A STUDY ON PERFORMANCE OF MICRO FOOD

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN TUTICORIN DISTRICT

Questionaire
Name of the respondent:
Name of institution:
1) Gender:
Male Female
2) Age (in years)
a) 20-30 years b) 30-40 years c) 40-50 years d) above 50 years
3) Marital Status:
Married Unmarried
4) Qualification:
a) Illiterate b) SSLC/HSC c) Graduation/Post graduation d) Professional
5) Annual Income:
a) below ₨.3,00,000 b) Rs.3,00,000-Rs.6,00,000
c) Rs.6,00,000-Rs.9,00,000 d) above Rs.9,00,000
6) Nature of family:
a) Joint family b) Nuclear family
7) Number of members in family:
a) below 3 b) 3-6 members c) above 6 years
8) Nativity of Respondent:
a) Local b) Migrant
9) Location of business:
a) Rural b) Urban c) Semi-Urban
10) Numbers of years from commencement of business:
 a) Less than 1 year b) 1-3 years c) 3-6 years d) More than 6 years
11) Nature of business:
a) Sole proprietorship b) Partnership c) Company d) Others (specify)
12) What type of product handled by business?
_____________________________________________________________
13) How many MSME units do you have?
_____________________________________________________________
14) Number of employees working in your factory?
_____________________________________________________________
15) Basis of working hours in the unit:
a) Piece rate basis b) Time rate basis c) Others (Specify)
16) If time rate basis number of working hours:
a) below 5 hours b) 5-8 hours c) 8 hours + overtime d) Others (Specify)
17) Have you faced any difficulties in the market for the promotion of your product:
Yes No
18) If yes, what type of difficulties you have faced rank as 1, 2, 3
Low price I Insufficient Demand Transportation
Storage Delayed payment Administration difficulties
Others specify_______________
19) From where do you get the raw materials for your business?
a) within thoothukudi b) nearby districts c) within Tamilnadu
d) from other states e) from foreign Country
20) Are you doing marketing for your business
Yes No

21) Marketing techniques used by business:

 a) Direct selling b) Paid Media Advertising c) Internet Marketing
d) Earned Media e) Word of mouth advertising
22) Family members working in your business:
Male Female
Paid family members

Unpaid family members

23) Have you tried to get finance for the expansion of your business over the past one
year?
a) Yes b) No
24) Are you a member of any business association?
a) Yes b) No
25) Mention the name of association ___________________
26) If yes, Rank the assistance derived from association (Rank as 1,2,3)
a)Financial assistance b) Technical assistance c) Marketing assistance
27) What are the expectations concerning your business over the next two years?
Continue with present business
Change to another line of business
Leave and take up a new business
Pass the business onto someone else in my family
Retire
Sell the business
Others Specify _______________________________

28) How would you rate the performance of your business over the last 2years? (Rank
as 1,2,3)
Very Poor
 Poor
Ok was getting by
Good enough, despite crises
Very good despite crises

29) How do you expect to continue your business over the next 2 years?
No changes planned
Make new investments in business
Expand business operation
Hire a professional manager to run it for me
Increase the number of workers
Expand the range of new products

30) Are you receiving the assistance from the MSME_ DI in the following services? If
Yes give the level of satisfaction

Services Yes or No Good Moderate Not Satisfactory

Raw Materials
Finance
Training
Marketing
Packing and Forwarding
Technical Consultancy
Infrastructure Facilities
Plant and Machinery
Land and Building
Power
Transport
Preparation of Project Report

31) Do you knowledge about entrepreneurship development programme.

Yes No

32) Are you able to utilize the capacity to the full extent in your unit.
 Yes No

33) If no give reason. _______________________________________

34) Profit and Loss of the Unit.

Percentage of
Year Profit in ₨ Loss in Rs written investment

35) If you get profit, it use for

a) Re-investment b) Purchase of asset c) consumer durables d) others

36) Are you able to procure the required raw materials.

a) Yes□ b) No□
37) If no what difficulties do you face for getting the raw materials.
a) Local scarcity b) Government control c) Inability to make bulk purchase
d) On organized nature of Market e) Others(specify)
38) The price of raw materials are
a) Very high b) High c) Reasonable
39) What is your opinion about the assistance and functioning of MSME-DI?
a) High Satisfactory b) Satisfactory c) Somewhat Satisfactory c) Not Satisfactory
40)Satisfactory level of opinion of respondents about the business.
opinion Highly satisfied moderat dissatisfied Highly
satisfied e dissatisfied