Informal Sector Business Survey 2019

Lao PDR, 2019

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LAO_2019_ISBS_v01_M

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World Bank Group (WBG)

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How did [owner] acquire the business or activity? (b5)

Data file: laoinformal_2019_full_data_long_form

Overview

Valid: 19

Invalid: 342

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 129

End: 130

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

B.5 How did [owner] acquire ownership of this business or activity?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know (spontaneous)	0	0%
1	Purchased an existing business	1	5.3%
2	Joined an existing family business	3	15.8%
3	Joined an existing non-family business	0	0%
4	Other	15	78.9%
Sysmiss		342

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.

Question post text

If 1 to 5 or -9, GO TO QUESTION B.7

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