activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects. This category is a fair representation of the study since they regularly interact with customers, suppliers, and the products. Information obtained from Kigoma trade office and the Kigoma town council licensing department on trade register indicated that there were two hundred small enterprises businesses registered by the council to operators in the town and four microfinance institutions. These businesses had the following characteristics selling farm produce, horticultural, vegetables, cereals, retailers, and wholesalers of assorted goods and services related business, operating either in fixed location. Table 3.1: Summary of the Target Population S.NO Category No. of Percentage (%) Respondents 1 beneficiaries 20 20% 2 PRIDE beneficiaries 20 20% 3 SACCOS beneficiaries 20 20% 4 MFI’s officials 5 5% 5 Residents of Kigoma 35 35% Municipality 6 Total 100 100% Source: Research Data 2014 The study was intended for 100 respondents who are beneficiaries of 20 women enterprises. They were chosen through a snow ball sampling upon the researcher’s visit to the micro finance institutions where these entrepreneurs had been there for returning the paybacks for the loan they had obtained. A snowball sample is a sampling technique that is appropriate to use in research when the
activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects. This category is a fair representation of the study since they regularly interact with customers, suppliers, and the products. Information obtained from Kigoma trade office and the Kigoma town council licensing department on trade register indicated that there were two hundred small enterprises businesses registered by the council to operators in the town and four microfinance institutions. These businesses had the following characteristics selling farm produce, horticultural, vegetables, cereals, retailers, and wholesalers of assorted goods and services related business, operating either in fixed location. Table 3.1: Summary of the Target Population S.NO Category No. of Respondents Percentage (%) 1 beneficiaries 20 20% 2 PRIDE beneficiaries 20 20% 3 SACCOS beneficiaries 20 20% 4 MFI’s officials 5 5% 5 Residents of Kigoma Municipality 35 35% 6 Total 100 100% Source: Research Data 2014 The study was intended for 100 respondents who are beneficiaries of 20 women enterprises. They were chosen through a snow ball sampling upon the researcher’s visit to the micro finance institutions where these entrepreneurs had been there for returning the paybacks for the loan they had obtained. A snowball sample is a sampling technique that is appropriate to use in research when the
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