295 countries and jurisdictions are surveyed on the presence of stand-alone financial consumer protection laws. This dataset originates from the World Bank's Global Financial Inclusion and Consumer Protection Survey, providing a structured view of legal frameworks worldwide. The specific survey year and update frequency are not provided in the metadata.
Use Cases
- Comparative analysis of financial consumer protection laws across jurisdictions (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Modeling the relationship between legal frameworks and financial inclusion metrics (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Creating a binary indicator for the presence of specific legislation (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the World Bank platform, a major international data source.
- Associated with the Global Financial Inclusion and Consumer Protection Survey, indicating a structured collection process.
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count, sample data, and last update date are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank / Global Financial Inclusion and Consumer Protection Survey
- Collection Method
- Survey data collection.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Geography
- Global (295 countries/jurisdictions)