Micro-Enterprise Survey 2009

Mauritius, 2008 - 2009

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Reference ID

MUS_2009_MS_v01_M_WB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/7pep-8g97

Producer(s)

World Bank,

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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May 24, 2011

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why did largest owner start or take over this firm? (b3e)

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

Overview

Valid: 86

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 130

End: 131

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 2

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

INTERVIEWER: SHOW CARD

Literal question

Which of the following two options best describes why the largest owner started or took over this firm?
To take advantage of a business opportunity
Jobs or opportunities were absent or not satisfactory

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	don’t know	4	4.7%
1	to take advantage of a business opportunity	71	82.6%
2	alternative jobs or opportunities were absent or not satisfa	11	12.8%

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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