Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database 2021

South Africa, 2021

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ZAF_2021_FINDEX_v02_M

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Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit

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Oct 17, 2022

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Dec 16, 2022

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Main source of emergency funds in 30 days (fin24)

Data file: micro_zaf.dta

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Valid: 1014

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Main source: Savings	262	25.8%
2	Main source: Family or friends	278	27.4%
3	Main source: Money from working	92	9.1%
4	Main source: Borrowing from a bank, empoyer, or private lender	103	10.2%
5	Main source: Selling assets	32	3.2%
6	Main source: Some other source	26	2.6%
7	(I could not come up with the money)	169	16.7%
8	(dk)	26	2.6%
9	ref	26	2.6%

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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