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

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

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Sep 16, 2026

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Sep 16, 2026

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Valid: 175

Invalid: 2305

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Mean: 2.0171428571429

Type: Discrete

Width: 0

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. IN OWN BUSINESS OR FARMING ACTIVITY	84	3.4%
2	2. IN A BUSINESS OR FARM OPERATED BY HOUSEHOLD OR FAMILY MEMBER	14	0.6%
3	3. AS AN EMPLOYEE FOR SOMEONE ELSE	70	2.8%
4	4. AS AN APPRENTICE, TRAINEE, INTERN	4	0.2%
5	5. HELPING A FAMILY MEMBER WHO WORKS FOR SOMEONE ELSE	3	0.1%
6	6. IN OWN BUSINESS ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS	0
Sysmiss		2305	92.9%

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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