Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database 2021

Jamaica, 2021

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Reference ID

JAM_2021_FINDEX_v02_M

Producer(s)

Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Oct 17, 2022

Last modified

Dec 16, 2022

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Received a government transfer payment (receive_transfers)

Data file: micro_jam.dta

Overview

Valid: 502

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	received payments into an account	33	6.6%
2	received payments in cash only	3	0.6%
3	received payments using other methods	11	2.2%
4	did not receive payments	431	85.9%
5	dk/ref	24	4.8%

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 received a government transfer payment in the past year.

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