MENA Entrepreneurship and Labour Market Survey (MELMS) Questionnaire

Haj Youssef, Moustafa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-1605 (2025) MENA Entrepreneurship and Labour Market Survey (MELMS) Questionnaire. [Data Collection]

Abstract

Entrepreneurship research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has been constrained by fragmented and methodologically inconsistent data. This study introduces the MENA Entrepreneurship and Labor Market Survey (MELMS), the first multi-country, micro-level dataset designed to provide comprehensive insights into entrepreneurial activity and employment dynamics across Egypt, Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Lebanon, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The dataset consists of 8,033 respondents, including both entrepreneurs and employees, and captures key variables related to demographics, financial conditions, personality traits, individual entrepreneurial orientation, and family business background. The dataset is freely available as open access through LJMU data repository, enabling scholars to engage in replicable, cross-national entrepreneurship research.

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Creators:	Haj Youssef, Moustafa
ORCID:	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-1605
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Entrepreneurship; Employment; Self-employment; Labour Market; Entrepreneurial Orientation; Arab; MENA; Open Access; Dataset; Gender; Personality; 350704 Entrepreneurship; 380111 Labour economics; 4405 Gender studies; 520503 Personality and individual differences
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.d.00000222
Division:	Liverpool Business School
Field of Research:	Commerce, management, tourism and services > Strategy, management and organisational behaviour > Entrepreneurship Economics > Applied economics > Labour economics Human society > Gender studies Psychology > Social and personality psychology > Personality and individual differences
Date Deposited:	01 Apr 2025 13:21
Last Modified:	01 Apr 2025 13:21
URI:	https://opendata.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/222
Data collection method:	Quantitative
Grant number:	TWCF-31800
Geographic coverage:	Egypt, Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Tunisia, and the UAE
Resource language:	English
Metadata language:	English
Statement on legal, ethical and access issues:	We declare that there is no conflict of interest to any party in this research. No patient consent required as no patients are being involved in this research No clinical trials Ethics approval obtained from Liverpool Business School/Liverpool John Moores University Ethics Committee. Approval number PG/23/3368. Written consent was obtained from all participants.
Collection period:	From To 1 September 2023 30 April 2024