2022 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Survey
First Edition
Zambia, 2022 - 2026
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Reference ID
ZMB-ZSA-MSME-2022-V1.0
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Zambia Statistics Agency, Bank of Zambia
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BD13 What were you mainly doing before you began this business? (BD13_DOING_BEFORE_YOU_BEGAN)
Data file: Business-Business_Level_21B_Anonymised
Overview
Valid:
3985
Invalid:
78
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unemployed | 1186 |
29.8%
|
| 2 | Home maker (Wife/Husband) | 878 |
22%
|
| 3 | In school, at various levels | 192 |
4.8%
|
| 4 | Employed in public sector | 246 |
6.2%
|
| 5 | Employed in a similar line of business | 115 |
2.9%
|
| 6 | Employed in a different line of business | 429 |
10.8%
|
| 7 | Owned and ran a similar business | 185 |
4.6%
|
| 8 | Owned and ran an enterprise in another line of business | 536 |
13.5%
|
| 9 | Others specify…. | 218 |
5.5%
|
| Sysmiss | 78 |
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.