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

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Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

Collection(s)

Impact Evaluation Surveys

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What is the main reason you would not hire an additional employee? (d5_11)

Data file: SLMSround4

Overview

Valid: 398

Invalid: 187

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Mean: 1.4522613065327

Standard deviation: 0.90422039402325

Type: Discrete

Start: 1432

End: 1432

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	My business does not need another worker	287	100%
2	I am not willing to pay additional wages	0
3	I cannot trust/rely on another worker	0
4	Employees are too difficult to manage	0
5	Other reason	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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