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