2020 FinScope Survey
Fourth Edition
Zambia, 2020
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ZMB-ZSA-FINSCOPE-2020-V1.0
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2020 Finscope
data 7 July
2022_anonymised
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Data file: 2020 Finscope data 7 July 2022_anonymised
Overview
Valid:
265
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
150
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "go to school and achieve his goal" | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| "he does not know" | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| BEER DRINKING | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| BEING ABLE TO PAY RENT | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| BUYING A HOUSE | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| BUYING CLOTHS | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| BUYING ROOFING SHEETS TO DEVELOP HOUSE | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| BUYING. CLOTHES THE REST I DEPEND ON MY AUNTIE | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Being Looked After | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Buy air time | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Buying Livestock | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| Buying cattle | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Buying clothes | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Buying clothes for myself | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Buying clothing and cosmetics | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Buying fertilizer | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Buying livestock | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| CLOTHES AND SOMETIMES FOOD | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Clothes for her and her kids | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Completing School. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| DEPEND ON MY PARENTS | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| EDUCATION | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Education | 3 |
1.1%
|
|
| Everything is taken care of by parents | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| FIND A JOB | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| FINDING A JOB | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| FINISHING SCHOOL | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| FOR MAINTENANCE | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Finding employement | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Going to school | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| IMPROVING MY HEALTH | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Im a dependant | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Improving her life | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Livestock stocking | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Looking for land for farming | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Looking for livestock to buy or sell | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| MY BROTHER PROVIDS FOR ME | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| MY PARENT DOES THAT FOR ME | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Nothing | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| PERSONAL EXPENSES LIKE CLOTHS ,SOAP ETC | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| PUTTING A BOREHOLE | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Planning to get a farm of my own | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| RENTALS | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Raising her child | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Right now just feeding my family | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| SCHOOL | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| SELF SUSTAINANCE AND ENTERPRENEURSHIP | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| STARTING BUSINESS | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| STARTING OWN BUSINESS | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| STAYING WITH PARENTS | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Sch girl | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Setting up a business. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| She is just a dependant who relies on the parents | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Starting a business | 6 |
2.3%
|
|
| Starting oen business. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| TO GO TO TETIARY SCHOOL | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| TO START A BUSINESS | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Things that are lacking at that particular time | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| To pay ground rate | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| alchohol consumpution | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| am just being kept | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| bicycle | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| build a house | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| building | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| building a house | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| building a new house | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| building another house | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| business | 3 |
1.1%
|
|
| but household commodities such as soap | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buy a car | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buy a plot | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buy a wheelchair for mobility | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buy clothing | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buy farming imputs | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buy fertilizer | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buy hamermile build a house and other properties | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buy livestock | 4 |
1.5%
|
|
| buy lotion | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buy machinary | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying a bicycle | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying a phone | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying a vehicle | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying animals,food on the table | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying clothes | 7 |
2.6%
|
|
| buying clothes for children | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying cloths | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| buying cloths and uniforms | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying farm inputs | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying fertilizer | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| buying land. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying livestock | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying lotions and talk time | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying more cattle | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying seeds for the next farm season | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buying what she wants | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| buyinng farming imputs | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| can't tell as I'm still in school | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| career and improving the family | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| clothes | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| clothing | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| completing my education | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| depend on parent | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| dependant | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| does not do anything | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| dont have an income | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| dont work | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| drinking beer | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| educate the children | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| educating children | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| educating children and improving business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| educating children,buying land,starting a business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| educating my children | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| educating the children | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| education children | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| education for children | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| farming | 16 |
6%
|
|
| farming equipments | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| fertilizer | 3 |
1.1%
|
|
| finding a job | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| finding a source of income | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| finding money for business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| finishing school | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| food | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| food for my kids | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| get drivers license | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| gloceries | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| going to school | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| growing maize | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| having money | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| help my husband to buy to food | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| helping family members | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| helping my mother | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| hospital (clinic) | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| i dont have responsibility | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| i rarely get money | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| i would want to start a business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| improving the Farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| invest in farming | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| just buying personal needs(clothes). | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| just started work | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| learning | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| look after the family | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| looking for a job | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| looking for employment | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| looking for work | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| medication for her husband | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| money | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| my familly provides | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| my family controls | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| my grand mother pays for me | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| my parents provide for me | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| no income | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| nothing | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| passing exams | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| payiing fir school fees | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| paying for childrens education | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| paying rent | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| paying tution fees | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| personal needs | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| personal use | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| personals | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| plot | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| rent | 3 |
1.1%
|
|
| saving | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| saving to collect results | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| selling cigarrates | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| sending money to parents | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| start a business | 5 |
1.9%
|
|
| start a bussiness | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| start business | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| start my own business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| starting a business | 13 |
4.9%
|
|
| starting a bussiness | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| starting a bussness | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| starting business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| starting own business of hairdressing | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| starting up a busines | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| starting up a business | 5 |
1.9%
|
|
| still at school | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| still not able to do things on my own | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| studying at school | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| thinking of starting up a business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| to build his own house | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| to find a job | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| to get a license | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| to go and train as a soidier | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| to start a business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| want to buy steal roofing sheets | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| want to start a business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| was not sure | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| what is important to me is looking for a job | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| when am given by my parents | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| when i get employed | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| working hard to achieve my goal | 1 |
0.4%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.