Formalization Experiment Data 2008-2011
Sri Lanka, 2008 - 2011
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LKA_2008_SLFED_v01_M
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David McKenzie, Suresh de Mel, Christopher Woodruff
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What is your most significant accomplishment in your business in the past 3 year (q5_2c)
Data file: InformalityAnon_Dec2011
Overview
Valid:
424
Type:
Discrete
Start:
700
End:
910
Width:
211
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Customer did not resettle the money he has borrowed | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| A Significations loess was caused because a large number of door-frames made according to an order was not purchased by the customer | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| A considerable loss caused by the attempts made in order to open another branch of the business in Colombo | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Accident | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Amerce by police | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| As Decrease machine, reduced profit | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| As have mobile saw (chane saw) decreased price of wood | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| As low profit business has been closed | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| As the rain, water has come in room business has been lost | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| As the training of employee service | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Back to the other place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Bad weather | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Barriers competitors | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Barriers of forest conservation and environment department | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Because of changing the business place, regular customer are not coming now | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Because of low populous | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Because of new technology have more expenses less works & less income | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Because of road development | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Because of road development has some difficulty to business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Because of road development shop has damaged | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Because of sick | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Before he sold Vegetable near the road now he selling Vegetable inside the market because of that now has less profit | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Beginning of the business environment of this sector | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Breakdown the over lock machine | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Business Instruments thievery | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Business loss | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| Business place not enough | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Business tool, Instruments thievery | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Call off the first work place, continue business for 3 months alone | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Can not do works in raining period | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Can not register | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Changed business place due to renting of business place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Changed the business place to home | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Changes the businesses place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Changes the businesses place for littlie time | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Changes the new businesses place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Climate obstacles (Rainfall | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Climate (Rainfall) | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Climate effect | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| Closed business for repairing | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Closed the business because lost of the businesses | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Competition | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Consumption is more so couldn't continue the business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Continuous heavy rain over a number of months | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Could not buy & keep vehicle parts | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Could not charge loan from customers | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Could not find employee for fair price | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Couldn't given garments for customers, the time late | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Couldn’t attend to work of employee because of emergency bother | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Couldn’t find trainers, no more honest workers | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Customers not paying money as they agreed before the promised when buying goods | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Customers returned the furniture that was made by spending a large amount of money and a considerable time was spend to repair them. | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Decline business because of hand phone | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Decrease consumer demand | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Decrease number of consumers | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Decrease number of consumers (have another service places) | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Decrease number of consumers because of they have no money | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Decrease of the cost & prices of the competitive | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Decrease of the customers due to the increscent of new businesses around the area | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Decrease of the in come in some months and the lack of adequate money to invest | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Decrease of the income when the university students declare strikes | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Decresement of the customers due to the reconstructions of the new Kandy road (including the limitation that have made with regard to the transportation on that road | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Depend on the lack of work of servants, Loss profit (Income Decrease) | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Didn't get profit | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Didn't have money to invest business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Due to the clay soil change for production of bricks couldn’t produce bricks many times | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Due to the increased day to day expenditure, decreased customers come for business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Due to the lack of good production & no promote Decrease the customers trust | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Due to the lending goods loss the business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Due to the rain as fall down trees, its harm for them | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Due to the rain production has been less | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| During last three years around this saloon others open 16 saloon because of that he has threat to his saloon | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| During past year government removed all shop in the Pavement because of that get less business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Environmental hazads (Rain) | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| Financial problems | 6 |
1.4%
|
|
| Financial problems to buy wood | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| For ill | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Free of Working, addiction to drug | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Frequently business check by PHI | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Get time to train employee | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Give good for loan and no money for business, pay tax | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Goods price gone up | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Got fire the business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Got ill | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Government don’t support the business man | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Government policy | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Hard to find workers | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| Have some difficulties because of raining | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| He want to loan but there is limit from his religion | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| He was busy more works has got lost | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| He was ill | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| He was ill & not business place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Heavy rain that lasted for two months | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Ignorant be behavior of the workers & their taking regular leaves | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Imperfection of the place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| In that area open few new hardware | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Incase of the price of goods | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Incensement of the materials | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| Incensement of the number of new three-wheelers | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Inconvenience of raw materials | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Inconvenience of tools | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Increase price of goods and low profit | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| Increased price of oil, spare parts | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Increased the raw materials | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Increased wood price | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Increasing of the competitors | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Increasing price of goods day by day | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Increscent of the price and the causing delay in obtaining crops | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Increscent of the price of food items & services and the decreasement of the transactions | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Lack of adequate amount of sand | 5 |
1.2%
|
|
| Lack of adequate amount of sand & Rainfall | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Land owner did not pay Tax and respondent occurrence to pay that money | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Lending good for customers | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Less profit & problems with shop owner before the agreement time owner asked to return the shop | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Less wood & wood price go up | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Limitation of time | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Lorry accident | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Loss of all the contracts due to an accident | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Lost of material | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Lost of the business place & limited sales | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Lost the first business place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Lost the place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Low income because of competition, Not paying loan | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Low profit | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Maintaining the business in a hired place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Modifying the business based on some unpractical ideas | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Money problem | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| More Have stated catering service | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| More Have stated joysticks business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| More other businessman | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| More taxes | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| More three wheels in parks day by day | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Motor cycle free service given by the david peris company, this centre has less works or less customers | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Municipal council has removed the construction without permission because of that had to removed the shop | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Negative impacts on the flower-pots due to rainfall | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No | 185 |
43.6%
|
|
| No Financial capital | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No any good place for business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No any money for invest to business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No any trainers | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No business place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No business place (Land own) | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No business profit to pay workers wage, increase price of row materials | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No ownership of Land, building | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No permanent building | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No profit from good, large number of shop, no paying loan | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No self own business place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No show room for goods | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No skill labourer | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Not money to invest | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Now road has one way because of that business lost | 4 |
0.9%
|
|
| Oil price gone up | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Oil price gone up & Goods price gone up | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Only doing retail trading, customers goes to shops in town | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Open a new saloon by another person in front of my saloon | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Open other new shops | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Open other new tailor shops | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Opening new same shop in that aria | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Opening new shop in that aria | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Others start the same business because of that profit getting low now | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Owner can't wait for business as mother's ill | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Owner of the hotel was tell to leave from hotel | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Owner wanted find new place, but he couldn’t find new shop | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Owner was the loan surety for other person, others didn't pay loan so, owner also can't get loan | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Paid fine for government institutes | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Paid fine for police from business profit | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Paid loan | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Pay of rent to the business place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Paying illegal money (to illegal agencies) | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| People don’t come regularly to this service | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Political Works, Decrease income because of closed road for cricket match | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Political agitation, Closed road because of cricket match | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Price increasing of the raw material | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| Rainfall | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| Reduced labours | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Resignation of two qualified & reliable workers | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Respondent ill, Fathers ill | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Road development authority has displaced the business place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Same business start by others | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| Sceacity of servants | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Selling the vehicle | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Several months had to be spent for household purposes | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Shift the business for other place | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| Shop has broken & stolen the goods | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Short financial investment | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Sold the building | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Some friends got service on friendship | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Some one fire the shop | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Started new saloon near to this saloon | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Stated new business shop, so servants went that place for works | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Stolen fish by some one | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Stolen machine by some one | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The Metal powder not enough | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The Tamil people go to their home town Jaffna | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The Tamil people go to their home town Jafna | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The difficulties caused by the police in transporting timber | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The difficulties prevailed at the place where the business was located have become obstacles to the current business. Since it is difficult to obtain BRC the business have been re-positioned at the default place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The economic lost due to the winnow and damaged the roof | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The harm by Some nabour's on their jealous | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The increased number of the workless periods during some months | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The orders has been stopped | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The owner who is in place noticed the announcement to business owner always want to go in that place | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| The shop tools has been stolen someone | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Thieves have broken into the business place and have stolen machine and other tools | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Think to closed business because of raining | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Those people who have lent the goods have not resettled them | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Transferring servicing motorbikes to dealers | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Transport problems | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| War | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| When business was in thalawathugoda people complained to police so had to shifted business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| When the rain season business has less | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| increase price of row materials | 2 |
0.5%
|
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.