Survey of Living Conditions 1991

Jamaica, 1991

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Reference ID

JAM_1991_SLC_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistical Institute of Jamaica, Planning Institute of Jamaica

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Sep 25, 2015

Last modified

Jan 30, 2020

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Item Code Number (item_cd)

Data file: REC010

Overview

Valid: 1586

Invalid: 808

Minimum: 250

Maximum: 259

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 7

End: 9

Width: 3

Range: 250 - 259

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
250	Life and Fire Insurance	134	8.4%
251	Car Insurance	117	7.4%
252	Health Insurance	171	10.8%
253	Taxes (NEC), vehicle taxes and duties	41	2.6%
254	Weddings, funerals	57	3.6%
255	Donations and gifts (church or union dues, gifts, charities..)	762	48%
256	Repayment of loans, interest payments	30	1.9%
257	Support for children who live elsewhere	118	7.4%
258	Other maintenance of relatives outside the home	139	8.8%
259	Other non-consumption expenditures (legal services, anything else...)	17	1.1%
Sysmiss		808

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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