FACTORS AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN MICRO ...

CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND
DISCUSSION OF RESULTS
This chapter presents and analyzes the data collected and discusses it accordingly. First,
the demographic profile of respondents is analyzed and presented followed by the
characteristics of women entrepreneurs in MESs. Both are analyzed using frequency
tables and percentages. Thirdly, the data related to the factors that affect the performance
of women entrepreneurs and the areas of support between TVETs and MSEs are
presented and analyzed. Mean and standard deviations are used for the presentation and
analysis of these parts. Finally, discussions are made based on the data presented and
analyzed.
Of the totally distributed questionnaires (203), 197 were properly filled and collected.
This amounts 97.04% of the total respondents. Since this is adequate enough to make the
analysis, all the discussions below are made on these groups of respondents.
4.1 Presentation and analysis
In this part, the data collected in answering the basic questions are presented and
analyzed.
4.1.1 Demographic profile of respondents
The following table summarizes the demographic profile of respondents by age,
educational level, work experience and marital status.
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