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Financial Development and Structure 1960-2010

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Reference ID
WLD_1960-2010_FDS_v02_M
Producer(s)
Thorsten Beck and Asli Demirguc-Kunt (World Bank), Ross Eric Levine (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)
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Insurance (insure)

Data file: request8095

Overview

Valid: 44
Invalid: 62
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2008
End: 2008
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 4
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 2
4.5%
2 30
68.2%
3 5
11.4%
4 7
15.9%
Sysmiss 62
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.

Description

Universe
1980-1995
Source of information
The following variables are from Beck, Demirguc-Kunt and Levine (1999). They are averages over the period 1980-95, unless otherwise noted

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
Ability of banks to engage in insurance underwriting and selling. Source: Barth,Caprio and Levine et al. (1998). 1 indicates “unrestricted” (banks can engage in the full range of the activity directly in the bank), 2 indicates “permitted” (the full range of those activities can be conducted, but all or some of the activity must be conducted in subsidiaries), 3 indicates “restricted” (banks can engage in less than full range of those activities, either in the bank or subsidiaries) and 4 indicates “prohibited” (the activity may not be conducted by the bank or subsidiaries).
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