Microenterprise Survey 2005-2010

Sri Lanka, 2005 - 2010

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Reference ID

LKA_2005_SLMS_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/rhvj-ks71

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Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

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What is the main reason for stop working in the previous business? (d1_6)

Data file: SLMSround4

Overview

Valid: 17

Invalid: 568

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 76

End: 76

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	The business was making a loss	6	35.3%
2	Sickness or health reasons	5	29.4%
3	I found a better paying wage job	0	0%
4	To take care of family matters	2	11.8%
5	A better business opportunity came along	1	5.9%
6	Other	3	17.6%
Sysmiss		568

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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