In Table 3, responses to SMEs consideration of SWOT in adopting growth strategy were presented. The highest
response rate being 33.18% implies that majority of SMEs operators do not give reasonable consideration to
SWOT analysis before adopting their growth strategy. To establish empirical significant of this theoretical
responses, a test of hypothesis one which stated that “There is no significant relationship between risk benefit of
swot and SMEs growth strategies” was carried out, and the result is presented in Table 4.