Economically Active Population Survey
National results
Self-employed (1), according to the main difficulty or inconvenience working as self-employed, by sex and professional status
Units: Absolutes values (thousands) and percentages

	Total		Self-employed with employees		Self-employed without employees (includes members of cooperative)		
	absolute value	percentage	absolute value	percentage	absolute value	percentage	
Both sexes	
    Total	3,042.2	100.00	1,030.6	100.00	2,011.6	100.00	
    Lack of influence on setting the price of your work	119.4	3.92	32.6	3.17	86.7	4.31	
    Cannot get finance for your business	190.8	6.27	66.3	6.44	124.5	6.19	
    Customers/clients paying late or not at all	355.4	11.68	154.6	15.00	200.8	9.98	
    Inappropriate levels of administrative burden	98.6	3.24	45.9	4.45	52.7	2.62	
    No income when ill	219.5	7.22	59.4	5.76	160.2	7.96	
    Times with little money to live on	231.7	7.62	69.2	6.71	162.5	8.08	
    Times without clients, without having any order or project in whic to work	410.2	13.49	89.3	8.67	320.9	15.95	
    Other main difficulty than those mentioned	438.5	14.41	160.9	15.61	277.6	13.80	
    Had no difficulties	840.6	27.63	306.7	29.76	533.9	26.54	
    No answer/Don't know	137.4	4.52	45.6	4.43	91.8	4.56	
Men	
    Total	2,027.0	100.00	716.3	100.00	1,310.7	100.00	
    Lack of influence on setting the price of your work	85.8	4.23	24.7	3.45	61.2	4.67	
    Cannot get finance for your business	122.1	6.02	42.9	5.99	79.2	6.04	
    Customers/clients paying late or not at all	283.2	13.97	131.5	18.36	151.7	11.57	
    Inappropriate levels of administrative burden	71.1	3.51	34.7	4.84	36.4	2.78	
    No income when ill	135.6	6.69	31.5	4.40	104.0	7.94	
    Times with little money to live on	153.5	7.57	47.1	6.57	106.4	8.12	
    Times without clients, without having any order or project in whic to work	265.3	13.09	59.1	8.25	206.2	15.73	
    Other main difficulty than those mentioned	274.5	13.54	104.5	14.59	170.0	12.97	
    Had no difficulties	538.5	26.57	205.1	28.64	333.4	25.44	
    No answer/Don't know	97.3	4.80	35.1	4.90	62.2	4.74	
Women	
    Total	1,015.2	100.00	314.3	100.00	700.9	100.00	
    Lack of influence on setting the price of your work	33.5	3.30	8.0	2.53	25.6	3.65	
    Cannot get finance for your business	68.7	6.77	23.4	7.45	45.3	6.47	
    Customers/clients paying late or not at all	72.2	7.11	23.1	7.35	49.1	7.00	
    Inappropriate levels of administrative burden	27.5	2.71	11.2	3.57	16.3	2.33	
    No income when ill	84.0	8.27	27.8	8.86	56.1	8.01	
    Times with little money to live on	78.2	7.70	22.1	7.03	56.1	8.00	
    Times without clients, without having any order or project in whic to work	144.9	14.28	30.2	9.62	114.7	16.36	
    Other main difficulty than those mentioned	163.9	16.15	56.4	17.93	107.6	15.35	
    Had no difficulties	302.1	29.76	101.6	32.32	200.5	28.61	
    No answer/Don't know	40.1	3.95	10.5	3.34	29.6	4.23	
Notes:
1) Employed people 16 years and over, whose professional status are self-employed with employees or self-employed  without employees. The latter includes members of cooperative. Due to calibration procedure applied to the annual  subsample, the categories of self-employed figures differ from the ones obtained as annual averages of the four  quarters of the year.
Source: INE