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nition of collective and individual farms widely accepted in Tajikistan. It was found that the registration documents of farms do not always indicate whether they are individual or collective. Because a requirement to differentiate farms by their types was fundamental to fulfill survey sampling, IFC’s research team came up with a solution to use onetime definitions for collective and individual farms applicable only for the given survey. Proposed solution was to define collective farms as any reorganized kolkhozes or sovkhozes, with a number of employees greater than 100. Any farms with fewer than 100 employees, which were not reorganized kolkhozes or sovkhozes, were recognized as an individual farm. Patent holder versus Patents holder: According to law, the number of patents held by one person is not restricted, therefore people willing to run several businesses in different areas can obtain many patents. In cases where an individual held multiple patents and/or certificates, the individual was asked to report information only for one patent.
5 - SAMPLING FRAMEWORK Description of sample and its stratification The process of designing a statistically representative sample included a number of stages, such as defining a sample size, allocation of the sample among regions or defining regional sample quotas, and finally allocation of respondents by size, type and sector of economic activity according to their respective shares in regional incidence. Assuming unique homogeneity and considerable size in SME segment of the economy, all these stages of sample calculations were applied to each of the three sub-populations of the survey, specifically individual entrepreneurs, small and medium companies and dehkan farms. 1)Sample design for Individual entrepreneurs Defining interview points (rayons/cities) within each region Selection of the rayons for a survey within each region was based on 4% entrance threshold, according to which the rayon to be selected had to have size of a rayon’s population of individual entrepreneurs greater than 4% of the total incidence for a certain region. This approach for selection of rayons allowed surveying at least 5 respondents at each interview point which also fit the budgetary and logistical constraints of the survey. For the GBAO region, which was aggregated with DRS-B, a different approach was applied. In order to have a sufficient number of respondents at the regional level in GBAO, only the 3 biggest rayons in this region were selected to have at least 5 respondents in each. The table below presents distribution of individual entrepreneurs in selected rayons and cities.
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Business Environment in Tajikistan as Seen by Small and Medium Enterprises: Sampling Methodology