Macroinsurance for Microenterprises: A Randomized Experiment in Post-Revolution Egypt 2011

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2011 - 2012

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Reference ID

EGY_2011_MMIE_v01_M_v01_A_PUF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/drza-b779

Producer(s)

Matthew Groh, David McKenzie, Tara Vishwanath

Collection(s)

Impact Evaluation Surveys

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Sep 15, 2014

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Oct 07, 2014

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Main reason of taking out the loan (b_305)

Data file: MacroinsuranceforMicroentrepreneurs

Overview

Valid: 1369

Invalid: 1603

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 275

End: 276

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Why did you originally take out this loan? (Give main reason)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Buy new assets for business	52	3.8%
2	Buy more inventory for business	1161	84.8%
3	Renovation of house	14	1%
4	Pay off previous debt	24	1.8%
5	Buy food or household goods	3	0.2%
6	Marital reasons	6	0.4%
7	Educational reasons	10	0.7%
8	Project renewal	53	3.9%
9	New project	2	0.1%
96	Other	4	0.3%
99		40	2.9%
Sysmiss		1603

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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