Methodological Innovations for Measuring Informality – A Survey Experiment on Labor Measurement 2022

El Salvador, 2022

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SLV_2022_SELM_v01_M

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Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Ivette Contreras

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Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

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Sep 16, 2026

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Which of the following best describes what you are mainly doing at present (s4q37)

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Valid: 929

Invalid: 1551

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 7

Type: Discrete

Width: 0

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. STUDYING OR TRAINING	186	7.5%
2	2. ENGAGED IN HOUSEHOLD OR FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES	558	22.5%
3	3. HOUSEHOLD FARMING,LIVESTOCK, FISHING, OR FOREST ACTIVITIES FOR HOUSEHOLD USE	95	3.8%
4	4. RETIRED OR PENSIONER	7	0.3%
5	5. WITH A LONG-TERM ILLNESS, INJURY OR DISABILITY	57	2.3%
6	6. DOING VOLUNTEERING, COMMUNITY OR CHARITY WORK	10	0.4%
7	7. ENGAGED IN CULTURAL OR LEISURE ACTIVITIES	16	0.6%
Sysmiss		1551	62.5%

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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