Microenterprise Survey 2005-2010
Sri Lanka, 2005 - 2010
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Reference ID
LKA_2005_SLMS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
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Jan 02, 2013
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Which among the following best describe why you never considered registering? (d5_18)
Data file: SLMSround4
Overview
Valid:
313
Invalid:
272
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1439
End:
1439
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The process is too expensive | 6 |
1.9%
|
| 2 | The process is too time consuming | 20 |
6.4%
|
| 3 | The additional costs of operating as a registered business are too high | 9 |
2.9%
|
| 4 | My business is too small | 163 |
52.1%
|
| 5 | I see no benefits of bein registered | 24 |
7.7%
|
| 6 | I do not know how to register | 25 |
8%
|
| 7 | No business like mine is registered | 39 |
12.5%
|
| 8 | Registration is not essential | 19 |
6.1%
|
| 9 | Other reason | 8 |
2.6%
|
| Sysmiss | 272 |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.