Statements

N

Mean

STD Dev

Variance

Rank

Some women feel spending two or three days training will amount to loss of sales revenue and therefore will refuse to attend.

120

3.22

1.003

1.007

1

For training to be effective, it has to be made highly affordable if not free.

120

3.00

1.085

1.176

2

Owing to the fact that some traders have low level of education, there will be the need to organize some aspects of the training packages in suitable languages.

120

2.94

1.162

1.350

3

Traders want incentives such as linking them up to financial institutions for soft loans prior to attending such training sessions.

120

2.56

1.338

1.791

4

Difficulty in getting consultants who can easily reduce terminologies in financial management customer care, marketing management, people management, succession plan etc. into the local languages for the illiterate members of the traders.

120

2.42

1.265

1.653

5

Small business operators are not willing to join both social security schemes and micro insurance schemes as means of insuring their lives and business respectively.

120

2.38

1.326

1.759

6