The relationship between socio-economic backgrounds and intrepreneurial characteristics

The purpose of this research is to identify the socioeconomic backgrounds of women traders in the traditional markets in West Jakarta. In addition, it also aims to find about the entrepreneurial characteristics of the women traders and to determine the relationship between their socioeconomic backgrounds and their entrepreneurial characteristics. The research used associative method with the primary data obtained through interviews and questionnaires distributed to 72 women traders as respondents. The secondary data was obtained through literature review. Data was subjected to factor analysis and then correlated to each other. The results show that in general the correlation between the components of socioeconomic backgrounds and entrepreneurial characteristics of the women traders was very low, as indicated by a score below 0.5. Among the lowest correlation scores, the highest was the correlation score between age (in socioeconomic backgrounds) and leadership (entrepreneurial characteristics) with a score of 0.279, which means age had 27.9% correlation to leadership. Therefore, it can be concluded that the older the women traders, the higher the level of their leadership.