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DATASETS USED
COUNTRY
SURVEY
YEAR
SAMPLE SIZE
Households
Individuals
Bahamas
SLC
2001
Barbadosa
LFS
1998,
5582
2001;
6370
2004
4037
Dominica
SLC
2002
952
3166
Grenada
SLC
1999
1121
4061
Guyana
LCS
1999
Jamaicaa
SLC; LFS
1999;
2001;
2003
St. Kitts and Nevis
SLC
Trinidad and
SLC
Tobago*
LFS: labour force survey
1999/2000
900
1997
1787
2762
6571
*: after cleaning
a: unless otherwise stated the analyses are based on the 2004 for Barbados and 2003 for Jamaica.
* In the case of Trinidad and Tobago, the research was executed using the SLC 1997 dataset. Field work has
been completed for a 2005 SLC. However, at the time of writing, the researchers did not have access to the 2005
micro dataset.
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