Flash Eurobarometer 146 (Entrepreneurship 2003)

Attitudes towards entrepreneurship.<br>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.