2020 FinScope Survey
Fourth Edition

Zambia, 2020

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ZMB-ZSA-FINSCOPE-2020-V1.0

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Zambia Statistics Agency

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F.6.1 You said you saved mainly to help you cope with regular expenses. What kin (F6_1)

Data file: 2020 Finscope data 7 July 2022_anonymised

Overview

Valid: 3139

Invalid: 9642

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Education or education related costs	547	17.4%
2	Living expenses	2537	80.8%
3	Paying off debt	5	0.2%
4	Saving group contribution	8	0.3%
5	Other, specify	42	1.3%
Sysmiss		9642

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.

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