Informal Business Sector Survey 2016

Zimbabwe, 2017

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Reference ID

ZWE_2017_ISBS_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/hapf-ez57

Producer(s)

World Bank Group (WBG)

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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How did the largest owner acquire this business? (b4)

Data file: zimbabweinformal_2017_full_data_long_form.dta

Overview

Valid: 515

Invalid: -

Minimum: -9

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 145

End: 146

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

B.4. How did the largest owner acquire ownership of this business or activity?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know (spontaneous)	2	0.4%
1	Started the business on his/her own or with partners	470	91.3%
2	Purchased an existing business	2	0.4%
3	Joined an existing family business	18	3.5%
4	Joined an existing non-family business	7	1.4%
5	Other	16	3.1%

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.

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