Micro-Enterprise Survey 2019

Zambia, 2019 - 2020

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Reference ID

ZMB_2019_MES_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/6ys1-hq51

Producer(s)

World Bank Group (WBG)

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys

Metadata

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Created on

Jul 22, 2020

Last modified

Jul 22, 2020

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Occupation Prior To This Business Or Activity (b8a)

Data file: zambiamicro_2019_full_data.dta

Overview

Valid: 97

Invalid: -

Minimum: -9

Maximum: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 130

End: 131

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 6

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What was [owner]’s occupation prior to this business or activity?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know (spontaneous)	7	7.2%
1	Employed in the same type of business or activity	20	20.6%
2	Employed in a different type of business or activity	32	33%
3	Self-employed in a different type of business or activity	13	13.4%
4	Self-employed in the same type of business or activity	9	9.3%
5	Unemployed	13	13.4%
6	Other (e.g., housewife, student, etc.)	3	3.1%

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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