Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database 2017

Malawi, 2017

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MWI_2017_FINDEX_v02_M

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Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit

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Dec 05, 2019

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Dec 05, 2019

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Borrowed in past 12 months: for farm/business purposes (fin21)

Data file: micro_mwi

Overview

Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 55

End: 55

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

(READ:) This next section is about borrowing money for different purposes and from different sources such as family and friends, and banks, [local terminology for formal financial lenders], or other formal financial institutions.

Literal question

BORROWING SECTION

In the PAST 12 MONTHS, have you, by yourself or together with someone else, borrowed money to start, operate, or grow a business or farm?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	yes	156	15.6%
2	no	837	83.7%
3	(dk)	4	0.4%
4	(ref)	3	0.3%

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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