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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Jan 17, 2026
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BP04 How did you know that your business has declined? Others specify (BP04_OTHERS_SPECIFY)
Data file: Business-Business_Level_21B_Anonymised
Overview
Valid:
83
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
255
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Because of the fish barn | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Because i have an operation | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Because of drought | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| COVID 19 PANDEMIC | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| DECLINED BECAUSE OF COVID 19 | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| DISEL IS EXPERNSIVE | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Difficult catching fish | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Due to droughts | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| FAMILY MEMBER FELL SICK | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| FEW CUSTOMERS | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| FISH CATCH HAS GONE DOWN | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| I FELL SICK, I COULD NOT WORK | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| LACK OF MARKET PLACE | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| MARKET TOO COMPETITIVE | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| MISMANAGEMENT OF FUNDS | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| MODERN TECHNOLOGY WITH NEW VEH | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Order price getting expensive | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| POLITICAL INFLUCED MINES | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Poor harvest | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Poor rainfall | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| SPENT ALL MONEY TO SCHOOL FEES | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| THEIFING | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| TREES HAVE FINISHED | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Too many competitors | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Using most of the money | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| abrupt power disruption | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| application of the dollar | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| because of the cold weather | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| capital was stolen | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| climate chage (droughts) | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| climate change | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| credit payments from customers | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| customers dont pay on time | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| decline in demand | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| decreased in orders of kapenta | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| delay in payments from credito | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| demand for day old chicks have | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| due to illness | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| had tomc | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| hi | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| high cost of ingredients, | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| high cost of order for clothes | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| increase in goods prices | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| it has not declined | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| lack of fertilizer | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| lack of funds | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| less production due to an illn | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| lost mechandise in the fire | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| lost most of the crop | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| no capital | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| no customers | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| no enough materials | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| no money for fertiliser | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| no proper protection no securi | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| non payment | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| old age | 2 |
2.4%
|
|
| people are delaying to pay | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| poltical inclined Tenders | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| poor rainfall experienced | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| ran out farming tools | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| redu | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| reduced number of goods | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| reduction in supply of milk | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| reporting losses in the sales | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| she became pregnant so she wor | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| she is growing old (Aging) | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| so many people in this busines | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| some customers fail to pay bac | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| stiff competition | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| the rain pattern because | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| theft | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| thieves stole in my small shop | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| too many family responsibiliti | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| too many suppliers | 2 |
2.4%
|
|
| too much competition | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| too much competition in the bu | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| too much shortage by his broth | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| transport cost | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| uses firewood to make and its | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| very busy at the farm | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| was sisck so it slowed down | 1 |
1.2%
|
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.