Table 2: Awareness of and attitudes to entrepreneurship among different ethnic/migrant groups, by level of entrepreneurial activity (% answering yes) white intention white non-white or regional white life-long regional non-white activity resident migrant immigrant resident migrant immigrant Know someone No 18.1 21.6 29.1 28.6 29.4 20.8 20.7 who started a business in last 2 years (yes Yes 41.4 45.9 55.0 50.0 61.0 46.1 45.6 versus no) Have No 39.7 47.4 48.0 45.0 39.0 41.7 43.7 knowledge, skills, experience to Yes 83.4 87.0 87.4 70.7 84.6 80.3 84.8 start a business (yes versus no) Good No 22.6 26.8 29.1 25.6 28.7 18.4 24.7 opportunities to start a business in my local area Yes 49.3 47.9 52.5 55.2 45.7 45.7 48.6 (yes versus no or don’t know) Would not start No 37.7 36.7 39.3 37.4 40.6 34.8 37.3 a business for fear of failure Yes 20.4 21.7 23.1 22.4 20.2 32.1 22.3 (yes versus no) Rows in bold show significant differences in % saying yes across the six ethnic/migrant categories at the 5% Note: level. Chi-square test results are available from the authors. GEM UK Adult Population Survey (2003-08) Source:
Table 2: Awareness of and attitudes to entrepreneurship among different ethnic/migrant groups, by level of entrepreneurial activity (% answering yes) intention or activity white resident white regional migrant white immigrant non-white life-long resident regional migrant non-white immigrant Know someone who started a business in last 2 years (yes versus no) No 18.1 21.6 29.1 28.6 29.4 20.8 20.7 Yes 41.4 45.9 55.0 50.0 61.0 46.1 45.6 Have knowledge, skills, experience to start a business (yes versus no) No 39.7 47.4 48.0 45.0 39.0 41.7 43.7 Yes 83.4 87.0 87.4 70.7 84.6 80.3 84.8 Good opportunities to start a business in my local area (yes versus no or don’t know) No 22.6 26.8 29.1 25.6 28.7 18.4 24.7 Yes 49.3 47.9 52.5 55.2 45.7 45.7 48.6 Would not start a business for fear of failure (yes versus no) No 37.7 36.7 39.3 37.4 40.6 34.8 37.3 Yes 20.4 21.7 23.1 22.4 20.2 32.1 22.3 Note: Rows in bold show significant differences in % saying yes across the six ethnic/migrant categories at the 5% level. Chi-square test results are available from the authors. Source: GEM UK Adult Population Survey (2003-08)
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