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 (2nd) (s7_5_2)

Data file: Malaysia-2007--mnf data-

Overview

Valid: 551

Invalid: 564

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1521

End: 1522

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 12

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Shipping and transport costs	56	10.2%
2	Costs of obtaining visas for immigration of temporary and permanent employees	36	6.5%
3	Cost of meeting foreign legal and product standards	54	9.8%
4	Inability to produce to potential clients' standards, specifications, and schedule	64	11.6%
5	Cannot match prices of domestic competitors who export	62	11.3%
6	Cannot match prices of foreign competitors	60	10.9%
7	Foreign clients demand upgrades and changes in specifications too frequently	37	6.7%
8	Recovering payments from abroad is difficult	41	7.4%
9	Supplying the domestic market is relatively more profitable	60	10.9%
10	Costs of establishing a foreign distribution network	44	8%
11	Domestic content requirements	32	5.8%
12	Others	5	0.9%
Sysmiss		564

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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