The Global Findex Database 2025: Connectivity and Financial Inclusion in the Digital Economy

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WLD_2024_FINDEX_v02_M

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Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit

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Jan 05, 2026

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Jan 05, 2026

Main reason for only using cash for in-store merchant payments (fin25e4)

Data file: findex_microdata_2025_labelled_update112425

Overview

Valid: 35219

Invalid: 108871

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 7

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 56

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Because the merchant(s) only accepts cash	4879	13.9%
2	Because it's more expensive to pay using a card or phone	1333	3.8%
3	Because you don't trust payments using a card or phone	1730	4.9%
4	Because you're used to paying by cash	25419	72.2%
5	Some other reason	1177	3.3%
6	Don't know	539	1.5%
7	Refused	142	0.4%
Sysmiss		108871

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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