2020 FinScope Survey
Fourth Edition
Zambia, 2020
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Reference ID
ZMB-ZSA-FINSCOPE-2020-V1.0
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Zambia Statistics Agency
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2020 Finscope
data 7 July
2022_anonymised
E.15.4. How did you cope financially when Large unforeseen school expenses e.g s (E15_4)
Data file: 2020 Finscope data 7 July 2022_anonymised
Overview
Valid:
1168
Invalid:
11613
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 8
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Used savings | 277 |
23.7%
|
| 2 | Borrowed money | 179 |
15.3%
|
| 3 | Sold an asset/something obtained for this purpose | 56 |
4.8%
|
| 4 | Sold asset/something not obtained for this purpose | 59 |
5.1%
|
| 5 | Cut down on expenses | 88 |
7.5%
|
| 6 | Claimed insurance/policy pay-out | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 7 | Nothing | 328 |
28.1%
|
| 8 | Other | 179 |
15.3%
|
| Sysmiss | 11613 |
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.