Informal Survey 2009

Mauritius, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

MUS_2009_InS_v01_M_WB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/sq8w-2t19

Producer(s)

World Bank

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Mar 24, 2011

Last modified

Sep 26, 2013

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Reasons to start business (b6)

Data file: Mauritius-2009-Informal-full data-

Overview

Valid: 132

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 79

End: 80

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 3

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which of the following options best describes why the largest owner started or took over this business?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	don't know	0	0%
1	to take advantage of a business opportunity	91	68.9%
2	alternative jobs or opportunities were absent or not satisfa	34	25.8%
3	other	7	5.3%

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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