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 you would not hire an additional employee? (d5_11)

Data file: SLMSround4

Overview

Valid: 398

Invalid: 187

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1432

End: 1432

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	My business does not need another worker	287	72.1%
2	I am not willing to pay additional wages	74	18.6%
3	I cannot trust/rely on another worker	17	4.3%
4	Employees are too difficult to manage	8	2%
5	Other reason	12	3%
Sysmiss		187

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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