2022 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Survey
First Edition
Zambia, 2022 - 2026
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ZMB-ZSA-MSME-2022-V1.0
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Zambia Statistics Agency, Bank of Zambia
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Jan 17, 2026
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BD10 What was the main reason why you started this particular business? (BD10_OTHER_SPECIFY)
Data file: Business-Business_Level_21B_Anonymised
Overview
Valid:
74
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
255
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALL ZAMBIAN BORDERS | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| ALONG THE HIGH WAYS | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| AT SCHOOL | 2 |
2.7%
|
|
| At a school | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| At market and Home | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| At the habour | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| FRA | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| FRA SITE | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| FRA outside residential area | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| Food reseerve agency | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| Garden at the dam | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| Going around peoples homes | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| Locally and at the Central Business District | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| MOBILE-WALKING AROUND COMPOUNDS SELLING | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| MUFULIRA IN KANKOYO | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| Mobile | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| Ngambela area | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| On the lake | 2 |
2.7%
|
|
| On the lake Bangweulu | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| Outside the district | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| Riverside | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| SELLS DOOR TO DOOR | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| THE RIVERSIDE | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| Takes to lusaka | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| Transporting to Kasumba Lesa in chililabombwe | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| at the Lake | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| at the Lake | 2 |
2.7%
|
|
| at the border of zambia and congo and in solwezi | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| at the gardens side | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| at the work site | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| black mountain | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| by the banks of the zambezi river i the plains | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| by the road side | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| chahinda market(lusaka) | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| chilenge (lusaka) | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| council main station | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| different towns | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| dont have a structure, just take to FRA to sell | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| exports through Lusaka coperatives | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| farm land | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| fishing hub | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| food reserve agency (FRA) | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| i take to Food Reserve Agency | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| in another province | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| in the forest | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| just sales and delivers to people in bulk | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| kalulushi town | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| location not fixed | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| lusaka | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| mainly taking the maize to fra within the community | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| mazabuka at the market | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| mobile business | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| on the lake shore | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| on the shores of the lake and main land | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| online business | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| other district by the boder | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| out side the district | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| out the province in kasumbalesa | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| outside CBD but within the district | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| outside the city | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| outside the district | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| pack in 50kg and transport to FRA | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| resettlement | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| sales in lusaka | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| school area | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| selling fish at home;maize outside home | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| supplies food reserve agency | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| supply to FOOD RESEERVE AGENCY | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| takes to the millers | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| town centre | 1 |
1.4%
|
|
| vending | 1 |
1.4%
|
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.