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

Producer(s)

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

Collection(s)

Impact Evaluation Surveys

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What is the main reason you did not work last week? (b2_2)

Data file: SLMSround2

Overview

Valid: 22

Invalid: 586

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 7

Mean: 4.1363636363636

Standard deviation: 2.3963355863535

Type: Discrete

Start: 266

End: 266

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Vacation or break	1	100%
2	Sickness	0
3	End of work or sale season	0
4	Arragement related to business, personal life, or problems with authorities	0
5	Lack of money or customers	0
6	Lack or malfunction of vehicles or machinery	0
7	Other	0
Sysmiss		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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