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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What is the main reason you want to change your employment (s4q73)

Data file: master_data

Overview

Valid: 864

Invalid: 1616

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 4.0555555555556

Type: Discrete

Width: 0

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. PRESENT JOB IS TEMPORARY	35	1.4%
2	2. TO HAVE A BETTER PAID JOB	540	21.8%
3	3. TO HAVE MORE CLIENTS/BUSINESS	5	0.2%
4	4. TO WORK MORE HOURS	5	0.2%
5	5. TO WORK FEWER HOURS	9	0.4%
6	6. TO BETTER MATCH SKILLS	4	0.2%
7	7. TO WORK CLOSER TO HOME	8	0.3%
8	8. TO IMPROVE OTHER WORKING CONDITIONS	93	3.8%
9	9. OTHER (SPECIFY)	165	6.7%
Sysmiss		1616	65.2%

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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