Non-farm businesses local economic integration level: the case of six Portuguese small and medium-sized Markettowns• - a sector approach



paired t-test and involves the substitution of ranks for the actual values. In
SPSS select (
Analyze/Non-parametric tests/ 2 or more than two independent
samples
). The results wil be presented in the table 5.

Table 5. Summary table of results for non-farm businesses in the study areas

Characteristic (Sales)

_________________________________Towns_________________________________

1 Mirandela

2 Vila Real

3 Tavira

4 Silves

5 Lixa

6 Esposende

Firm Size

Zone A+B

20,816

***

10,697

**

14,430

***

30,931

***

22,630

***

26,910

***

Zone A+B+C

26,554

***

9,762

**

9,908

**

14,187

***

32,819

***

29,728

***

Firm Type

Zone A+B

13,903

***

3,200

18,162

***

28,806

***

20,380

***

29,384

***

Zone A+B+C

24,822

***

0,897

17,877

***

11,439

***

33,380

***

25,277

***

Type of organisation

Zone A+B

622,500
*

760,500

689,000
*

632,000
*

936,5

1059,0

Zone A+B+C

556,000

**

677,500

755,500

543,5

**

1081,5

1105,0

Location of firm (Zone A or B)

Zone A+B

1426,00

1062,000

***

1980,000

**

2042,000
*

2237,5

2405,5

Zone A+B+C

994,00

***

1214,000

*

1992,000

**

2358,000

2352,5

2237,5

Years at this address

Zone A+B

2,610

5,460

1,735

0,016

2,791

11,758

***

Zone A+B+C

0,499

3,582

1,762

2,209

2,555

10,480

**

Origin/how local is the manager

Zone A+B

2,165

7,567

6,582
*

16,460

***

4,898

2,008

Zone A+B+C

2,093

5,753

7,721

*

20,994

***

8,744

**

2,533

Characteristic (Purchases)___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Firm Size

Zone A+B

4,229

2,913

1,205

0,298

2,182

9,204

**

Zone A+B+C

3,659

2,271

4,421

2,874

4,351

2,327

Firm Type

Zone A+B

2,109

2,990

9,472

***

7,021

**

6,315

**

4,232

Zone A+B+C

2,906

3,295

22,279

***

3,572

7,660

**

0,581

Type of organisation

Zone A+B

496,000

***

591,500

**

892,000

318,500

***

556,0

***

916,5

Zone A+B+C

457,000

***

566,00

**

935,000

330,000

***

716,5

***

914,5

Location (Zone A or B)

Zone A+B

1376,00

836,500

***

2419,500

2293,000

2342,5

2306,5

Zone A+B+C

1248,500

653,500

***

2243,000

1339,000

2378,5

2412,5

Years at this address

Zone A+B

0,242

0,832

1,457

0,806

4,178

4,935

Zone A+B+C

0,209

1,245

2,622

1,494

5,533

1,226

Origin/how local is the manager

Zone A+B

0,837

5,586

1,357

5,270

6,264
*

0,348

Zone A+B+C

0,542

2,269

2,547

4,421

7,224

*

1,942

Significance level: * 90% (P<0.1) ** 95% P<0.05) *** 99% (P<0.01).

Source: Own calculations.

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