2022 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Survey
First Edition
Zambia, 2022 - 2026
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BD13 What were you mainly doing before you began this business? (BD13_OTHER_SPECIFY)
Data file: Business-Business_Level_21B_Anonymised
Overview
Valid:
232
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
255
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRICK LAYING | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Charcoal burning | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| DOING SUBSISTANCE FARMING | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| E | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| EMPLOYED AS A MAID | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| EMPLOYED AT TBZ | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Employed as a maid | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Employed as maid | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| FARMI | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| FARMING | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| FARMING FOR CONSUPTION | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Farmed for home consumption only | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Farming | 10 |
4.3%
|
|
| Farming cassava for home consumption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Farming for home consumption | 2 |
0.9%
|
|
| Farming Maize | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Farming businesses mainly growing of maize | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Farming cassava for home consumption | 4 |
1.7%
|
|
| Farming for home consumption | 2 |
0.9%
|
|
| Farming for home consumption | 5 |
2.2%
|
|
| Farming for survival | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Farming maize | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Farming maize for consumption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Farming maize for home consumption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| GARDENING | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Gardening | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Grew up doing this .. so have never | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| INVOLVED WITH GENERAL TRADING | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| MATHS TUITOR | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Moneylender | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Nothing | 2 |
0.9%
|
|
| Peasant farmer | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Peasant farmer | 3 |
1.3%
|
|
| SUBSISTENCE FARMER | 6 |
2.6%
|
|
| Selling traditional brooms | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Subsistence farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Subsistence farmer | 2 |
0.9%
|
|
| Subsistence farming | 3 |
1.3%
|
|
| THE WIFE WAS A HOMAKER AND HUSBAND | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Trading of dry chisense | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| USED TO | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| WAS WORKING FOR TBZ | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was busy with Bicylce reparing | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| bricklaying part time | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| burning | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| car machanic | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| car mechanic | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| charcoal burning | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| crop farming | 2 |
0.9%
|
|
| doing piece works | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| doing a business in a different line | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| doing agricultural business of selling maize | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| employed in NGO | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| employed in government | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| employed in parastatal | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| employed in private sector | 2 |
0.9%
|
|
| employeed in privet homes | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| emplyed as a garden boy at Mutanda farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| far | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farm care taker | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farmer | 3 |
1.3%
|
|
| farming | 24 |
10.3%
|
|
| farming for home consumption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming of home consumption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming for home consumption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming cereals | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming eg growing of maize and cassava | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming for family consuption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming for home consumption | 6 |
2.6%
|
|
| farming for home consuption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming for homeuse | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming just for home consumption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming of home consumption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming pigs | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming such as growing maize and cassava | 2 |
0.9%
|
|
| farming, for home consumption | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| fisherman | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| gardening | 6 |
2.6%
|
|
| government employee | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| growing cassava and sweet potatoes | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| growing maize for home use | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| growing tobaco | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| he is working in a similar line of business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| he wasn't born yet but now heis the one running the business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| influenced by others | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| insurance company (african life insurance) | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| just as house wife | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| just farming | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| lack of support from parents | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| maid | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| maize crop farming | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| making and selling local beer | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| minister of the gospel | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| mushroom business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| needed funds for school going child | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| nothing to do with business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| nothing was just staying with my parents | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| owned a restaurant | 2 |
0.9%
|
|
| owned a retail shop | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| part time worker at Food Reserve Agency | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| pastor | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| peace working | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| piece work around | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| piece work laundry | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| preacher | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| ran a family business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| retired | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| run another type of business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| school girl | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| selling popcorn | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| selling salaula | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| selling beans and charcoal | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| selling chickens boilers live | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| selling clothes | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| selling rice | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| she was working in his father's shop | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| she was a charcoal burner | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| still a pastor | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| still employed | 2 |
0.9%
|
|
| studing | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| studio production | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| subsistance farmer | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| subsistance farming | 2 |
0.9%
|
|
| subsistence farming | 3 |
1.3%
|
|
| supplying meat to somalians | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| to help out at home | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| trouble with keeping up with children school and other f | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| used to sale goats and village chickens | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| used to sell beer | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| used to sell cow meat at the market | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| volunteer at chawama clinic | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was a fish monger | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was buying and selling traditional beer | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was doing farming of maize | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was doing nothing | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was doing saloon business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was employed short contracts | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was farming | 3 |
1.3%
|
|
| was into farming | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was into farming business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was just a peasant farmer | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was just farming | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was just farming for homeuse | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was just growing maize to eat | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was selling fish | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was selling traditional mats | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was selling bananas in town | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was selling fish | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was selling fritters | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was selling local beer | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was selling nakonde rice | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was selling second hand clothes | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was working as a maid | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| we grew up in this line of business as a family | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| worked as a maid | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| working at somes farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| working for fsmily | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| working in the farm with parents | 1 |
0.4%
|
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.