Power Blackout Case Study

This chapter entails to present findings on the study that aimed at finding on the impact of power blackout on performance in the small and medium scale industry in Arusha district. The study was organized into three specific research objectives which were to assess the impact of power blackout on productivity for small and medium enterprises; to determine impact of power blackout on income for small and medium enterprises and finally to identify the implication of power blackout on human resource in small and medium enterprises.
4.1. Response Rate
The targeted sample size was 60 respondents for collecting data with regard on the impact of power cut on performance in the small and medium enterprises in Arusha district. From the study, 48 out

Specifically the industries or enterprises involved were Beverage, Food processing, milling machineries, timber works, printing and textile and garment industry.
4.2.1. Sex of the Respondents In this study the respondents asked to indicate their gender and the results was as follows; 40 respondents equal to 83.3% were male and 8 respondents equal to 16.7% were female. The results are presented in Table 4.2 and Figure 4.1. Table 4.2: sex of the Respondents
Gender Frequency Percentage (%)
Male 40 83.33
Female 8 16.67
Total 48 100.0 Source: Field data, (2016)

Figure 4.1: sex of the