Credit Risk Assessment for Small and Microsized Enterprises Using Kernel Feature Selection-Based Multiple Criteria Linear Optimization Classifier: Evidence from China

Table 1

Small and microsized enterprises’ basic information.

Variable	Variable name	Variable definition
	Registered capital	The amount of registered capital
	The size of enterprises	Micro 1, small 2
	The size of employees	The number of the enterprises’ employees
	Years of establishment	1 plus years since the enterprises’ started to incorporate
	The nature of enterprises	Private 1, collective 2, foreign commercial 3, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan 4, state owned 5.
	Industry of enterprise	Manufacturing 1, wholesale and retail 2, electricity and thermal 3, transportation 4, water conservancy 5, agriculture and forestry 6, construction 7, resident service 8, and mining 9