Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database 2021

Benin, 2021

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Reference ID

BEN_2021_FINDEX_v02_M

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Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit

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Oct 17, 2022

Last modified

Dec 16, 2022

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Made or received a domestic remittance payment (remittances)

Data file: micro_ben.dta

Overview

Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	sent/received through an account	383	38.3%
2	sent/received through an otc transaction	61	6.1%
3	sent/received in cash only	50	5%
4	sent/received using other methods	50	5%
5	did not send/receive	454	45.4%
6	dk/ref	2	0.2%

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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Notes

This includes adults who made or received a domestic remittance payment in the past year.

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