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

Collection(s)

Impact Evaluation Surveys

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Which among the following best describe why you never considered registering? (d5_18)

Data file: SLMSround4

Overview

Valid: 313

Invalid: 272

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 4.7667731629393

Standard deviation: 1.7338766784868

Type: Discrete

Start: 1439

End: 1439

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	The process is too expensive	6	100%
2	The process is too time consuming	0
3	The additional costs of operating as a registered business are too high	0
4	My business is too small	0
5	I see no benefits of bein registered	0
6	I do not know how to register	0
7	No business like mine is registered	0
8	Registration is not essential	0
9	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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