Garment Supply Chain - Data Collection Overview
The Garment Supply Chain Database maps the supply chains of major garment and footwear brands across 25 production countries.
Full name of the database | WageIndicator Garment Supply Chain Database 2018 |
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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 archive | The 2018 dataset can be downloaded from Zenodo. Interested in the larger dataset from 2017 - present? Please contact us. |
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DOI code | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4783320 |
Data visuals | - |
Codebook/Manual | Van Klaveren, M. & Tijdens, K.G. (2018). Codebook WageIndicator Garment Supply Chain Database 2018. WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam. |
Long list variables | - |
Formats | SPSS |
Citation | Maarten van Klaveren, & Kea Tijdens (2021). WageIndicator Garment Supply Chain Database 2018. |