Enterprise Skills Survey 2016

Zambia, 2016

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Reference ID

ZMB_2016_ESS_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/jh17-d094

Producer(s)

World Bank

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys

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Aug 10, 2017

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Second Most Important Skills For Deciding Whether To Hire An Employee (l12b)

Data file: zambiaskills_2016_full_data

Overview

Valid: 350

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 583

End: 584

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

By looking at card 8, can you tell me among the following skills which are the three most important type of skills for deciding whether to hire an employee?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know (spontaneous)	0	0%
-7	Does not apply	1	0.3%
1	Interpersonal and communication skills	65	18.6%
2	Writing skills	31	8.9%
3	Problem solving skills	77	22%
4	Critical thinking skills	29	8.3%
5	Work ethic	78	22.3%
6	English skills	11	3.1%
7	Computer skills / General IT skills	10	2.9%
8	Technical skills, other than computers / vocational, job-specific skills	32	9.1%
9	Numeracy Skills	16	4.6%

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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Notes

L.12 By looking at card 8, can you tell me among the following skills which are the three most important type of skills for deciding whether to hire an employee?Second most important skills

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