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 do you plan to do after completing the current education/training programme (s5eq17)

Data file: master_data

Overview

Valid: 158

Invalid: 2322

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 96

Mean: 12.753164556962

Type: Discrete

Width: 0

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. START A BUSINESS	5	0.2%
2	2. WORK IN A BUSINESS OPERATED BY A HOUSEHOLD OR FAMILY MEMBER	3	0.1%
3	3. WORK IN A FAMILY FARM GROWING CROPS, RAISING LIVESTOCK, OR FISHING	0
4	4. WORK AS AN EMPLOYEE FOR THE GOVERNMENT/PRIVATE FIRM OR SOMEONE ELSE	81	3.3%
5	5. WORK AS AN APPRENTICE, TRAINEE, INTERN	2	0.1%
6	6. IMMEDIATELY GO FOR FURTHER EDUCATION/TRAINING	48	1.9%
7	7. DO NOT KNOW	2	0.1%
8	8. DON'T PLAN TO WORK NOR STUDY	3	0.1%
96	96. OTHER (SPECIFY)	14	0.6%
Sysmiss		2322	93.6%

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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