Productivity of the Investment Climate Private Enterprise Survey 2007

Malaysia, 2007

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Reference ID

MYS_2007_PICS_v01_M_WB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/k3bn-wx07

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World Bank, Economic Planning Unit and Department of Statistics, Prime Minister's Department, Malaysia

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys

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May 25, 2011

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Three most important obstacles for exporting (1st) (s7_5_1)

Data file: Malaysia-2007--ser data-

Overview

Valid: 194

Invalid: 109

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1211

End: 1212

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Shipping and transport costs	50	25.8%
2	Costs of obtaining visas for immigration of temporary and permanent employees	14	7.2%
3	Cost of meeting foreign legal and product standards	16	8.2%
4	Inability to produce to potential clients' standards, specifications, and schedule	20	10.3%
5	Cannot match prices of domestic competitors who export	8	4.1%
6	Cannot match prices of foreign competitors	6	3.1%
7	Foreign clients demand upgrades and changes in specifications too frequently	8	4.1%
8	Recovering payments from abroad is difficult	17	8.8%
9	Supplying the domestic market is relatively more profitable	39	20.1%
10	Costs of establishing a foreign distribution network	11	5.7%
11	Domestic content requirements	5	2.6%
Sysmiss		109

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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