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Annexes Table A1. Descriptive statistics Variable (shares) and assigned short labels

Ob s.

Mean Std. Dev.

Min

Max

Dependence on remittances A little bit

(RE.1) 33 0.105 0.042 0.032 0.241 (RE.2) 33 0.073 0.031 0.027 0.155 (RE.3) 33 0.040 0.028 0.008 0.133

Somewhat

A lot

Economic vulnerability Frequency of going without cash (Several times)

(CI.1) 33 0.260 0.076 0.106 0.450

Frequency of going without cash (Many times) (CI.2) 33 0.225 0.137 0.011 0.554 Frequency of going without cash (Always) (CI.3) 33 0.123 0.093 0.005 0.345 Not employed (CI.4) 33 0.678 0.121 0.399 0.857 Financial exclusion No mobile phone access to the internet (FI.1) 33 0.433 0.159 0.236 0.780 No Bank Account (FI.2) 33 0.436 0.218 0.035 0.913 No Bank in PSU/EA (FI.3) 33 0.734 0.136 0.483 0.912 Note: The reported variables are not normalised. PSU/EA stand for primary sampling unit/enumeration area. Source: own elaboration of Afrobarometer data (2016-2018 wave)

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