World Bank Enterprise Survey 2023

Samoa, 2023

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WSM_2023_WBES_v01_M

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World Bank Group (WBG)

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Enterprise Surveys

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Jan 24, 2025

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Main reason establishment did not hire more workers in the last FY (l33)

Data file: Samoa-2023-full-data.dta

Overview

Valid: 24

Invalid: 133

Minimum: 3

Maximum: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1961

End: 1962

Width: 2

Range: 3 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know (spontaneous)	0	0%
1	Non-wage labor costs were too high	0	0%
2	Legally required minimum wage or cost of dismissal were too high	0	0%
3	Lack of skilled labor	21	87.5%
4	Competitive labor costs and benefits were too high	0	0%
5	Not enough budget or headquarters did not authorize the hiring	2	8.3%
6	Other	1	4.2%
Sysmiss		133

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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