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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Who decides whether you can visit your parents within or outside the city? (s7q5)

Data file: master_data

Overview

Valid: 1717

Invalid: 763

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Mean: 1.5497961560862

Type: Discrete

Width: 0

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. I decide on my own	1025	41.3%
2	2. I decide together with my spouse	552	22.3%
3	3. My spouse decides if I can do it	28	1.1%
4	4. Other Specify	112	4.5%
Sysmiss		763	30.8%

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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