Productivity of the Investment Climate Private Enterprise Survey 2007

Malaysia, 2007

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Reference ID

MYS_2007_PICS_v01_M_WB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/k3bn-wx07

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World Bank, Economic Planning Unit and Department of Statistics, Prime Minister's Department, Malaysia

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys

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May 25, 2011

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Three most important obstacles for exporting (1st) (s7_5_1)

Data file: Malaysia-2007--mnf data-

Overview

Valid: 640

Invalid: 475

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1519

End: 1520

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 12

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Shipping and transport costs	228	35.6%
2	Costs of obtaining visas for immigration of temporary and permanent employees	19	3%
3	Cost of meeting foreign legal and product standards	38	5.9%
4	Inability to produce to potential clients' standards, specifications, and schedule	43	6.7%
5	Cannot match prices of domestic competitors who export	45	7%
6	Cannot match prices of foreign competitors	65	10.2%
7	Foreign clients demand upgrades and changes in specifications too frequently	13	2%
8	Recovering payments from abroad is difficult	19	3%
9	Supplying the domestic market is relatively more profitable	80	12.5%
10	Costs of establishing a foreign distribution network	20	3.1%
11	Domestic content requirements	38	5.9%
12	Others	32	5%
Sysmiss		475

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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