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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
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Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
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Impact Evaluation Surveys
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Apr 10, 2026
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In which sector are you looking for work? (bx14)

Data file: SLMSround2

Overview

Valid: 3
Invalid: 605
Minimum: 25
Maximum: 99
Mean: 56
Standard deviation: 38.431757701151
Type: Discrete
Start: 113
End: 115
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
1 Manufacturing Division
2 Sales Division
3 Human resources
4 Operations
5 Finance Division
6 Stores
7 Distributor
8 Other Division
9 Mechanical Divisin
10 Workers
11 Health Division
12 Caricale Division
13 Other Division
14 Carpentry
15 Beautycare
16 Retail Sales
17 Fish Sales
18 Fruit Sales
19 Praperies
20 Food Sales
21 Dress making
22 Cashewnut Sales
23 Driving
24 Making envelopes
25 Vegetable Sales
26 Painting
27 Bus driver
28 Tea shops
29 Sale of motor spareparts
30 Aluminum related product sales
31 Vehicle cleaning service
32 Watch repairs
33 Three wheeler repairs
34 Laundry services
35 Battery works
36 TV Radio repairs
37 Sales of botel leaves
38 Flower and plant sales
39 Key cutting
40 Welding works
41 Vehicle repairs & tinkering
42 Bicycle repair
43 Sale of bathroom units
44 Making cement blocks
45 Making stationary
46 Spray painting vehicle
47 Masonry
48 Picture framing
49 Sale of pottery
50 Operating a saloon
51 Telephone repair
52 Mushroom plantations
53 Mosquitoes
54 Renting equpment to events & functions
55 Spinning yarn
56 Collecting iron goods
57 Selling toys
58 Sell firewood
59 Aquaculture
60 Cocount sales
61 Coir Industry
62 Wire productions
63 Shoes
64 Making jewellery boxes
65 Fiber work
66 Vehicle repairs
67 Gem cutting
68 Collection/sale of cardboard
69 Making flower pots
70 cinnamon trade
71 Manufacturing bags
72 Selling ladders
73 Tube related sales
74 Making jewelry
75 Factory works
76 Production of spices
77 Drying fish
78 Making fishing equipment
79 Making electring bell frames
99 Don't know/Didn't say
999 Don't know
Sysmiss
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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