data is composed of the Adult Population Survey and the National Expert Survey
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Questionnaire
Supplementary notes
A necessity-driven entrepreneur is one whose motivation to start a business is to earn a living because jobs are scarce. They survey allowed for respondents to select multiple motivations.
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Necessity driven entrepreneurial activity in Asia by country 2019
This statistic shows the share of necessity-driven entrepreneurship in total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) in Asia in 2019, by country. According to the report, necessity driven entrepreneurial activity is defined as the percentage of those involved in total early-stage entrepreneurial activity because there were no better options for work. In 2019, the share of necessity-driven entrepreneurship in Pakistan was **** percent.
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