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Microenterprise Survey 2005-2010, Licensed Use File

Sri Lanka, 2005 - 2010
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Reference ID
LKA_2005_SLMS_v01_M_v01_A_LUF
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48529/3d3x-gk58
Producer(s)
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
Collection(s)
Impact Evaluation Surveys
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Apr 10, 2026
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What is the nature of your business or what does your activity consist of? (q1_7)

Data file: SLMSround1

Overview

Valid: 617
Invalid: -
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 76
Mean: 23.615883306321
Standard deviation: 21.66584946466
Type: Discrete
Start: 38
End: 39
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Retail Shop 145
100%
2 Clothing Outlets 0
3 Aquariums 0
4 Fishers Shops 0
5 Fruit Shop 0
6 Horticulture 0
7 Food Sales 0
8 Vegetable Sales 0
9 Timber Sales 0
10 Motor Spare Parts 0
11 Textile Shops 0
12 Betel Sales 0
13 Incense Stick Sales 0
14 Small Indastrial house hold kits 0
15 Bathroom kits &elkel brooms 0
16 Plastics, Fancy Goods 0
17 0
18 Selling Bags 0
19 Selling Jack 0
20 Toy Shop 0
21 Hard ware 0
22 Selling Timber wood 0
23 Coconut Sales 0
24 Elkel brooms 0
25 Food Production 0
26 Brick Manufacturing 0
27 Sewing Clothes 0
28 Paper bags 0
29 Battery Manufacturing 0
30 Aluminum related Production 0
31 Batiks 0
32 Making rugs 0
33 Envelop & cotton tools 0
34 Foot ware Manufacturing 0
35 Mosquito Net Manufacturing 0
36 Spinning lace 0
37 Tea shop 0
38 Work that a beautician is engaged in 0
39 Wiring work 0
40 Fabric Painting 0
41 Bicycle repair 0
42 Wood work 0
43 Welding work 0
44 Salon 0
45 Laundry 0
46 Pipe work 0
47 TV, Radio repairs 0
48 Repairing of electrical goods 0
49 Watch repair 0
50 Key cutting 0
51 Car spray painting 0
52 Telephone repairs 0
53 Picture Framing 0
54 Education institute 0
55 Providing Food & equipment for occasions 0
56 Renting equipment for special occasions 0
57 Coir Trade 0
58 Condiment grinding stone 0
59 Making jewellary boxes 0
60 Fiber works 0
61 Vehicale reparing 0
62 Manufacturing fisheres equipment 0
63 Reparing gold & silver goods 0
64 Gem cutting 0
65 Making Antennas 0
66 Making books 0
67 Collecting cardboards & selling 0
68 Making flowerpots 0
69 Bamboo industry 0
70 Lottery sales 0
71 Shop tools 0
72 Making stringthopper basket 0
73 Selling ropes 0
74 Dryfish sales 0
75 Reparing generator 0
76 Making electric bell frames 0
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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