The entrepreneurs

The majority of the entrepreneurs from Braila are men (68.4%). The percentage of the female entrepreneurs is 31.6. Relative to their age, the most of them (39%) are between 20 and 40 years old. The weight of those between 41 and 50 years old is 38% and the rest of 23% are over 50 years old.

Relative to the structure by sex and age, the weight of the female entrepreneurs is 2% higher for all those between 21 and 40 years old. The percentage of the male entrepreneurs is higher for the other groups of age.

The largest share of the female entrepreneurs graduated secondary school (42.9%); the weight of those with a university degree is 32.3%. The percentage of the category mentioned above is also higher for the other kind of studies, elementary school and college.

The majority of the male entrepreneurs have as university degree (53.5%); 24.5% of the rest has graduated secondary school and 1.9% are graduates with a master's degree.

The importance of vocational experience is determined by the double, conflicting role it has: it may either be a positive factor underlying development or an adverse factor refraining the development of one's own business and implicitly of the local economy. Experience can sometimes be a limitation under the conditions of a mentality characterized by rigidity, inflexibility, closed system activity added to it, which characteristics are contrary to the present-day diametrically opposed conditions and requirements, which involve dynamism suppleness, systemic view, high inventiveness. The largest share (48%) of the interviewed persons has an experience older than 9 years, 33% between 4 and 8 years; 19% bellow 3 years.

The most important motivation for the next age categories: 21-30, 31-40 and 51-60 years is "better earnings". For the other age categories, "personal and family security" is the driving force. Self-achievement is less important for the older entrepreneurs while the "work with capable persons" has a diametrically opposed evolution.