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» Credit Access, Volume 8, Issue 7, 2008
If respondent has been affected by the nation’s current financial problems.

Top 100 2. For your business, is the most important immediate problem associated with the current financial situation caused by:?

Response Small, employing businesses affected by nation's financial problems All small, employing businesses
1 An inability to obtain credit 9 8
2 Slowing or lost sales 45 39
3 Falling real estate values 9 8
4 The cost and/or terms of credit 5 4
5 The unpredictability of business conditions 23 20
6 Other 4 4
7 None 4 16
8 DK/Refuse 1 1
Total (%) 100 100
N 655 752

Notes: Slowing or lost sales is the most important immediate problem associated with the current financial situation for 45 percent of small employers who have been affected by the nation's current financial problems (Q#2). Slowing or lost sales is the most important immediate problem associated with the current financial situation for 39 percent of small employers (Q#2).


Volume 8, Issue 7, 2008
ISSN - 1534-8326

William J. Dennis, Jr.
NFIB Research Foundation



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