Enterprise Survey 2013, Innovation Follow-up Survey
Kenya, 2013 - 2014
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| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Lot Of Interruption Due To Phone Calls. | 1 |
0.2%
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| All Was Ok Apart From Having To Pause The Interview Twice | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| At Last She Cooperated Very Well | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Average | 4 |
0.7%
|
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| Co-Operative | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Complains Of Current Business Environment Very Poor, Increase Of Taxes And Continuous Power Blackouts | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Cooperative | 2 |
0.4%
|
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| Cooperative And Friendly | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Cooperative Respondent | 2 |
0.4%
|
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| Cooperative but did not know the figures used in the establishment. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Don'T Have Internet Connection But Use Modems With Internet | 1 |
0.2%
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| Establishment Is Mainly A Retail Firm And Did Not Have Innovation. | 1 |
0.2%
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| Friendly | 1 |
0.2%
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| Gave me his time without complaining the questionnaire was too long | 1 |
0.2%
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| Good | 3 |
0.5%
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| He Declined To Give Any Information Concerning Money And Even Said Its A Company Policy And He Also Requested Me To Use The Company Phone Number And Not Mobile Number 0725447895 Which Is Personal | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| He Had To Call His Foreman To Do Some Explaining About Some Issues With The Gigs And Even Asked Him To Take Me To One Of The Gigs So To Understand What He Was Telling Me | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| He Said That From The Companies Rule They Don'T Give Money Figure To Outsiders Due Its A Private Company. There Were Also To Many Interruption From His Other Staff | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| He Talked About A New Machinery Called Wheel Balancing They Acquired It At The End Of 2012 And Started Using It This Year. He Was Helpful | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| He Was Busy But Interested .For This Establishment Been A Manufacturing Company They Have New Product Nearly Every Week. Its A Productive Establishment Having To Deal With Big Establishment . | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| He Was Composed | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| He Was Fast On A Hurry To Leave Then After Much Convincing That It Will Not Take Long He Agreed. | 1 |
0.2%
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| He Was Helpful. The New Product Takes 3 Years To Mature That'S Why We I Didn'T Identify The Total Sales Of The New Product. The Coffee Industry Is Really Going Down Due To Corruption From Cbk Especially And They Hope Things Will Change Because | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| He Was Very Busy Make Him Answering Questions Very Had But Still Answered Them. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| He gave the mobile number of the compay and not personal. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| He refused to give any information about money matters and even said that if i insist on money issues he will stop answering the rest of the question. | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| I Was Referred To The 2Nd Respondent Who Showed Less Concern But Later Cooperated Well | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Insisted The Survey Was Not Of Any Importance To Him | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Interview Successful. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Interview Was A Success | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Interview Was Fine | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Interview Was Successful | 11 |
2%
|
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| Interview Was Very Short As The Respondent Had Not Done Any Innovation. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Interview Was Very Successful | 2 |
0.4%
|
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| Interview Was Very Successful. | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Interview Went On Just Fine | 2 |
0.4%
|
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| Interview Went Smoothly And Respondent Was Very Knowledgeable | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Interview sucessfully. | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| It Does Not Manufacture But Assembles Generators From Overseas Countries. Respondent Very Cooperative. The Supplier Sent Somebody From Their Company To Come To Train The Staff At No Cost. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| It Had A Few Interruption Either By Phone Or The Staffs But Still Was Successful | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| It Was Success Full But He Was In Abit Of Hurry To Go Somewhere And Also Kept Complaining Of Bad Road To That Place So He Wanted The Interview To End Quickly So As Not Get Late | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| It Was Successful | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| It Was Successful Though He Was In A Hurry To Go To A Meeting. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Its Was A Good Survey | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Kept On Postponing The Interview Because She Was Busy | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Lack Of Adequate Information | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Manager And Assistant Were On A Business Trip Abroad | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Mentioned That They Are Providing The Farmers With Fertilizers To Grow The Coffee Then When Coffee Is Paid They Deduct From Their Salaries | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| My Respondent Was Impatient But Friendly | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| No Challenges | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| No Comment | 6 |
1.1%
|
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| No Comments | 9 |
1.6%
|
|
| No Comments The Interview Had A Good Flow | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No New Or Improved Product Or Services Done Last 3 Yrs. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| No Problems At All | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| No Problems Encountered During The Interview | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| No Problems Encountered In The Interview | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| No comments | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| No problems | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| None | 138 |
25.1%
|
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| None It Was Successful | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| None Just Several Appointment | 1 |
0.2%
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| None The Director Was Very True And Most Of The Time Refer From Records-Landline 0572022896/2023308 | 1 |
0.2%
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| None Very successful | 1 |
0.2%
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| None,was cooperative though towards the end was impatient | 1 |
0.2%
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| None. | 17 |
3.1%
|
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| Not Aware Of Most Money Tally Figures | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Not Willing To Disclose Information | 1 |
0.2%
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| Not given enough time and appeared to be descreit | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Not so cooperative and request not to be interviewed again,no innovation in the establishment. | 1 |
0.2%
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| Refused To Provide Cell Phone Number Only Gave Office Number Which Are 57)2020660-0733638370-0770304072 | 1 |
0.2%
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| Refused To Respond To Some Questions On Finances E.G. Annual Turn Over. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Regular Interferences By Employees | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Responded understood the concept of the questionare well. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondent Commented That Questionnaire Was Mainly Tailored For Manufacturing Companies | 1 |
0.2%
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| Respondent Complained About Business Being Too Slow And Thus Lacking Enough Funds For Any Form Of Innovation. | 1 |
0.2%
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| Respondent Cooperative | 6 |
1.1%
|
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| Respondent Cooperative. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondent Insisted On Seeing Introduction Letter And Communication From Ktda To Allow Him Give Out Information | 1 |
0.2%
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| Respondent Kept Referring To Head Office Nairobi For Most Of The Questions. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondent Refused To Give Any Monetary Figures | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondent Very Busy In Calls And Walk In Customers But Very Cooperative Though Took A Bit Longer. | 1 |
0.2%
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| Respondent Very Cooperative | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondent Was Attending A Meeting | 1 |
0.2%
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| Respondent Was Hostile But Cooperative And This May Have Had An Influence On His Responses | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondent Was In A Hurry | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondent Was Of Asian Origin And His English Was Not So Good And Was Pretty Hard To Hear Some Words. He Was Also Very Sensitive In Disclosing Money Matters But Interview Was Completed. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondent Was Rude But Later Cooperated | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondent Was Very Busy But At Last Managed To Give Interview In The Afternoon | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondent cooperative | 2 |
0.4%
|
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| Respondent cooperative. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondents Hide Information. Because Not Mandated To Disclose Companies Information | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Respondents Not Sure Of His Answers..... | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Road Terrain To The Firm Is Terrible | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| She Can'T Give Money Information Because Not Authorized By The Company. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| She Very Cooperative Though She Said It Must Be Rushed Due To Time And Her Work Schedule | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| She Was In A Hurry To Finish Up With Me And Wasn'T Happy Us Visiting Again | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| She Was Open Minded And Really Nice To Talk To | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| She was happy to see me again and hoped that this survey will be of help .She has only sold two cars since we visited ,reduced her number of employs and the size of her office .The new thing they have is good looking stickers for the cars and m | 1 |
0.2%
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| She was helpful ,glad to have us again. | 1 |
0.2%
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| Some Phone And Other Staff Interruption But Everything Else Very Perfect | 1 |
0.2%
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| Successful | 69 |
12.6%
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| Successful Complete Interview | 1 |
0.2%
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| Successful. | 1 |
0.2%
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| Sucessful | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Company Changed Their Name From Protex To New Wide Garmets | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Contact Person Referred Me To A Second Person Who Is The Head Accountant | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Contact Person Referred Me To Second Person Who Is The Head Accountant | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Establishment Changed Hands And The New Owners Changed Almost Every Thing From The Name To The Staffs I.E. There Are 36 Staffs Now And It Called Jamia Central Hotel Which Is Under New Management Since December 2012 | 1 |
0.2%
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| The Establishment Have Applied For Internet Connection But There Is Poor Network Connection In The Building Which Makes Difficulty For The Firm To Use The Service | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Establishment Is A Government Parastatal And Most Of The Policies Are Formulated By The Government | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Factory Is Under The Same Manager As Rumukia Farmers Coop Society | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Firm Has Not Done Any Innovation. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Interview Was Short He Didn'T Have Much To Say On Innovation And He Wants A Feedback On The Survey | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Interview Was Successful | 4 |
0.7%
|
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| The Machine Was Purchased From Abroad So He'S Not Aware Of The Cost... | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Manager And His Deputy Were On Leave | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Manager Had To Leave On An Emergency But He Delegated To His Deputy Who Was Also Capable Of Answering The Questions | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Manager Was Not Available At The Factory On My Arrival | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The New Product Is Yet To Mature And Be Processed To Be In The Market That'S Why We Couldn'T Come Up With The Total Percentage Sale Of The New Product .Apart From That The Lady Was Welcoming And Coffee Farmers Seems To Have The Same Problem Of | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Only Manager Thing They Did Was Change The Bottles Of The Sprays In Terms Of Shape And Appearance. He Was Patient And Welcomed Us Again | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Petrol Station Was Not Operating Since It Was Under Renovation | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Responded Was Very Cooperative | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Complained About High Taxes When Importing Goods | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Cooperated Well. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Gave It All, Cooperative And Smart No Problem. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Insists Of No Innovation Made In The Establishment. Good Respondent. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Is The Supervisor Hence Not Knowledgeable Of All Finance Details | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Was Cooperative | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Was Cooperative And Attentive | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Was Friendly And Cooperative | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Was Happy To See Me Again .They Would Have Loved To Have Innovation In All Those Areas But Finance Is A Big Obstacle Coursing Zero Growth | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Was Happy We Visited Again | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Was Impatient | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Was Keen And Cooperative | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Was Very Friendly And Cooperative | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Respondent Was Very Welcoming And Gave Correct Information | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The Tel No Is 2220049. Refused To Give Mobile No. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The establishment has not done any innovations | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The respondent want to open other businesses and no innovation has been done in the establishment. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The responted asked goverment to allow many investors to come and invest in kenya | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The responted complained about high charges on VAT imposed by Goverment | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| The responted gave very detailed information. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| There Is No Innovation Done In The Establishment And Things Are Just The Same. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| There Is No Innovations In The Establishment, The Respondent Was Fantastic. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| They Get Short Term Leases So Its Hard For Them To Keep U The Business And The Landlord Wants To Sell The Building | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| They Have Introduced An Etr Machine Which Is An Innovation For 2013 | 1 |
0.2%
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| They Haven'T Had Any Innovation Because They Are Shutting Down The Firm. Manufacturing In Kenya Is Becoming Uncondusive For This Particular Industry Its Shrinking Because Of The Second Hand Clothes ,Importation Of Ready Made Garments, Export Ma | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| They Recently Opened Another Firm, Gave More Time For The Interview. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| This Firm Has Been Closed For One Year And Have Just Been Reopened And Now Its When They Are Renovating The Slaughter House That.This The Reason Why They Didn'T Have Any Innovation Between 2010-2012 | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Too Fast While Responding, Already Formed An Opinion That The Questionnaire Was Very Long Hence He Responded Very Fast | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Verry cooperative | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Very Attentive And Cooperative | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Very Co-Operative No Problem Experienced | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Very Cooperative But The Business Is Down | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Very Cooperative Respondent | 3 |
0.5%
|
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| Very Genuine, Most Of Figures He Referred From Company Records, Very Patient & Attentive | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Very Interactive Respondent. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Very Much Unwilling To Participate | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Very Success Full | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Very cooperative | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Very cooperative and innovation done so far. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Was Cooperative Complained That He Was Busy At The Start But Cooperated Till The End Of Interview | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Was Glad We Visited And He Just Mentioned At The End Of The Survey That Most Of The Innovative Product They Had Was Completely New In The Market | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Was In A Hurry And Wanted The Interview To Be As Fast As Possible | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Was In A Hurry, Was Responding Un-Interrupted So I Tried To Control | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Was Interrupted By Customers | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Was cooperative and patient though complaint that most questions are targeting manufactures/producers and with them they dont manufacture anything | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Welcoming | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| Went There Several Times Before L Got The Feedback | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| a very coperative asian ive ever meet,coperated so well | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| after several attempt he finally agreed and comperated well | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| bussiness is down i have even chased some employees | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| finally succesful after several attempts ,respondend cooperated very well | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| firm has not done any innovation as it is mainly a retail firm | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| good respodent. | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| he didnt have much to offer on the topic | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| he was very coperative but there were few phone interuption | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| he would like a feed back of both studies | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| i went there more the three times to get to do that interview he was very busy every day i went there | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| interview was good and respondent was very interested | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| interview was succesful | 2 |
0.4%
|
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| interview was succesful but the manager complained of harsh economic times and lack of goverment support and unfair competition from chinese goods and they contemplating on shutting down. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| interview was succesfull | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| interview went on just fine | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| interview went on smoothly but the respondent had only two yrs with the firm | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| introduced ETR machine in 2013 | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no comment | 3 |
0.5%
|
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| no comments | 5 |
0.9%
|
|
| no inovation and they are hardware dealers dealing with construction material | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| no problem occurred | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| no problems occurred it was successful | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| none | 41 |
7.5%
|
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| none just additional number-0723827968 | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| none looked genuine,reffered mostly from firm's records | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| nothing extra ordinary occured | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| nothing yas affected the accuracy of this interview | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| refused to give out his number and instead gave the number of the manager | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| respondent was very coperative and had good knowledge of firms opperations | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| respondent was very busy and there was alot of interruptions but we managed to finish the interview | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| succefull but heard so many stories to tell i had to find a way of cutting him short he also said that the establishment was started in the year 1996 and not 1986 | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| successful | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| the contact manager is deceased | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| the contact person is deceased | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| the interview was successful | 5 |
0.9%
|
|
| the interview went well and was successful | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| the man was so troublesome.Was not ready to give out his name,so harrassing and in hurry. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| the place was so noisy,but never affected the result. | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| the trademark has been changed this year | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| there were some interuption from customer who came for there phone repairs. They work with huawei phone manufacturers so the training in the company is always done by huawei company for free | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| they did trainnig but the parent company took the expenses | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| very comperative and welcoming | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| very cooperative | 8 |
1.5%
|
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| very cooperative and have innovation for 2013 .Bought another petrol station just next to the establishment | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| very cooperative,and no inventions in the establishment,for more information they want the head office in Nairobi to answer. | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| very cooperative,have innovation for 2013 introduction of D.Light | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| very good and willing to participate respondent | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| very honest and hewants a feed back of the study and you should also let him know how he could improve his business | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| very welcoming and cooporative | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| was in a hurry and to try by all means to control him | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| was patient and cooperative.The establishment has a new name.."Ganiz" previously New Al-Hussein Cafe | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| we trade our products to sugar companies and they are not doing well,china is also producing the product on a cheaper price so no solution but to close down | 1 |
0.2%
|
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| well versed with the companys information | 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.