Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Survey 2016
Kenya, 2016
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics
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Data file: 2016 MSME Survey - Final establishments dataset with trainings data
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Limited working hours i.e opening bar in the evening and closing early in the night. 2. Poor drainage of water during rainy seasons | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 2.Staff turn over 3.Cost of operating business was very high due to inflation. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| About to be demolished by the roads authority | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Absenteeism of owner | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Access to electricity | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Accessibility to affordable electricity | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Accessing loans | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Act of God | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Additional rent | 4 |
0%
|
|
| Alot of debts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Alot of defaulters | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Alot of licences | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Approach by govt officers is in a threatening manner | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Assistance to buy tools | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Availability of other ethic groups who do not take pork | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Bad blood between marakwets and pokots in the border | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Bad debt | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Bad debts | 6 |
0%
|
|
| Bad drainage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Bad road | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Bad weather | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Bad weather hence milk goes bad and people don't buy as much yoghurt in the rainy season | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Beaurocracy | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Being a charity firm, its hard to choose who to serve and who not to serve | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Being a sole breadwinner of the family | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Being behind other businesses | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Blackouts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Branding | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Business dependence on Pwani University such that when they go for their long holidays the business suffers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Business environment is unconducive lowering our economy | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Business fluctuations | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Business is quite hidden from the public | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Business is run online,not enough coverage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Business site uncertainty | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Buying on credit | 2 |
0%
|
|
| COUNTY BUSINESSES NOT BEING STRAIGHT IN THEIR DEALS. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cannot get loan due to lack of collateral | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cash flow | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cash flow problems | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cash flow problems. | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Challenges during fieldwork activities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Challenges that comes with a new product in the market. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Change in drug prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Change in market prices | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Changes or fluctuations in markets | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Children sickness | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cholera outbreak caused business to be closed | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Clients not paying debts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Communication challenges | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Communications(network) | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Community insisting on being employed yet they are not qualified | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Conditions by EABL | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Conmen | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Conmen stealing from the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Constant changes in prices of products | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Constant sickness | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Construction of the road led to demolishment | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Continous fluctuation of prices of goods | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Corruption | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Corruption -people need kick backs to give you tender | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Corruption and bribery in securing contracts and delayed payments to contractors | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Corruption in kenya hence other companies favoured | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Cost of advertisement | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cost of license | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cost of rent | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cost of servicing | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Costs on the electricity | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Costumers using fake money | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Counter feit drugs are many | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Counterfeit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Counterfeiting of equipment | 1 |
0%
|
|
| County government programs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Credit loans not payed | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Credit sales | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customer disatisfaction | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Customer failure to pay for goods sold on credit. | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Customer not paying debt | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customer relations | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customer's credits | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers are less | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Customers bad debts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers borrowing | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers buying goods,using them then returning them claiming they had some defects since they are second hand | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers buying goods on credit and refuse to pay | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Customers buying on credit | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Customers buying on credit and not paying. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers conning her | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers don't like following mpesa rules | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers don't want to pay after receiving services | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers failing to make payments and not picking up | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers failing to pay on time | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Customers not coming with national identity cards | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers not paying debts | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Customers not paying for goods on time | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers not paying for services | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers not paying in time | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers not paying on time | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Customers taking too long to pick up clothes | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers want services on credit | 2 |
0%
|
|
| DEFAULTING CUSTOMERS | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Dalay for payments | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Dealing Rowdy customers | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Death of employees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Debfaulters | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Debtors | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Debtors refusing to pay | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Debts | 9 |
0%
|
|
| Debts and debts not paid | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Debts from customers | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Default ofnooan payment | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Defaultance | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Defaulters | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Defaulting of loans | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Delay by supplier to supplly an order | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Delay in garbage collection | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Delay in payment by the government for deliveries made | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Delay in payments by the county government | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Delay of county gabbage collection | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Delay of county remittance | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Delayed pay of goods taken on credit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Delayed payment | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Delayed payments from their clients | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Delays in payments by schools | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Difficulties in securing clients who allow for their vehicles to be branded | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Dirty environment | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Discrimination and insufficiency of funds | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Discrimination on tender issuance from our local government towards fair boosting of operating local businesses | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Disease ebola outbreak | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Dishonest customers who don't pay school fees | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Dishonesty of employees | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Drought | 6 |
0%
|
|
| Drunk customers lean on the display mirror and cause breakage of mirrors | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Dstv too expensive and not profitable Hiking of goods Ie beer and cigarette | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Dumping site is cleared after a long time | 1 |
0%
|
|
| During rain seasons there is flooding | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Dust | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Dust problem due to the dry and windy conditions in the county | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Economic downtime affecting the payment of loans from farmers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Economic instability or market fluctuations | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Education curriculum change | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Effect of the weather especially on Field Personnel | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Employees running away with money | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Environmental constraints /Dust due to road construction | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Eviction and demolition of previous business premises by road works officials | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Excessive electricity rate | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expenditure culture that is opposed to our saving culture | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expenditure in business wares have little return. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expenses too much than profit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expensive business premises | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expensive inputs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expensive raw materials required for business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expensive rent | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expensive stock | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Extreme prices of commodities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| FEW WORKING HOURS | 1 |
0%
|
|
| FINANCIAL STABILITY | 1 |
0%
|
|
| FLUCTUATIONS IN PRICES | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Failure by customers to pay for products taken | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fake currencies | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fake goods | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fake products in the market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fake promise from chamber of commerce | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Family consumption | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Far from main road | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fear of kra | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Few customers | 5 |
0%
|
|
| Few pupils | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Filthy environmental | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Finance | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Financial | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Financial constraints | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Financial constraints facing institution | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Financial crisis | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Financial problems | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Flactuation in customer numbers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Flooding | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Flooding of cheap shoes in the market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Floods | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuating and high comondity prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuating number of children and teachers who shift to other schools | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuating prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuating prices of fuel | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuation of prices and poor location /site of the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuations in market prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuations in stock prices | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuations of oil prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuations of prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuations of stock prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuations of the Ksh rate against the dollar | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Food for pupils | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Foreign Competition | 63 |
0.3%
|
|
| Fraud | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Fraud and fake money | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fraud and theft | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fraudsters | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Fund miss management | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Garbage is collected only once a week | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Geting qualified person to employ | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Giving goods on credit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Glass breakages leading to losses | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Goods get spoiled at times | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Goods not moving during the rainy season | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Gorvenment regulations | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Government not giving business tenders to business persons from within Amu subcounty | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Government policies | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Government regulations on time limitations | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Government tenders cannot be traced | 1 |
0%
|
|
| HIGH COST OF GOODS | 4 |
0%
|
|
| HIGH COST OF LIVING | 1 |
0%
|
|
| HIGH COST OF LIVING,OUR CUSTOMERS ARE LOW INCOME EARNERS | 1 |
0%
|
|
| HIGH TRANSPORT COSTS | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Harassment by county officials when they demand for the license | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Harassment by government bodies | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Harassment by police | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Harassment by police officers & local administration | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Harassment by the police | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Harassment of clients by county officers for parking fees even when just stopping for a while to purchase goods and leave | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Hawkers distabance | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Health issues | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Heavy and inconsitency electicity and water bills | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Heavy rains | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High Infaltion | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High Inflation rates | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High Interest rate | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High Interest rates charged to customers due to heavy borrowing by the government | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High Internet costs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High Prices of products | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High borrowing from customers | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High borrowing from the customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost and fluctuations of goods | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of doing business | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of drugs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of electricity | 4 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of electricity and rent | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of goods | 4 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of goods in the market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of inputs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of living as opposed to income | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of machinery | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of purchases | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of raw materials | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of rent | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of storage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of tenancy | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of the animals | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of transport | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High credit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High debts from the customers | 3 |
0%
|
|
| High electricity bill | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High electricity bills | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High electricity charges | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High employee turnover rate | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High fee rate for the people in the area | 3 |
0%
|
|
| High inflation rate especially on raw materials which end up negatively affecting us on the costing of our products | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High inflation rates | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High interest on loans | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High interest rate | 4 |
0%
|
|
| High interest rates | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High interest rates on loans | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High interests on bank loans | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High loan interest | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High maintenance costs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High maintenance costs of machines | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High paying rates of electricity | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High power costs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High price of commodities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High price of stock | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High prices for goods for re stocking | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High prices of commodities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High prices of comondities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High prices of goods | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High prices of products | 3 |
0%
|
|
| High pricing of commodities by suppliers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High product prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High purchase price of raw materials | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High rates of rent | 10 |
0%
|
|
| High rent | 6 |
0%
|
|
| High rents | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High turnover rates | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Highly perishable good | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Hiked prices of the stock | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Hiking prices of drugs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| His apprentices are not absorbed by the job market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| House rent hicking | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Household Expenditure | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Household problems | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Huge Debts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Huge business debts | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Huge debts | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Huge debts from customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Huge debts from customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Human resource | 1 |
0%
|
|
| INCONVENIENCED IN THE ATTEMPT TO GET A LOAN | 1 |
0%
|
|
| INFLATION | 1 |
0%
|
|
| INSUFFICIENT FUNDS FOR OPERATION | 2 |
0%
|
|
| If food remains unsold it becomes a very big loss | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Illegal hawking | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Illegal market of smuggled beer | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Illetracy level of parents | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Illiteracy | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Impact of HIV-AIDS | 15 |
0.1%
|
|
| In disciplined employees | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Inability by parents to pay school fees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inability of pupils to meet payment of school fee. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inability to access financial support | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inaccessibility to electricity | 425 |
2.1%
|
|
| Inadequate working Capital | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate capital | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate capital to run the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate machinery | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate operating funds | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate operation time | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate purchasing power of the people in the catchment area | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate service from county government | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate time for operation | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Increase in rent | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Increase of power application fees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Indiscipline of workers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inefficient services from the county government | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Infestation of stored grains by wevils | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inflated prices | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Inflation | 6 |
0%
|
|
| Insecurity | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Insecurity, high charges of county licences | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Instability of disel price | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficiency of cash from customers | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficiency of funds as loans are inaccessible | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficiency of funds from parents | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficiency of money in circulation | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficient network signals | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficient capital | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficient finance | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficient working capital | 7 |
0%
|
|
| Interference by Brokers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Interference from authorities | 359 |
1.7%
|
|
| Interference from owner | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Irregular prices of commodities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| It is along the riverside and due to floods and cut off destroys a number of trees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Jealousy | 1 |
0%
|
|
| LOW PROFIT MARGIN | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack enough capital to run the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of stable staff | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack money to expand the business | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of Capital | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of Government non financial services | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of a good premise | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of ability to pay school fees by parents | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of additional capital | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of additional working capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of adequate fund to run the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of adequate stock | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of affordable working capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of capital | 6 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of circulation of funds in the economy | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of collateral for credit | 529 |
2.6%
|
|
| Lack of committment from co owners | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of customers | 6 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of customers (low demand) | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of drainage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of efficient labour force | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of electricity | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of employees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of enough capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of enough money | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of enough operating funds | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of facilities | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of financial support apart from loan | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of firewood | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of fuel | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of funds | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of funds to finance projects in progress | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of government support | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of guarantors | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of insurance from fire | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of land for expansion. | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of loans | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of machines | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of markets | 1672 |
8.1%
|
|
| Lack of network | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of operating funds | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of operation capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of proper Waste disporsal mechanism | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of proper waste disposal facilities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of proper working premises, | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of refregerated vehicles for long distance milk transport | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of reliable employees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of security lights | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of seeds within the county in the research centre | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of sewage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of sewer systems | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of skilled manpower | 237 |
1.1%
|
|
| Lack of slaughter within the area which makes transportation of goats expensive | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of space | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of storage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of sufficient tools | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of tastes and preferences by customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of tenders | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of toilet facilities | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of toilet facilities in the market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of transport vehicle | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of trusted employees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of working capital | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Landlord not repairing the room hence high cost of maintenance | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Landlord setting high rent | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Landlords | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Language barrier | 4 |
0%
|
|
| Late payment from clients | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Late payment of stock taken on credit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Late supply of number plates yet they pay tax duty | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lengthy paper process of customs office for goods that are coming across the border | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Less customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Less equipment | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Less opening hours | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Less operating hours | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Less profit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Less working hours | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Licenses | 1594 |
7.7%
|
|
| Limited operating hours | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Loan qualities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Loaning syatem in the county | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Local competition | 2363 |
11.4%
|
|
| Location | 5 |
0%
|
|
| Long process to register with Ministry of Education | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low buying power of clients | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low customer turn out | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low customer turnout | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low demand | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Low economic status of clientele | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low economy & few customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low income from our buyers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low level of technology due to lack of cash | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low operating funds | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Low population | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low purchasing power of locals | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low quality sanitation in the public toilets and garbage not collected by county council | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low sales | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low season | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low stock turnover | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low supply of Keg beer | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low turn up of customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Luck of sufficient cash to stock | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Machine breakdown | 6 |
0%
|
|
| Machine problems | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Machines breakdowns and water catchment inside the quarry | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Maintanance costs high | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Maintanance of my old computer | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Many Debtors | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Many imposters in the industry | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Market flactuation | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Market flatuation | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Matatus in the cbd cause overcrowding | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Meat going bad | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Meat is easily perishable | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Meeting standards of certain customers | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Missbehaviour of Customers to pay | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Misshandling of the stock | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Mistaking agent numbers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Mobile network problems | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Monthly bills | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Most money was used to take child to a special school | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Most people want to be served on credit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| NAWASCO POLICY OF DOUBLINGX THE WATER BILL | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Name branding drags down the market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Needy pupils and students | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Negativity | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Neglect from government | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Neighbour interference. Machines produce alot of noise | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Network issues | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Network problems | 2 |
0%
|
|
| No access to banks | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No access to money | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No commercial premises | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No drainage system | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No dustbin | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No enough turnover | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No farming in the area hence no vegetables | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No finanicial institutions around to keep money | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No flow of cash | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No money | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No parking for drivers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No proper advertisement of the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No security lights | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No toilets | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Noise Pollution from garages and workshops | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Noise which causes disturbances to the readers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Non paying customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Non payment from served customers | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Non-payments | 1 |
0%
|
|
| None | 6584 |
31.8%
|
|
| Not accessible to loans | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Not paying school fee | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Numerous authorities to deal with when it comes to licensing issues | 2 |
0%
|
|
| OTHER REVENUES-CATERING LEVIES TOO HIGH | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Obstruction of business premise | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Obstruction of business premises by psvs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Officers use poor language | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Oil prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Open sewage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Opening and closing time | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Operation time is limited | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Other government Regulations | 324 |
1.6%
|
|
| Over estimate kilograms of cow then sell at a loss | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Parents not paying | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Parents Dont pay fees on time | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Parents delay fee payments | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Parents dont pay on time | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Parents not paying in time | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Parking space | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Patients are not able to pay for services | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Pay rise in stock | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Paying people on credit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Payment of fees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| People borrowing and not paying | 2 |
0%
|
|
| People don't have money | 1 |
0%
|
|
| People migration during drought | 2 |
0%
|
|
| People not paying up credits.. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| People taking things on credit thus bringing down the sales | 1 |
0%
|
|
| People taking credit without pay | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Personal problems | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Personnel being taken away by TSC | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poeple eating without paying thus makes it hard to get good profit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Police officers harassment | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Political disturbance, protests | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Political interference | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Political stability | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor Drainage | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Poor Gabbage collection by county council | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor IT services | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor Sanitation | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Poor access to water supply | 828 |
4%
|
|
| Poor customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor drainage | 15 |
0.1%
|
|
| Poor drainage at site | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor drainage of water from the road during rainy seasons | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor economic performance due poor fishing | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor economy | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor electricity supply | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor maintenance of slaughter houses | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor management | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor management by county government | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor network | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor payment of fee | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor payment rate from customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor phone networks and dumping of litter everywhere | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor quality of goods | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor rainfall leading to poor harvest | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor salaries | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor sanitation | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor security | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Poor security around the area | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Poor supply of beer | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor toilet facilities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor water connections | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor working relation with the county government, unfair awarding of tenders | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poverty | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poverty ofthecustomers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Power charges is very high | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Power interruption | 1017 |
4.9%
|
|
| Price differences between suppliers and the market prices. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Price flactuation | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Price flactuations | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Price fluctuations | 5 |
0%
|
|
| Price variation | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Prices are too high | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Prices fluctuations | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Prices fluctuations which makes them to buy less stock | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Prices of products are too high | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Prime area/location for business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Problem in payment | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Proper lighting | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Propose market day to boost business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Public health licenses | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Pupils relocating | 7 |
0%
|
|
| Purchases goods at a high rate | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Quacks in the proffesion | 1 |
0%
|
|
| RANDOM EVICTION BY LANDLORDS | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rain | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Rainy season it becomes difficult to bring stock | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rapid technological advances | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Regular power black outs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Relocation to another place, lost customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Relocation without prior notice | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rent | 10 |
0%
|
|
| Rent has been costly and delay of goods sold on credit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rent increase | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rent is high | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rent is very expensive | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rental business houses are expensive | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rental houses are high | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rental houses raised too much | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Retention of employees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rise of cost of goods | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Risk of fire | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Road Accidents | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Sales on credit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Season flactuation | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonal | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonal business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonal fishing at Port victoria | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonal variations | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonal varietion | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonality | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonality of business | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonality of schools | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonality of the business in malindi | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonality of the business sector due to tourism and insecurity | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonlity of business in malindi due to tourism sector | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Second hand clothes customers prefer them over tailored clothes | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Selling goods on credit and customers refuses to pay | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Sewage drainage tunnel placed just in front of the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Seweg | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Short working hours | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Shortage of agents | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Shortage of cash to run the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Shortage of farmers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Shortage of funds for expansion | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Shortage of funds to cater for expansion | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Shortage of operating funds | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Shortage of raw materials or stock | 585 |
2.8%
|
|
| Shortage of teachers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Sickness | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Site not good for customers it's in a hidden place | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Slow circulation of money | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Slow electricity connection | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Slowed economic growth of narok town | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Some businesses dont pay licences | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Some customers dont pay their debt | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Some goods got spoiled because of being placed directly in the ground without knowledge | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Sometimes there is low internet connection | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Space too small | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Staff leaving unconciderably | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Stock bought in wholesake get spoilt | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Stock hikes | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Stock is too expensive to purchase | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Sub standard goods flooding the market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Syllabus keeps changing | 1 |
0%
|
|
| TOO HIGH RENTS | 3 |
0%
|
|
| TOO HIGH RENTS COST | 1 |
0%
|
|
| TRAFFIC JAM | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Take debts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Taxes | 252 |
1.2%
|
|
| Technical problem with the machines | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Technology | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Termination of contracts from clients | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The cost of raw materials is very high. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The economy is bad | 2 |
0%
|
|
| The housing and drainage is poor | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The low tourism season | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The office is not accessible to the customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The requirement of not allowing children inside the video room | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The sun is too hot | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The town is dirty | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The weather | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Theft | 4 |
0%
|
|
| Theft by former employee | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Theft from Conmen | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Theft from employees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| There's is no money in the economy. | 2 |
0%
|
|
| There's no economic support in this region. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| They are normally caught because of pirated movies of which they are not aware they are pirated when they buy from distributors | 1 |
0%
|
|
| They are selling completely new products which the customers don't understand | 1 |
0%
|
|
| They dont educate on the strategy of paying up the loan | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Thieves stealing stock from the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Threatening of the business place by owner | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Time of operation | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Time of operation is short | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Too many creditors | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Too many debtors | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Too many people want goods on credit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Too many unpaid debts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Too much garbage everywhere | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Too much supplies in the market | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Traffic causing late delivery of food products | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Transfers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Transport costs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Transport costs of materials | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Tribalism in relation to the business | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Troublesome staff | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Unfair competition | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Unfaithful employees who steal from the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Unfriendly customer base | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Unpaid credits | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Unstable employees | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Unstable market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Unteliable employees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Untrustworthy customers who delay payments | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Untrustworthy workers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Unwilling landlord | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Uses solar so when there is no sound no business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| VERY HIGH RENTS | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Waste disposal | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Water | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Water floods in the premises during rainy seasons | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Weather | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Weather changes | 1 |
0%
|
|
| When the staff of the hospital go on strike it affects the buisness because it's within the premises | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Wholesalers and supermarkets competition due to better prices than us | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Work time permit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Workers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Workers coming late | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Workers inconsistency | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Workers steal money from hotels at times | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Working capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Wrong deposits | 1 |
0%
|
|
| accident | 2 |
0%
|
|
| bad debts | 3 |
0%
|
|
| capital constraints | 1 |
0%
|
|
| climate condition | 1 |
0%
|
|
| drainage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| exp3nsive transport | 1 |
0%
|
|
| expensive rent | 1 |
0%
|
|
| floods and poor drainage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| high rents | 1 |
0%
|
|
| insufficient protective wears | 1 |
0%
|
|
| interference from tenant | 1 |
0%
|
|
| internet | 3 |
0%
|
|
| lack of enterpreenurial knowledge | 1 |
0%
|
|
| lack of loan | 1 |
0%
|
|
| lack of space | 280 |
1.4%
|
|
| low meat prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| no electricity | 1 |
0%
|
|
| poor roads/transport | 1556 |
7.5%
|
|
| poor security | 1008 |
4.9%
|
|
| poor security and poor toilet facilities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| sell of second hand clothes | 2 |
0%
|
|
| tenancy | 2 |
0%
|
|
| the customers reduced in number | 1 |
0%
|
|
| threat from the locals | 1 |
0%
|
|
| tribalism | 1 |
0%
|
|
| when schools closes | 1 |
0%
|
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.