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PAK · Wealth benchmark

Pakistan wealth reference

Article published 2020; survey year unverified · Household · PKR

Lower confidence · historical research sample

424 Karakoram-area male-respondent households: 212 microfinance treatment and 212 comparison

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What the data can tell us

Microfinance treatment group average household net worthKarakoram treatment households (n=212)
PKR 1,415,380Published average
Comparison group average household net worthKarakoram comparison households (n=212)
PKR 1,408,073Published average

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Selected group: Study groups · Microfinance participants · Average.

Original source group

Microfinance treatment group average household net worth · Karakoram treatment households (n=212) · Household.

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Source and limitations

Wealth measure: Study-specific respondent household net worth, split by microfinance exposure group

  • Regional, male-respondent research sample, not nationally representative Pakistani households.
  • Treatment and comparison groups must remain separate, even though their reported averages are similar.
  • Published sample averages do not establish a national median, percentile or population rank.

Source: Kifayat Ullah, Abdul Qayyum Mohsin, Abdul Saboor and Saranjam Baig (2020), 'Financial Inclusion, Socioeconomic Disaster Risks and Sustainable Mountain Development: Empirical Evidence from the Karakoram Valleys of Pakistan,' Sustainability 12(22), 9737, Table 4, DOI 10.3390/su12229737. Average household net-worth figures from the 424-household study: treatment PKR 1,415,380 and comparison PKR 1,408,073; CC BY 4.0.

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