Effect of Entrepreneurial Financing on Women Entrepreneurship Performance in Zamfara State

Abstract

This research seeks to empirically examine the effect of entrepreneurial financing on women's entrepreneurship in Zamfara state. The study specifically wishes to examine the effect of personal savings, rotating savings, sources from relatives, partners, friends (informal sources of entrepreneurial financing) and microcredit, bank loans, government, and other agencies' grants (formal sources of entrepreneurial financing) on women entrepreneurs in Zamfara state to draw our findings based on the outcome of the research. Therefore, the research design is a survey of close-ended questionnaire-based research, which was distributed to women entrepreneurs within the state, from which a sample was drawn by the use of convenient sampling; where a sample of xxx women entrepreneurs was drawn and randomly given a questionnaire. The valid responses were presented in tables and charts for a better understanding of users. The data collected was then analysed by the use of SPSS version 20.0 through ordinary least square regression technique and ANOVA, then followed by a post-diagnostic reliability test of Cronbach alpha, multicollinearity, or/and outliers. The confirmation of this analysis suggested the final result, and from it, a conclusion and recommendations will be proffered.