2024 Labour Force Survey
Thirteenth Edition
Zambia, 2024
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ZMB-ZSA-LFS-2024-V1.0
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Zambia Statistics Agency
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If you needed (K500 FOR RURAL / K1,000 FOR URBAN) within three days incase of an emergency, were would you get it from? (P131_URBAN)
Data file: ZM_Annual_LFS_2024_Data_Anonymised_04122025
Overview
Valid:
3522
Invalid:
45501
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 19
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Savings | 1031 |
29.3%
|
| 2 | Rely on savings group social fund | 12 |
0.3%
|
| 3 | Borrow from a bank | 14 |
0.4%
|
| 4 | Borrow from microfinance institutions such as Madison Financ | 29 |
0.8%
|
| 5 | Borrow from microlender such as Innovate | 13 |
0.4%
|
| 6 | Borrow from a savings and credit cooperative (SACCO) | 1 |
0%
|
| 7 | Borrow from savings group | 58 |
1.6%
|
| 8 | Borrow from moneylender/kaloba/shylock | 182 |
5.2%
|
| 9 | Borrow from family/friends | 924 |
26.2%
|
| 10 | Rely on family and friends for gifts | 650 |
18.5%
|
| 11 | Rely on the community for gifts | 13 |
0.4%
|
| 12 | Sell something that I bought for this purpose | 16 |
0.5%
|
| 13 | Sell something not intentionally bought for this purpose | 59 |
1.7%
|
| 14 | Cut back on expenses | 8 |
0.2%
|
| 15 | Cut back on mealsBorrow from mobile money | 6 |
0.2%
|
| 16 | Take children out of school | 1 |
0%
|
| 17 | Claim insurance | 0 |
0%
|
| 18 | Other, specify | 108 |
3.1%
|
| 19 | Don?t know(Do not read out) | 397 |
11.3%
|
| Sysmiss | 45501 |
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.