brands: Gap Inc; Levi Strauss; New Balance; Nike; PVH Corp; Under Armour, and VF Corp; 2 Japanese brand/firms: ASICS and Uniqlo; 1 mixed Asian/European firm/brand: Esprit.

Data used for...

Research

Countries covered

25 garment production countries, namely: 16 Asian countries: Bangladesh; Cambodia; China; India; Indonesia; South Korea; Malaysia; Myanmar; Pakistan; Philippines; Singapore; Sri Lanka, Taiwan; Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam; 4 African countries: Egypt; Ethiopia; Morocco, and Tunisia; 5 Latin-American countries: El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico, and Peru.

Languages

English

Data collection method

Desk research

Data time frame

2018

Data updating policy

Data collection is closed

Sampling Frame

The largest 24 garment and footwear-selling firms or brands worldwide.

Nr. of Observations

8,100 factories

Data Access

Data archive

Downloadable from Zenodo

DOI code

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4783320

Data visuals

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Codebook/Manual

Van Klaveren, M. & Tijdens, K.G. (2018). Codebook WageIndicator Garment Supply Chain Database 2018. WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam.

Long list variables

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Formats

SPSS

Citation

Maarten van Klaveren, & Kea Tijdens (2021). WageIndicator Garment Supply Chain Database 2018.

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