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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Possibility of coming up with emergency funds (fin24)

Data file: micro_mwi

Overview

Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 2

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 59

End: 59

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

FINANCIAL RESILIENCE SECTION

Now, imagine that you have an emergency and you need to pay [1/20 of GNI per capita in local currency]. Is it possible or not possible that you could come up with [1/20 of GNI per capita in local currency] within the NEXT MONTH?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Possible	384	38.4%
2	Not possible	616	61.6%
3	(dk)	0	0%
4	(ref)	0	0%

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.

Interviewer instructions

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Question post text

Possible > (Continue)
Not possible > (Skip to FIN26)
(DK) > (Continue)
(Refused) > Continue

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