Business Survival & Exit Prediction

Connect business registration, status, workforce and financial context to study firm survival.

The record concepts include registration / closure dates, survival status, workforce change, business lifecycle, ownership / founder context, workforce history and employment spells. Distinguish recorded exits from incomplete business observation. Examine workforce and financial context before assessment. Explore event timing across defined business groups.

This dataset is prepared to order. Choose the city, date range and required scope; the accepted order defines the population, final fields, formats and delivery.

Onboarded city options

Nairobi (Kenya) · Lagos (Nigeria)

Custom city requests

African Major Cities · Additional cities require availability, scope and quote confirmation.

Data type

Synthetic

Connected domains

Business, Employment, Finance, Demographics

Catalogue structure

Longitudinal

Key features

Record concepts for your order-specific extract.

Who it is for

• ML teams
• economists
• business researchers
• development agencies

Entities represented

Business-level

This identifies the entities described by the catalogue. The analytical row grain, eligibility, keys and dates are agreed for your extract.

Explore business exits using earlier workforce and financial histories.

Record concepts for your extract

• registration / closure dates
• survival status
• workforce change
• business lifecycle
• ownership / founder context
• workforce history
• employment spells

The agreed specification defines the final columns, keys, relationships and observation period for your order.

Define exit dates, eligible active businesses and observation coverage; evaluate survival probabilities and preserve firms still active at the cutoff.

Proposed questions for your custom order

1. Can a business's prior workforce and financial history predict whether it records an exit within 12 months and how long it remains active?
2. Which businesses remain active over an agreed prediction horizon?
3. Which recorded changes precede a business exit?
4. How does survival prediction differ by sector, firm age and size?

Proposed research and analytical applications

• Prediction prototyping
• Feature exploration
• Temporal validation
• Cohort comparison

Study and modeling guidance

Information available at prediction or evaluation time

Use only evidence valid and available at the agreed anchor; do not use later outcomes as features.

Comparison and evaluation

Specify comparable cohorts or held-out evaluation before reporting results.

Incomplete observation

Agree follow-up and retain incomplete observation as censored or unknown.

Data generation

FCTE synthetic city engine

Data classification

Synthetic

FCTE generation methods and published city/domain checks provide source context. The order defines the final extract and the release-specific checks, documentation and limitations supplied with it.

Research protocols to agree

Known limitations

• Synthetic records describe generated scenarios; they do not establish observed population prevalence or real-world causal effects.

Catalogue base price

$595 USD

Price basis

Base price per selected city

Availability

Prepared after order

The displayed catalogue amount is a base price per selected city. Your requested dates, population, fields, formats and usage rights determine the agreed scope and final quote. Applicable published discounts and taxes are confirmed with that quote.

Your prepared package

Your order confirms the data files, documentation, evidence, examples and release controls included in the prepared package.

• Agreed data extract
• Schema and field documentation
• Release-specific evidence and limitations
• Agreed loading or analysis examples
• Licence, manifest, checksums and delivery note

SD_RESEARCH_DATASET/
├── data/
│   ├── business_records.parquet
│   ├── employment_records.parquet
│   ├── finance_records.parquet
│   └── citizens.parquet
├── tasks/
│   ├── task_definition.yaml
│   ├── train.parquet
│   ├── validation.parquet
│   └── test.parquet
├── evaluation/
│   ├── baseline_model.py
│   ├── metrics.json
│   └── example_notebook.ipynb
├── documentation/
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── DATA_DICTIONARY.csv
│   ├── SCHEMA.md
│   └── METHODOLOGY.md
├── evidence/
│   ├── CERTIFICATION.json
│   ├── VALIDATION_REPORT.pdf
│   └── KNOWN_LIMITATIONS.md
├── MANIFEST.json
├── CHECKSUMS.sha256
└── LICENSE.pdf

Delivery process

Confirm the cities, date range, records, formats, rights and price in writing. The order-specific extract is then prepared and supplied under the agreed payment and delivery conditions.

One secure download package for the agreed release and licensed entity.

Delivery timing, access expiry, formats and prerequisites are confirmed in the accepted order.

Support, refreshes, future releases, hosting and APIs are included only when expressly ordered.

Data Licensing Agreement · 2026-10

A non-exclusive, non-transferable licence for the named customer within the accepted scope and duration.

Permitted use

Internal research, development, testing and analytics within the accepted order.

Model training

Model training, external applications, commercial distribution and access by other legal entities must be expressly addressed in the order.

Redistribution

Raw or substantially reconstructable data cannot be resold, published or redistributed without separate written authorization.

Attribution

Preserve release provenance and applicable third-party notices. Published outputs must identify the data as synthetic.