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
G.6 Thinking about the money you borrowed from ?. What was this money for? (G6)
Data file: 2020 Finscope data 7 July 2022_anonymised
Overview
Valid:
11212
Invalid:
1569
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 10
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To help you with regular expenses | 3951 |
35.2%
|
| 2 | To help you cope with unexpected expenses | 939 |
8.4%
|
| 3 | For business purposes | 621 |
5.5%
|
| 4 | For farming/fishing purposes | 567 |
5.1%
|
| 5 | Social ceremonies/celebrations | 45 |
0.4%
|
| 6 | Buying a bicycle, motorcycle, car, truck or other means of t | 25 |
0.2%
|
| 7 | Buying household goods such as a fridge or stove or other as | 45 |
0.4%
|
| 8 | Buy residential land/house or building a house to live in/re | 89 |
0.8%
|
| 9 | Buying property such as a house or land to rent out | 33 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Other, specify | 4897 |
43.7%
|
| Sysmiss | 1569 |
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.