Street vending dataset
Description
The dataset serve two articles about determinants of street vending. It shows measurable items for some constructs as street vending (SV1-5), poverty (PO1-5), Lack of education (LE1-5), immigration (IM1-5), unemployment (UN1-5), lack of microfinance (LM1-5), urban culture (UC1-5), resistance (RE1-5), and low-income consumption (LC1-5). A total of 425 responses were gathered, all of which were complete and bias free, and thus usable. The data collected has quite represented the public attitudes in Baghdad, a capital city of Iraq, which experiences the pervasiveness of street vending. The process of collecting the data took three months, from the beginning of September to the end of November 2018.
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All observed items were considered as reflective indicators. Each construct had five variables. All items were measured using a seven-point Likert scale type. The format of the scale was 1: strongly disagree, 2: disagree, 3: somewhat disagree, 4: neither agree nor disagree, 5: somewhat agree, 6: agree, and 7: strongly agree. The questionnaire was mainly promoted online, and respondents were invited to take the survey through hyperlinks that were sent to their email addresses, and via social media especially Facebook. Our target respondents were university students at the Middle Technical University, Baghdad, Iraq, in addition to administrators, academics, and their relatives and friends in the whole city and from different backgrounds.