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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acquiring expired supplies | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Annual rent increase | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Availability of fruits is sometimes wanting | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Bad debt | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Bad debtors | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Bad debts | 7 |
0%
|
|
| Bad view of people on video shows | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Bad weather | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Bedbugs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Better discounts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Breakages | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Business inaccessibility | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Business making losses due to high costs of running business as a result of high purchase prices | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Buying prices of good too high | 1 |
0%
|
|
| CLIMATE CHANGES | 1 |
0%
|
|
| COUNTERFEIT GOODS ARE SO MUCH IN THE MARKET | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Capital problem | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cashflow problems in the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cause of timber | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Change of prices from the suppliers affect buisness | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Change of technology | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Charcoal as the main source of fuel, | 1 |
0%
|
|
| City council doesn't collect refuse | 1 |
0%
|
|
| City council keep introducing laws they are nit aware | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Cleanliness and sanitation | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Climate changes | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Competitors operating during restricted hours | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Corn mens | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Corruption | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Corruption in kenya thus other businesses favoured because they give bribes | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Corruption issues about tendering | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Cost of food | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Costly inputs | 2 |
0%
|
|
| County government staff misstreatment of employees and miss management off situations | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Currency fluctuations | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customer issues with regards to returning merchandise | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers available for few hours | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers not paying | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Customers delaying in payment. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers not paying up | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Customers prefers mutumba | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Debtors ran away without paying their debts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Debtors who ran away without paying | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Debts | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Delay of customers' credits | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Delay of imported goods | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Destruction by insects like weevils | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Diagonising challenges | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Dirty environment | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Drainage poor | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Drainage system very poor. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Drunkards go without paying | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Early pregnancies | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Economic situation | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Electricity cost | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Employees not trustworthy | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Employer has no requared qualification | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Eviction from premises by the landlord | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expensive charcoal/firewood for cooking, poor roads | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expensive goods | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Expensive transport | 1 |
0%
|
|
| FEW WORKING HOURS | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Family consumption | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Financial | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fire which has been burning people properties | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Flexible loan rapayment modes | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Flooding | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Flooding during rainy season | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Flooding of water into the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Floods | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Floods in town | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuation of prices of beverages | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuations in enrollment of students for cooking lessons | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fluctuations in the oil prices | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Food howcking | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Foreign Competition | 52 |
0.4%
|
|
| Foul water | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fraud | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Fuel prices are not stable | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Garbage collection | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Garbage collection is not done by the county in the locale | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Garbage is becoming an issue and a health hazard since landlords are building houses and they cannot leave a place to throw away the garbage therefore people end up dumping anywhere and it becomes a risk to the society | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Goods stored for a long period of time without collection after being repaired | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Government contracts pay less and payments are always delayed | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Government delays payment of LPOs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| HIGH COMMODITY PRICES | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Harassment by police | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Harassment by police officers | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Harassment by the police | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Hard economic times | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Hawkers distabance | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Health hazards associated with business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High borrowing by customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High Inflation rates | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High amount of rent. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of fuel | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of living | 3 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of rent | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High cost of water and electricity | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High debts from the customers | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High interest bank rates | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High interest on loan | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High loan interests | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High loans interest | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High maintenance costs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High operating costs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High poverty due to poor markets | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High poverty levels... poor climatic conditions, | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High power rates | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High price charges of licences | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High price level of fuel | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High price of stock | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High prices of products | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High purchase price of material in the market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High purchase prices of raw materials | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High rent | 5 |
0%
|
|
| High rent and terrorism threats affect business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High rent and the house is leaking | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High rent cost | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High rent costs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| High rent rates | 2 |
0%
|
|
| High tenancy fee | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Hiked prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Hiking of prices | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Hiking of rent all the time | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Household problems. | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Huge debts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| INFLATION | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Illiteracy ot the customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Impact of HIV-AIDS | 6 |
0%
|
|
| Impact of disease. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| In this area, there are no jobs. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inaccessibility to electricity | 248 |
1.8%
|
|
| Inadequate machines | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate Working capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate capital to run the business | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate funds | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate operating funds | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate operation time | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inadequate washrooms in the council market | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Inappropriate business site | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Incompetent employees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inconsistency of getting clients on regular basis | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Increase in rent | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Increased prices of products | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Increased rent rate | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inflation | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inflation rates | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inflation rates are high in the economy thus affecting business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Inflexibility of prices in the town | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Influx of traders from other areas who sell their clothes in the local market at cheaper prices. These traders since they don't pay the annual licenses afford to sell their wares at cheaper prices making the residents' wares less competitive | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficiency of funds | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficient capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficient funds | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficient network signals | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Insufficient working capital | 4 |
0%
|
|
| Interferance from society | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Interference by weather | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Interference from authorities | 221 |
1.6%
|
|
| Interference from neighbours | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Internet interruption | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Interruption by mechanics who are all over lower kirinyaga road making it clumsy and crowded causing fear to customers thus low sales | 1 |
0%
|
|
| LACK OF MANPOWER | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack & high cost of spare parts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of well developed sewerage systems in kiligoris town | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of Atm machines around to withdraw cash | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of adequate capital | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of admission of private school pupils during the form 1 selection | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of affordable credit facilities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of capacity to hold bigger events | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of capital | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of collateral for credit | 411 |
2.9%
|
|
| Lack of dedicated manpower | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of dustbins and they pay for it. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of electricity | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of electricity connection | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of enough Capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of enough capital | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of enough machinery | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of enough money for stocking | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of faith from customers who want to buy things we sell so cheap | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of finances | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of fuel for operations | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of gabage collection services from county council | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of government incentives | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of internet | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of machinery | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of markets | 697 |
4.9%
|
|
| Lack of mobile networks | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of money | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of proper toilet facilities and expensive parking fees | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of shade | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of skilled manpower | 142 |
1%
|
|
| Lack of skills | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of space for solid disposal | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of specialist equipment like milk gun | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of sponsorship | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of sport facilities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of standards in rental charges | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of technical equipments to necessitate offering of some services. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of technology | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of toilet | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lack of waste water disposal mechanisms | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Land increase rents without notice | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Landlord regulations that at most may lead to them being evicted | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Late payment of school fees | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Late payments | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Lent increment | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Less customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Licenses | 785 |
5.6%
|
|
| Loan us | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Local competition | 1225 |
8.7%
|
|
| Location of the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Losses due to failure to pay by customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low Salaries | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Low economic performance | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low floats and at times wrongful transactions occurring | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low level of technology | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low operating hours for bars thus hurting business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low purchasing power from residents | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low purchasing power of locals | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Low school children population | 1 |
0%
|
|
| MORE LOANS TO SERVICE THAN THE MONEY COMING IN | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Machine brakedown | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Maintenance costs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Marginal profit received | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Market fluctuations | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Materials prices going upeveryday i.e unstable for business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Meat going bad | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Melting raw material due to weather | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Members of the community taking goods on credit and taking Way too long to repay | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Metre box got burnt | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Miraa drying up | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Mismanagement | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Most of the people are unemployment and therefore accessing the services become a problem | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Mpesa was stolen | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Need government to compel employers to pay for employees health coverage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No garbage collection by county government | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No garbage collection in the market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No guarantors for the loan | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No public toilet in the market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| No public toilets | 1 |
0%
|
|
| None | 6171 |
43.7%
|
|
| Offering service for free | 1 |
0%
|
|
| One tribe dominates business | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Other government Regulations | 200 |
1.4%
|
|
| Own carelessness | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Parents delaying in fees payment | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Parents' debts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Paying rent | 1 |
0%
|
|
| People buy on credit alot | 1 |
0%
|
|
| People shying away due to the perception that business can only be done by men(gender discrimination) | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Pests | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Polulution from garbage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor Network | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor access to water supply | 608 |
4.3%
|
|
| Poor collection of garbage | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor debts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor drainage | 7 |
0%
|
|
| Poor drainage and infrastructure | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor drainage especially during rainy season | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor drainage system | 5 |
0%
|
|
| Poor drainage systems | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor environment | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor gabbage disposal near the business making the environment unpleasant for potential clients | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor housing | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor location | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor markets | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Poor mobile phone network | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor neighbourhood, challenging the parents to pay fees. | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor payment by parents | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor payment of fees | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Poor phone networks | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor sanitation | 6 |
0%
|
|
| Poor security | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Poor system of county council solid waste collection in the town | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Poor weather | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Poverty | 4 |
0%
|
|
| Poverty of the people | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Power black outs | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Power interruption | 633 |
4.5%
|
|
| Price changes | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Price chnge of commodities | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Price fluctuation | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Price fluctuations | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Price fluctuations and inflation effects | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Price regulations tropping | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Price set by the buyer (middlemen) | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Prices are too high | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Pupil transfer after class seven | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Refusal of customers to pay debt | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Rent | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rent is high | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rent so high | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rent too expensive | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rising prices of spare parts | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Risk of getting fake money from customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Rude clients | 1 |
0%
|
|
| SPREAD OF DISEASES AND INFECTIONS AMONG STUDENTS | 1 |
0%
|
|
| SUB-STANDARD GOODS | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Sales on credit | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Sales on credit and customers ends up not paying | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Sales on credit and notppaid | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Sanitation market | 1 |
0%
|
|
| School bus | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonality of the tourism sector | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Seasonlity of the business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Sewage | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Short runaways | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Shortage of raw materials or stock | 367 |
2.6%
|
|
| Sick with high blood pressure | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Slow growth | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Soil and fertilizer for planting tree seedlings availability | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Some parents don't pay for their children | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Source of stock is far | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Spending power of consumers has reduced | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Storage facilities | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Stubborn tribal customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Suppliers keep on increasing the price of goods | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Suppliers keeping their money | 1 |
0%
|
|
| TEACHER'S STRIKE | 1 |
0%
|
|
| TECHNICIANS NOT AVAILLABLE AROUND HERE | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Taxes | 161 |
1.1%
|
|
| Teacher poaching | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Technological changes | 12 |
0.1%
|
|
| Tenancy | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Terrorism | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The drainage system is so poor such that when it rains water pours in our business premises | 2 |
0%
|
|
| The economy is very low thus few customers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The landlord is demanding VAT from tenants | 1 |
0%
|
|
| The plan/Design of the work place is poor | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Theft | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Time to operate business | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Toilets | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Too much fines | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Total Turnover does'nt add up. | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Traffic jam affects business as most clients are from karen and thus due to traffic go to other vet clinics | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Traffic jams in the town lead to lower sales | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Tribalism | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Tsc takes teachers | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Un reliable safaricom network | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Unfavourable climate conditions | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Uninformed clients who do not pay in time | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Unreliable market prices | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Unwarranted rent increase by the landlord | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Varying work seasons | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Very many different athorities, requiring so many compliance, charging so much for licenses | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Waste disposal | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Waste not collected | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Weather conditions | 4 |
0%
|
|
| When she closes shop to go for purchases customers come and go | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Wholesalers retailing the same commodities | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Why is it always that when business people want to be funded, they have to belong to a certain group? | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Wild animals | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Wood goes bad after storage for long periods of time | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Worker leaving without notice | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Working Capital | 1 |
0%
|
|
| Working capital | 2 |
0%
|
|
| Workshop | 1 |
0%
|
|
| bad weather | 1 |
0%
|
|
| corruption in awarding of government tenders | 1 |
0%
|
|
| cost of supplies | 1 |
0%
|
|
| economy is bad. When we import goods we spend more | 1 |
0%
|
|
| fishermen being evacuated from fishing area hence stock getting low each day. at times closing down | 1 |
0%
|
|
| high price in products | 1 |
0%
|
|
| high rent charges | 1 |
0%
|
|
| illeteracy | 1 |
0%
|
|
| inadequate capital to run the business | 2 |
0%
|
|
| inflation | 1 |
0%
|
|
| lack of space | 284 |
2%
|
|
| lack of storage facilitity | 1 |
0%
|
|
| many credits | 1 |
0%
|
|
| no banks around have travel many kilo meters to get bank services | 1 |
0%
|
|
| poor drainge system | 1 |
0%
|
|
| poor roads/transport | 717 |
5.1%
|
|
| poor security | 703 |
5%
|
|
| price differences | 2 |
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.