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Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database 2021

Benin, 2021
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Reference ID
BEN_2021_FINDEX_v02_M
Producer(s)
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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Has a mobile money account (account_mob)

Data file: micro_ben.dta

Overview

Valid: 1000
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 1
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 1
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 no 593
59.3%
1 yes 407
40.7%
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
Mobile money service providers are those included in the GSM Association’s Mobile Money for the Unbanked (GSMA MMU) database.
The data also includes an additional 2 percent of respondents in 2021 who received wages, government transfers, a public sector pension, or payments for agricultural products through a mobile phone in the past year. Unlike the definition of account at a financial institution, the definition of mobile money account does not include the payment of utility bills or school fees through a mobile phone. The reason is that the phrasing of the possible answers leaves it open as to whether those payments were made using a mobile money account or an over-the-counter service. Questions screened for account ownership in the questionnaire do not include these additional 2 percent of respondents.
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