Flash Eurobarometer 146 (Entrepreneurship 2003)

• Main Authors: Soufflot de Magny, Renaud, Debyser, Ariane
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.4156; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA4156?lang=de; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA4156?lang=en

Attitudes towards entrepreneurship. Topics: preferred employment status: employed, self-employed; activities in starting a business; considerations with regard to starting a business; preference to set up new business or to take over existing one; best qualified advisors with regard to staring own business: lawyer or private consultant, bank, chamber of commerce or professional association, public support organisation for businesses, other entrepreneurs, friends or relatives, other; preferred teaching on how to run own business at: secondary school, technical secondary school, university or other tertiary level of education, specific courses for adults, nowhere, elsewhere; attitude towards the following statements on the national education system: develops a state of mind in young people which encourages them to create a firm, does not develop a state of mind in young people which encourages them to create a firm; attitude towards the following statements with regard to starting a business: is difficult due to lack of financial support, is difficult due to complex administrative procedures, readiness to invest free time in courses on how to run a business, possibility to have a second chance, less inclined to order goods from someone who has failed before, no investment in business that failed in the past, risk of failure, bad economic climate; most important risks for setting up a business; most important reasons for most of the businesses being one-person businesses; assumed time needed for administrative procedures when hiring first employee. Demography: sex; age; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; region; type of community; parents’ occupation. Additionally coded was: country; question number; weighting factor. Einstellungen zur Selbständigkeit und zum Unternehmertum. Themen: Präferierter beruflicher Status (angestellt oder selbständig); eigene Gedanken über eine Unternehmensgründung oder Übernahme eines Unternehmens sowie tatsächliche eigene unternehmerische Tätigkeiten; ...