Coping with Regulation
» Coping with Regulation, Volume 1, Issue 5, 2001
If respondent thinks regulation is a very serious, somewhat serious or not too serious a problem.
2. What is the single greatest problem created for your business by government regulation? Is it the:?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Limits placed on actions you want to take | 7 | ||
| 2 | Extra paperwork required | 26 | ||
| 3 | Time delays that it causes | 9 | ||
| 4 | Difficulty discovering new regulations | 7 | ||
| 5 | Difficulty understanding what you have to do to comply | 22 | ||
| 6 | Dollars spent to comply | 22 | ||
| 7 | Other | 5 | ||
| 8 | Refuse/DK | 3 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 545 | |||
Notes: Twenty-six (26) percent of small employers who think that government regulation is a problem assert that the greatest single difficulty regulation generates is the 'extra paperwork required" (Q#2).
