Measuring financial inclusion in the main euro area countries: the role of electronic cards
Pubblicato il 22/07/19 00:00 [Doc.6483]
di BANCA D'ITALIA
(Occasional Papers)
Number 504 - July 2019
by Giorgio Nuzzo and Stefano Piermattei
Contents
1. Introduction .........................................................................................................................5
2. Review of the literature .......................................................................................................9
3. Data description.................................................................................................................11
4. A synthetic measure of financial inclusion........................................................................14
4.1 Usual dimensions of financial inclusion..................................................................16
4.2 Including electronic cards in the financial inclusion index .....................................19
5. Measuring intra-national inequalities and multidimensional deprivations........................22
6. Data quality issues and challenges for statisticians...........................................................27
7. Conclusions .......................................................................................................................29
References..............................................................................................................................31
Appendix ................................................................................................................................35
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