Business Report: Presentation and Analysis of Survey Data (Chapter 4)

This report, focusing on Chapter 4, details the presentation and analysis of survey data collected from women entrepreneurs in Oman. The study employs SPSS for descriptive and correlation analysis, presenting findings through tables, graphs, and charts. The analysis explores various domains, including family, social, financial, and political aspects, identifying key challenges such as lack of family support, male dominance, weak bargaining power, and lack of experience. The report also includes qualitative analysis, referencing existing literature to contextualize the findings within the broader landscape of women entrepreneurship in the Arab world, highlighting issues like limited work opportunities and discrimination. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and provides an overview of the data analysis process, emphasizing the use of statistical tools and the relevance of the literature review. The data reveals that although most of the women entrepreneurs are educated, they face challenges due to family obligations, and lack of experience. The report then provides data for the financial and economic domain, background knowledge and political and environmental domain.

PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
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Chapter 4: Presentation and Analysis of Data
4.1 Introduction
The data collected from the survey has been computed and translated into numeric code for the
exact percentage using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for the descriptive
analysis of the variables. The statistical tools that have been used on the collected data are
descriptive statistics, and correlation analysis. The data is also represented in the forms of graphs
and charts which are mad in SPSS itself. The descriptive statistics will help in viewing the data
in concise form and the correlation analysis will help in understanding the relationship between
the different variables identified for the study. The results will help in understanding whether it
satisfies the hypotheses or not.
4.2 Survey findings
Characteristics of the respondents
Descriptive Statistics
N Minimum Maximum Mean
Std.
Deviation
Respondent ID 20 2.E8 2.E8 2.02E8 5.916
Marital Status 20 1 4 2.25 .967
Eductional Level 20 2 6 3.05 1.191
Work Experience 20 1 1 1.00 .000
Age of Participants 20 1 3 2.05 .605

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Country of Education 20 1 1 1.00 .000
Lack of family support
and orthodoxies 20 1 3 2.05 .605
Family Obligations 20 2 3 2.35 .489
Male Dominance 20 2 3 2.30 .470
Hostility of Society
towards engagement of
women in business
20 2 4 2.75 .639
Non-cooperation of
male counterparts 20 2 4 2.75 .851
Difficulty in dealing
with Males 20 2 4 2.90 1.021
Weak bargaining
positions 20 2 2 2.00 .000
Harassment 20 3 4 3.80 .410
Lack of Experience 20 1 2 1.20 .410
Lack of Proper
Trainings 20 1 2 1.20 .410
Poor credit faciliites for
wormen 20 2 4 3.00 .562
Lack of Finances 20 3 4 3.35 .489

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Heavy taxes, fees,
duties, etc. 20 4 5 4.15 .366
Inflation 20 4.0 5.0 4.150 .3663
Lack of political
experience 20 1 3 1.70 .657
Lack of proper political
trainings 20 1 3 1.45 .605
Stringent regulations
and policies 20 3 4 3.20 .410
Red-tape, bribery, etc. 20 1 2 1.75 .444
Lack of governmental
support 20 2 3 2.45 .510
Improper Training and
Development
Facilities/Centers
20 1 2 1.20 .410
Valid N (listwise) 20
The table above shows that the maximum women who have responded to the questionnaire are
widow and most of them have attained the education level up to PhD. Most of them have an
experience of working between 1-5 years and most of them are between the age group of 36-50
years. Almost all of them have obtained their education degree from Oman.
When they were asked about the factors that affect them as entrepreneurs in Oman, most of them
agreed to the factors related to weak bargaining power, lack of experience and lack of proper
trainings. To all other factors, either they responded neutrally or they disagreed to them. When
they were asked about the financial and economic domain, then also most of them did not agree

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with any of the factors. The respondents agreed to the factor of existence of red-tape or bribery,
and the improper training and the development facilities for the domain of political and
environmental background knowledge.
Questionnaire
The questionnaire was given to 35 women for rating and 20 of them returned the questionnaire
with the rating score and they were filled completely. The questionnaire was guided by the
knowledgeable people in the field. The questionnaire is formed on the basis of Likert scale. The
set of questions were divided into 5 parts. They are: Demographic (1) Family, self and Social
Domain (2) Financial & Economic Domain (3) Background Knowledge (4) and Political &
Environmental Domain (5). The sample of the questionnaire can be found in the appendix.
The questionnaire is valid and reliable because the reliability and validity was tested using the
Cronbach’s Alpha in the SPSS. This helps in measuring the internal consistency i.e. it tells that
how close are the items in the study as a group. The alpha was more than 0.70 which means that
the level of consistency is acceptable and the data can be used for analysis.

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4.3 Analysis using Statistical Packages
Family, Self and Social Domain of Respondents
From the above table, it can be analyzed that 65% of the women are married, 20% are widow
and 15% are single.

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From the above table, it can be analyzed that 40% of women have attained education till
secondary level, 35% of women have done diploma, 10% have studied till bachelors, 10% have
done masters and only 5% are PhD.
From the above table, it can be analyzed that all the 20 women who have responded to the
questionnaire, i.e. 100% of the respondents have a work experience of 1-5 years.

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From the above table, it can be analyzed that 65% of the women respondents are between the
age-group of 22-35 years, 20% are between the age group of 36-50 years and only 15% are less
than 20 years old.

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From the above table, it can be analyzed that 100% of the respondents have chosen Oman as
their country of education.
From the above table, it can be analyzed that 65% of the respondents agree that lack of family
support and orthodoxies existed, 15% strongly agreed to it and only 20% of them were neutral
for this factor.

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From the above table, it can be analyzed that 65% of the respondents agree that they have the
family obligations and 35% of them are neutral for that.
From the above table, it can be analyzed that 70% of the women agree that male dominance
prevails in the society and 30% are neutral for that.

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From the given table, it can be analyzed that 35 % of the respondents agree that the hostility of
the society towards the involvement of women in business existed. 10% of the respondents
disagree with this factor and the other 35% of them remained neutral.

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From the above given factor, it can be analyzed that 50% of the respondents agree that face non-
cooperation of male counterparts. 25% of the respondents disagree to the factor and the
remaining 25% were neutral.
From the above table, it can be analyzed that 55% of the respondents agree that they face
difficulties in dealing with the males and the remaining 45 % of the respondents disagree with
this factor.