Abstract
The paper subscribes to some past authors observations that small-scale enterprises (SSEs) are veritable engines of industrial development for achieving national macro-economic objectives. It investigated the significance of the distribution of demographic variables among 250 entrepreneur surveyed. The impact of entrepreneurial traits on the performance of SSEs was also investigated by regressing the identified traits of 250 entrepreneurs, selected through the process of categorized randomization on the performance of their SSEs. The study discovered that the motives for funding SSEs are many and varied and that the distribution of observed demographic variables are motive bound when (demography and motive) cross-tabulated. The study lastly found out that the possession of unique tacit difficult-to-imitate skills by entrepreneur impinge on performance of SSEs along different directions and with varying intensities.