Interviewer instructions
Items 226 and 227: Types of assistance received during the last 5 years (code): The enterprise might have received some assistance at some stage of its operation. It can come either from government or from some non-governmental organization or some private agency/individual. Different codes have been provided to record the same. An enterprise may receive more than one type of assistance mentioned in different codes. Two most important assistances received during the last 5 years are to be reported in codes in descending order of the importance of assistance in items 226 to 227. The codes are:
financial loan (institutional) - 1, financial loan (non-institutional) - 2, subsidy - 3, machinery/ equipment - 4, training -5, marketing - 6, procurement of raw material - 7, others - 9, no assistance received from any source - 8.