Mobile Phone Borrowing Rates Among Educated Adults, Global Findex Data

World Bank data measuring the percentage of adults aged 15 and over with secondary education or more who report using someone else's mobile phone within a three-month period. The dataset originates from the Global Findex database, a primary source for financial inclusion indicators. The specific time range and geographic coverage for this indicator are not provided in the available metadata.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between education level and reliance on borrowed mobile devices for digital access (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Benchmarking informal mobile phone usage across different countries or regions (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Modeling barriers to personal mobile ownership among educated populations (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the World Bank platform, a major international data source.
• Sourced from the authoritative Global Findex database.

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 specific temporal coverage are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Global Findex database

Collection Method

Likely collected via national representative surveys.

Time Range

Past three months (referenced in title), but overall dataset time range is unknown.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Global (inferred from Global Findex source), but specific countries covered are unknown.