BetaBetaDataset
To measure how people including women, the poor and people living in rural residents save, borrow, make payments and manage risks.
The data set can be used to track the effects of financial inclusion policies globally and develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of how people around the world manage their day-to-day finances.
The survey studies use of formal accounts, the frequency of formal account use, mode of formal account use, purposes of formal account use, self-reported reasons for not having a formal account, savings behavior, savings method, sources of borrowing, purposes of borrowing, the use of mobile phones to make payments, and the purchase of health and agriculture insurance.
The Global Findex indicators are drawn from survey data collected by Gallup, Inc. over the 2011 calendar year, covering more than 150,000 adults in 148 economies and representing about 97 percent of the world's population.