Understanding youth entrepreneurship

Defining and measuring youth entrepreneurship is complex. There is no internationally agreed definition of youth entrepreneurship, and data gaps make it difficult to obtain reliable information on youth entrepreneurs in developing countries. This chapter focuses on definition and measurement issues and their importance for our understanding of youth entrepreneurship. In particular, it presents the operational definitions and survey data used for the empirical analysis conducted in four selected developing countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Peru and Viet Nam.