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More than 50% of the support was directed to the manufacturing sectors in the PUM-2015, 22% in Presidential Programme - 2010 and more than 50% in GIZ-2011.
The turn-over account €500.000 in average with 25% of the organisations with annual sales above € 1 million in case of PUM. In case of the Presidential Programme the turn-over gained by business contacts from 1 to 7 million in 50% of cases, from zero to 1 million in 50%. (In RUR) In case of GIZ there were up to € 1, 4 million investment (GIZ-2011).
3.2.4. Sample population
The combined responses from the “Organisations sample” (32 out of 480) and the “Alumni sample” (134 out of 400) is 166 respondents out of the total sample of 880 or 18.86%. In total (15) entrepreneurs/managers participated in the focus group discussions and interviews. The conversations were recorded, translated and available for analyses in the following stage of the research.
The majority of the participants of the “Alumni” survey (79,2%) were up to 40 years. In the Organisation’s survey there were no participant younger than 35. Participants were distributed almost equally in the age groups starting from 36-40 years. The detailed distribution of participants per age group is presented in Table 5. In the “Organisation’s” sample majority of the respondents were over 40 years of age (81,2%).
Table 7: Distribution of participants per age group Alumni sample
Organisations sample < 30 years 14 (10.4%) 0 (0.0%)
31-35 years 36-40 years 41-45 years 46-50 years 51-55 years 56-60 years 61 years > No answer
38 (28.1%) 55 (40.7%) 21 (15.6%) 5 (3.7%)
1 (0.7%) 1 (0.7%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
0 (0.0%) 5 (15.6%) 3 (9.4%) 9 (28.1%) 5 (15.6%) 5 (15.6%) 4 (12.5%) 1 (3.1%)
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