Tingkat Pendidikan dan Lama Usaha Sebagai Determinan Penghasilan UMKM Kota Surabaya

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to test the influence of level of education to income of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Surabaya. It is important because the activities of SMEs are able to accommodate the local workforce and to increase the families‘ income. Generally, low level of educated societies tend to have low incomes which result in the lack of productivity of the SMEs. Regarding it, the researcher will analyze the influence of the level of education and old business towards the income of SMEs in Surabaya. There are more than 3.947 SMEs managed by government of Surabaya, but they are not all productive. In order to analyze the data, the collection of data is done through survey and semi-structural interview to the owners of SMEs in Surabaya. The researcher utilizes multiple regression analysis SPSS program while the sample size is 68 owners of SMEs. Results show that old business variable significantly influences the income of the SMEs and level of education not significantly influences the income of the SMEs.