Microenterprise Survey 2005-2010
Sri Lanka, 2005 - 2010
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Reference ID
LKA_2005_SLMS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
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What is the nature of your business or what does your activity consist of? (q1_7)
Data file: SLMSround1
Overview
Valid:
617
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
38
End:
39
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 76
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Retail Shop | 145 |
23.5%
|
| 2 | Clothing Outlets | 15 |
2.4%
|
| 3 | Aquariums | 5 |
0.8%
|
| 4 | Fishers Shops | 24 |
3.9%
|
| 5 | Fruit Shop | 7 |
1.1%
|
| 6 | Horticulture | 7 |
1.1%
|
| 7 | Food Sales | 49 |
7.9%
|
| 8 | Vegetable Sales | 10 |
1.6%
|
| 9 | Timber Sales | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 10 | Motor Spare Parts | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | Textile Shops | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 12 | Betel Sales | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 13 | Incense Stick Sales | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 14 | Small Indastrial house hold kits | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 15 | Bathroom kits &elkel brooms | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 16 | Plastics, Fancy Goods | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 17 | 2 |
0.3%
|
|
| 18 | Selling Bags | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 19 | Selling Jack | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 20 | Toy Shop | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | Hard ware | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 22 | Selling Timber wood | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 23 | Coconut Sales | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 24 | Elkel brooms | 6 |
1%
|
| 25 | Food Production | 38 |
6.2%
|
| 26 | Brick Manufacturing | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 27 | Sewing Clothes | 62 |
10%
|
| 28 | Paper bags | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 29 | Battery Manufacturing | 0 |
0%
|
| 30 | Aluminum related Production | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 31 | Batiks | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 32 | Making rugs | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 33 | Envelop & cotton tools | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 34 | Foot ware Manufacturing | 7 |
1.1%
|
| 35 | Mosquito Net Manufacturing | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 36 | Spinning lace | 36 |
5.8%
|
| 37 | Tea shop | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 38 | Work that a beautician is engaged in | 7 |
1.1%
|
| 39 | Wiring work | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 40 | Fabric Painting | 6 |
1%
|
| 41 | Bicycle repair | 15 |
2.4%
|
| 42 | Wood work | 8 |
1.3%
|
| 43 | Welding work | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 44 | Salon | 7 |
1.1%
|
| 45 | Laundry | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 46 | Pipe work | 0 |
0%
|
| 47 | TV, Radio repairs | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 48 | Repairing of electrical goods | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 49 | Watch repair | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 50 | Key cutting | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 51 | Car spray painting | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 52 | Telephone repairs | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 53 | Picture Framing | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 54 | Education institute | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 55 | Providing Food & equipment for occasions | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 56 | Renting equipment for special occasions | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 57 | Coir Trade | 18 |
2.9%
|
| 58 | Condiment grinding stone | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 59 | Making jewellary boxes | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 60 | Fiber works | 0 |
0%
|
| 61 | Vehicale reparing | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 62 | Manufacturing fisheres equipment | 3 |
0.5%
|
| 63 | Reparing gold & silver goods | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 64 | Gem cutting | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 65 | Making Antennas | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 66 | Making books | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 67 | Collecting cardboards & selling | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 68 | Making flowerpots | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 69 | Bamboo industry | 29 |
4.7%
|
| 70 | Lottery sales | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 71 | Shop tools | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 72 | Making stringthopper basket | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 73 | Selling ropes | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 74 | Dryfish sales | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 75 | Reparing generator | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 76 | Making electric bell frames | 1 |
0.2%
|
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.