Business Registration in Malawi Experimental Data and Replication Files 2011-2015
Malawi, 2011 - 2015
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Reference ID
MWI_2011_BRIEL_v01_M
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David McKenzie
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Sep 27, 2018
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- Data files
- Training_ALL_anonymized
- Baseline_Malawi_clean_September_2018_BS
- First_followup_Malawi_clean_September_2018_F
- Fourth_followup_Malawi_clean_September_2018_F4
-
reasons for
people that did
not take
BRC_edited - Second_followup_Malawi_clean_September_2018_F2
- strata_llw_&_bt
- survey_completion
- Third_followup_Malawi_clean_September_2018_F3
- BRIE_finalpanel_Allfollowups_SEP2018
What are the top 2 challenges(in order of importance) that you currently face in (s12q5a)
Data file: Baseline_Malawi_clean_September_2018_BS
Overview
Valid:
2955
Invalid:
47
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
3640
End:
3641
Width:
2
Range:
-9 - 77
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -9 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| -8 | Don't know | 0 |
0%
|
| -7 | Notappl | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Finding right staff | 117 |
4%
|
| 2 | Retaining staff | 23 |
0.8%
|
| 3 | Low demand | 508 |
17.2%
|
| 4 | Demand exist but difficult to attract | 116 |
3.9%
|
| 5 | Customer care | 25 |
0.8%
|
| 6 | Getting customersto pay intime | 104 |
3.5%
|
| 7 | Too much competition | 346 |
11.7%
|
| 8 | Limited knowledge of market condition | 50 |
1.7%
|
| 9 | Lack of technical experience or skills specific to the product or service offered | 15 |
0.5%
|
| 10 | Compiling a bussiness plan | 11 |
0.4%
|
| 11 | Finding right suppliers | 104 |
3.5%
|
| 12 | Poor quality inputs | 21 |
0.7%
|
| 13 | Finding right supplier | 30 |
1%
|
| 14 | Managing a budget | 8 |
0.3%
|
| 15 | Difficulty managing finances:cash flow | 65 |
2.2%
|
| 16 | Accessing credit | 253 |
8.6%
|
| 17 | Registering bussiness | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 18 | Complying other bussiness regulations | 4 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | Legal environment | 7 |
0.2%
|
| 20 | Confiscationor destroying of property by authorities | 6 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | Taxes | 4 |
0.1%
|
| 22 | Prohibitive rent | 7 |
0.2%
|
| 23 | Own poor healthy | 6 |
0.2%
|
| 24 | Balancing home and work life or separating household and bussiness affairs | 16 |
0.5%
|
| 25 | Distribution/delivery of products to customers | 9 |
0.3%
|
| 26 | Finding larger markets | 34 |
1.2%
|
| 27 | Limited resources to pay employee salaries | 6 |
0.2%
|
| 28 | Lack of equipment and inputs | 151 |
5.1%
|
| 29 | Storage and inventories management | 12 |
0.4%
|
| 30 | Spoilage | 27 |
0.9%
|
| 31 | Security and theft prevention (premises,products) | 53 |
1.8%
|
| 32 | Personal security | 18 |
0.6%
|
| 33 | Sexual harassment | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 34 | Poor infrastructure and utilities (electricity,water,gas) | 70 |
2.4%
|
| 35 | Communications | 4 |
0.1%
|
| 36 | Corruption and bribes | 8 |
0.3%
|
| 37 | Networking | 4 |
0.1%
|
| 38 | Difficult planning due to contract uncertainities | 8 |
0.3%
|
| 39 | Macroeconomic conditions(inflation,exchange rate etc) | 512 |
17.3%
|
| 40 | Limited knowledge on how to import/export | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 41 | Exposure to danger or hazardous materials/elements during production or packaging | 1 |
0%
|
| 42 | Floods,landslides and other natural disasters | 1 |
0%
|
| 43 | Fire or arson | 7 |
0.2%
|
| 44 | Other(specify) | 23 |
0.8%
|
| 45 | LACK OF CAPITA | 60 |
2%
|
| 46 | HIGH COSTS OF INPUTS | 76 |
2.6%
|
| 47 | NO CHALENGES YET | 18 |
0.6%
|
| 77 | Skip | 0 |
0%
|
| Sysmiss | 47 |
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.