LSMS Household Business Indicators for Sub-Saharan Africa 2014-2024
Harmonized Dataset

Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria...and 2 more, 2014 - 2025

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Reference ID

AFR_2014-2024_LSMS-HBI_v01_M

Producer(s)

Jiapei Zhang, Ivette Contreras, Amparo Palacios-Lopez

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Sep 28, 2026

Last modified

Sep 28, 2026

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Owner age category (owner_agecat)

Data file: LSMS_HBI_BUSINESS

Overview

Valid: 20069

Invalid: 587

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 6

Type: Discrete

Width: 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	15-24	2071	10.3%
2	25-34	5738	28.6%
3	35-44	5800	28.9%
4	45-54	3597	17.9%
5	55-64	1918	9.6%
6	65+	945	4.7%
Sysmiss		587

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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