Technology Adoption and Risk Initiative Household Baseline Survey 2006
Malawi, 2006
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Reference ID
MWI_2006_MTARI_v01_M_PUF
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Xavier Gine, Dean Yang
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h6.1 most important reason why save (h6_1)
Data file: bsavins_PUF
Overview
Valid:
948
Invalid:
139
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
97
End:
98
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 12
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
What are the most important reasons that you save?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect against bad harvest or drought | 97 |
10.2%
|
| 2 | access to credit | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 3 | school fees | 48 |
5.1%
|
| 4 | buy agricultural inputs/investments | 174 |
18.4%
|
| 5 | provide for old age | 0 |
0%
|
| 6 | repair dwelling | 4 |
0.4%
|
| 7 | emergency events | 546 |
57.6%
|
| 8 | secure consumption | 52 |
5.5%
|
| 9 | marriage | 0 |
0%
|
| 10 | no insurance | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | to leave inheritance | 15 |
1.6%
|
| 12 | other specify | 9 |
0.9%
|
| Sysmiss | 139 |
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.