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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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Created on
Sep 16, 2026
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Sep 16, 2026
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What was the main reason for moving to the current place of residence? (s1q19)

Data file: master_data

Overview

Valid: 766
Invalid: 1714
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 96
Type: Discrete
Width: 0
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 1. TO LOOK FOR WORK 70
2.8%
2 2. OTHER IMCOME REASONS 7
0.3%
3 3. DROUGHT, FLOOD, OR OTHER WEATHER-RELATED REASON 0
4 4. EVICTION 14
0.6%
5 5. OTHER LAND-RELATED PROBLEM 14
0.6%
6 6. ILLNESS, INJURY 0
7 7. DISABILITY 0
8 8. EDUCATION 7
0.3%
9 9. MARRIAGE 151
6.1%
10 10. DIVORCE 6
0.2%
11 11. ESCAPE INSECURITY (HOUSEHOLD LEVEL) 30
1.2%
12 12. ESCAPE INSECURTY (COUNTRY)/DISPLACEMENT 36
1.5%
13 13. RETURN HOME FROM DISPLACEMENT 13
0.5%
14 14. FOLLOW/JOIN FAMILY 134
5.4%
96 96. OTHER, SPECIFY 284
11.5%
Sysmiss 1714
69.1%
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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