Assessment of motivational patterns of women entrepreneurs in ngo sector and their impact on economic development case Study
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Source: Field Survey, 2007 Structure of Respondents’ Business The structure of business covered by the survey of the study shows that 382(91%) are sole trade business, 27(6%) are partnership business, 3(0.7%) belong to the category of company while 10(2.4%) are under cooperative society. Table 39: Descriptive Statistics of Entrepreneurs by Structure of their businesses.
Source: Field Survey, 2007 Number of Dependant Relatives and Age of the Respondents Looking at the number of dependents of the respondents, the survey revealed that 136(32.2%) have one dependant, 171(40.5%) have two dependants, 37 (8.7%) have three dependants, 34(8%) have 4 dependants while 44(10.6%) have five dependants and above. Majority of the women entrepreneurs, 174 (41.23%) interviewed were between the ages of 31-35. This was followed by the age range of 21-26 which is 155 (36.72%). It was observed that few of them are either too young between ages 15 and 20 (4.26%) or too old between the ages of 40 and above 75 (17.78%). Table 40:Descriptive Statistics of Entrepreneurs by Number of Dependants and Age
Source: Field Survey, 2007 State of Origin and Ethnic Background of the Respondents Table 41 revealed that 138(32.7%) of the women entrepreneurs under the study are from Lagos State, 134(31.7%) of them are from Ogun State and 150 (35.6%) of them are from Oyo State. The ethnic background of those surveyed was Yoruba 388 (92%), Ibo 22(5%), Hausa 10 (2.0%), and minority 2(0.5%). Table 41: Descriptive Statistics of Entrepreneurs by Tribe and State of Origin
Source: Field Survey, 2007 Age of Starting the Business and Educational Background Table 42 was designed to capture the statistics on age of establishment and educational background of the respondents. Few of the respondents 18(4%) were at the age range of 15-20 when they started business, 155(37 %) were at the age range of 21-26 when they started their business, 174 (41%) were at the age range of 31-35 when they started their business while 51(12%) were between the age of 40 and 45 when their business started while 24(6%) of them were 46 old and above when they started their business. Considering the respondents educational qualification, majority of them 344 (82%) have WASE, 54(13%) of them are with OND certificates, 15 (4%) are with HND/BSc certificates while only 4 (1%) obtained MSc status in their certification and only 2(0.5%) have other certificates which was not actually specified. Table 42: Descriptive Statistics of Entrepreneurs by Education and the Age they Started Business
Source: Field Survey, 2007 Marital Status and Number of Children of the Respondents Out of the 422 respondents, it was observed that 263 (62%) were married while 146 (35%) are still single, 7 (3%) of them are divorced while 6(2%) of them are widow. Two hundred and two or 48% of them have two children, 102 (24 %) of them have three children, 48 (11%) had 4 children while 24 (6%) of them have five dependants and above. Table 43: Descriptive Statistics of Entrepreneurs by Marital Status and Number of Children
Source: Field Survey, 2007 Length of Work Experience and when the Business was Started The majority of the women entrepreneurs surveyed had prior experience in their fields of endeavour. For example, out of the 422 women entrepreneurs, 10(2.4%) of the respondents had less than one year working experience, 48 (11.3%) of the respondents has one year working experience, 202 (47.8%) of them worked two years, 136 (32.2%) had working experience of three years, while 20(4.7%) and 6(1.6%) had a working experience of between four and five years respectively before they started their business. In other words, out of the women that owned business, more than half of them had related prior experience in their kind of trade. The survey also revealed that 20(4.74%) of the respondents established their business in less than one year ago, 130(30.80%) of the women under the study started their business in the last one year, 66 (15.64%) of them started their business in the last two years, 45 (10.66%) of them started their business in the last three years, 36 (8.53%) started their business in the last four years while 25 (29.6%) of them started their business in the last six years and above, 100 (23.70%) of them started their business in the last six years and above Table 44: Descriptive Statistics of Respondents by Length of Work Experience and when the Business was Started.
Source: Field Survey, 2007 How the Business was started and Branches of the Business Considering how the respondents started their businesses, the survey revealed that 243(58%) of them started their businesses from the scratch, 73(17%) of them purchased their businesses, 50(12%) of them inherited their businesses while 56 (13%) of them joined their husband to start their business. Looking at the number of branches of their business, it was discovered that 253(60%) of them have one branch, 98(23%) have two branches, 48(11%) have three branches, 17(4%) have four branches while 6(2%) have five branches. Table 45: Descriptive Statistics of Respondents by Modalities for Establishment and Number of Branches
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