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

The grand mean (2.49) and grand standard deviation (0.1) in the above table clearly
depicts that the economic factors are Sevier than the others followed by the legal and
administrative factors that has a grand mean of (2.59) and a grand standard deviation of
(0.06).
The table also shows that the impact of the socio-cultural factors is better than the
economic, legal and administrative factors as the grand mean (3.18) and grand standard
deviations (0.12) clearly depict.
4.1.5 Supports given by TVET institutions to women entrepreneurs in
MSEs
Even though TVETs are not expected to tackle all the problems that women
entrepreneurs in MSEs face, there are some supports that can be taken as a
responsibilities of TVET colleges and institutes. By the following table, it is tried to
assess whether TVETs are providing the required supports to MSEs or not.
Table 20. Summary of the Supports Given by TVETs to MSEs
No. Item
Supports given by TVETs to MSEs
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Mean
Standard
deviation
rank of
supports
Training support
1 TVETs provide entrepreneurship training to MSEs 1.87 1.08 8 th
2 TVETs provide marketing training to MSEs 1.96 1.16 6 th
3 TVETs provide planning and financial report training to
MSEs
1.93 1.15 7 th
4 TVETs provide machine maintenance training to MSEs 3.22 1.62 5 th
5 TVETs provide customer service training to MSEs 1.76 0.92 12 th
6 TVETs provide technical skill training to MSEs 3.74 1.45 3 rd
7
Machine support
TVETs provide machine maintenance service to MSEs 3.85 1.37 2 nd
8 TVETs provide machines support(gifts) to MSEs 1.82 0.98 10 th
Financial, technology, raw material and facility supports
9 TVETs provide Financial supports to MSEs 1.84 1 9 th
10 TVETs provide Technology supports to MSEs 3.88 1.37 1 st
11 TVETs provide Raw material supports to MSEs 1.79 0.98 11 th
12 TVETs provide Facility(such as transportation) and furniture
supports to MSEs
3.65 1.49 4 th
Grand mean/standard deviation 2.61 0.23