STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2012 (Wave 1)
Sri Lanka, 2012
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Reference ID
LKA_2012_STEP-HH_v02_M
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Best source of funds of business/own account... (m4c_q07)
Data file: STEP Sri_Lanka_working
Overview
Valid:
618
Invalid:
2371
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
2072
End:
2073
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Module 4: Employment
Part C: Main Job in Past Week
Q7. To the best of your knowledge, when you set up or took over the business/ own account enterprise, what was its main source of funds?
Part C: Main Job in Past Week
Q7. To the best of your knowledge, when you set up or took over the business/ own account enterprise, what was its main source of funds?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | household savings or sales of assets | 326 |
52.8%
|
| 2 | loans or grants from relatives in country | 40 |
6.5%
|
| 3 | remittances from relatives abroad | 7 |
1.1%
|
| 4 | money from inheritance | 57 |
9.2%
|
| 5 | business partners | 6 |
1%
|
| 6 | bank loan | 53 |
8.6%
|
| 7 | informal loan (trader, landlord, moneylender) | 23 |
3.7%
|
| 8 | profits from other household enterprises | 15 |
2.4%
|
| 9 | did not need funds to start it: inherited business | 80 |
12.9%
|
| 10 | other (specify____________________________) | 8 |
1.3%
|
| 11 | From the money won by a lottery ticket | 0 |
0%
|
| 12 | From the micro finance institution that give loans | 0 |
0%
|
| 13 | Allowances given by the government | 0 |
0%
|
| 14 | Funding form associations’ | 0 |
0%
|
| 99 | don't know | 3 |
0.5%
|
| Sysmiss | 2371 |
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.