Table 1.
Descriptive statistics.
| Variables | 2009 |
2015 |
Difference | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Std. Dev | Min | Max | Mean | Std. Dev | Min | Max | ||
| Sales growth | 0.247 | 0.292 | -0.236 | 1.302 | 0.082 | 0.237 | -0.358 | 0.834 | 0.166∗∗∗ |
| Employment Growth | 0.709 | 0.454 | 0 | 1 | 0.715 | 0.452 | 0 | 1 | -0.006 |
| Small | 0.222 | 0.416 | 0 | 1 | 0.350 | 0.477 | 0 | 1 | -0.127∗∗∗ |
| Medium | 0.414 | 0.493 | 0 | 1 | 0.387 | 0.487 | 0 | 1 | 0.0280 |
| Government | 0.084 | 0.277 | 0 | 1 | 0.034 | 0.180 | 0 | 1 | 0.050∗∗∗ |
| Foreign | 0.134 | 0.341 | 0 | 1 | 0.087 | 0.282 | 0 | 1 | 0.047∗∗∗ |
| Manufacturing | 0.749 | 0.434 | 0 | 1 | 0.689 | 0.463 | 0 | 1 | 0.060∗∗∗ |
| Exporter | 0.369 | 0.483 | 0 | 1 | 0.285 | 0.452 | 0 | 1 | 0.084∗∗∗ |
| Experience | 16.082 | 7.388 | 5 | 32 | 16.840 | 7.499 | 5 | 35 | -0.758∗∗ |
| International | 0.229 | 0.420 | 0 | 1 | 0.169 | 0.375 | 0 | 1 | 0.060∗∗∗ |
| Certified | 0.342 | 0.475 | 0 | 1 | 0.308 | 0.462 | 0 | 1 | 0.033 |
| Central North | 0.101 | 0.301 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mekong River | 0.112 | 0.315 | 0 | 1 | 0.144 | 0.351 | 0 | 1 | |
| N Cent &Cent Coastal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.242 | 0.429 | 0 | 1 | |
| Red River Delta | 0.313 | 0.464 | 0 | 1 | 0.294 | 0.456 | 0 | 1 | |
| South East | 0.369 | 0.483 | 0 | 1 | 0.320 | 0.467 | 0 | 1 | |
| South Central Coastal | 0.105 | 0.307 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Financing Obstacles | 1.057 | 0.473 | 0 | 3.000 | 0.899 | 0.443 | 0 | 3.000 | 0.158∗∗∗ |
| Legal Obstacles | 0.101 | 0.193 | 0 | 1.400 | 0.435 | 0.257 | 0 | 1.500 | -0.334∗∗∗ |
Notes: The value in the "Difference" column is calculated as the difference between the means of each variable in 2009 and 2015.