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(agree/disagree) The local media does a good job of covering community business news.
(agree/disagree) A real community spirit exists in your area.
(agree/disagree) Bankers and investors in the community go out of their way to help local businesses, including people trying to start them.
(agree/disagree) The local public school system works cooperatively with local business groups.
(agree/disagree) Local governments in the area go out of their way to create a favorable business climate for local businesses, including people trying to start them.
(agree/disagree) The local business community works closely together.
(agree/disagree) Local community groups and organizations go out of their way to support local businesses, including people trying to start them.
(agree/disagree) Area colleges and universities go out of their way to work with local businesses, including people trying to start them.
Was your business founded in the community where it is now located?
How many years have you personally operated the business in this community?
Has the community in which your current business is located changed dramatically, quite a bit, modestly, or not changed since you first started operation there?
Has the change in the community resulted in a more favorable, less favorable, or no change in the business climate?
Are you currently planning or considering significant expansion of your business?
Will that expansion, if you go forward, occur in your current community or elsewhere?
Why somewhere else? Is it because:?
Are you considering moving your business to a different community?
Why are you considering a move? Is it because:?
About how long is the drive, in minutes, from where you live to where your business is located?
Since first occupying your current business location, have you moved your personal residence much farther from it, farther, closer, much closer, or has there been no change?
(agree/disagree) The social values and culture of the community emphasize self-sufficiency, autonomy, and personal initiative.
(agree/disagree) Most leaders in your community are people who own their own businesses.
(agree/disagree) The social values and culture of the community encourage entrepreneurial risk-taking.
(agree/disagree) The local business community is open to new-comers.
(agree/disagree) Those with successful businesses get a lot more attention and admiration within the community.
(agree/disagree) Young people in the community are encouraged to be independent and start their own business.
(agree/disagree) The social values and culture of the community emphasize creativity and innovativeness.
(agree/disagree) The community has many examples of well-respected people who made a success of themselves by starting a business.
(agree/disagree) The social values and culture of the community stress the responsibility the individual has to manage his or her own life.
Overall, is your community's business climate very favorable, favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, unfavorable, or very unfavorable?
Volume 6, Issue 2, 2006 ISSN - 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr. NFIB Research Foundation