Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database 2017

Sri Lanka, 2017

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Reference ID

LKA_2017_FINDEX_v02_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/x5e1-gc77

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Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit

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Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database

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Oct 22, 2018

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Possibility of coming up with emergency funds (fin24)

Data file: micro_lka

Overview

Valid: 1104

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 62

End: 62

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

(READ:) This next section is about borrowing money for different purposes and from different sources such as family and friends, and banks, [local terminology for formal financial lenders], or other formal financial institutions.

Literal question

FINANCIAL RESILIENCE SECTION

Now, imagine that you have an emergency and you need to pay [1/20 of GNI per capita in local currency]. Is it possible or not possible that you could come up with [1/20 of GNI per capita in local currency] within the NEXT MONTH?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Possible	479	43.4%
2	Not possible	596	54%
3	(dk)	24	2.2%
4	(ref)	5	0.5%

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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Question post text

Possible > (Continue)
Not possible > (Skip to FIN26)
(DK) > (Continue)
(Refused) > Continue

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