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. 2021 Jul 28;34(4):1385–1443. doi: 10.1007/s00148-021-00854-1

Table 9.

Share of individuals able to work under the lockdown with perfect compliance, by individual characteristics and by country

Countries Male Female Below 9 years of education Above 9 years of education Rural Urban Informal Formal Size firm—small Size firm—medium Size firm—large Quintile total labour income—first Quintile total labour income—second Quintile total labour income—third Quintile total labour income—fourth Quintile total labour income—fifth
All 0.56 0.53 0.52 0.57 0.72 0.51 0.50 0.60 0.49 0.52 0.60 0.55 0.50 0.51 0.53 0.63
Argentina a 0.32 0.44 0.19 0.44 0.37 0.21 0.56 0.20 0.44 0.67 0.19 0.28 0.38 0.49 0.59
Bahamas a 0.51 0.55 0.53 0.49 0.54 0.55 0.49 0.56 0.48 0.53 0.66
Barbados 0.47 0.57 0.40 0.53 0.41 0.45 0.48 0.66 0.68
Belize 0.75 0.56 0.69 0.66 0.75 0.62 0.69 0.69 0.67 0.63 0.68
Bolivia 0.61 0.63 0.63 0.61 0.76 0.57 0.56 0.80 0.58 0.73 0.83 0.67 0.55 0.58 0.64 0.64
Brazil 0.58 0.49 0.49 0.57 0.77 0.51 0.47 0.57 0.40 0.35 0.52 0.50 0.46 0.52 0.55 0.66
Chile 0.52 0.65 0.51 0.59 0.70 0.56 0.49 0.61 0.39 0.50 0.61 0.52 0.55 0.55 0.56 0.69
Colombia 0.66 0.54 0.59 0.62 0.80 0.56 0.56 0.68 0.56 0.51 0.76 0.56 0.56 0.58 0.61 0.73
Costa Rica 0.94 0.90 0.92 0.93 0.93 0.92 0.91 0.93 0.92 0.87 0.95 0.92 0.91 0.91 0.92 0.95
Dominican Republic 0.46 0.51 0.42 0.51 0.57 0.46 0.37 0.62 0.41 0.58 0.65 0.42 0.43 0.48 0.44 0.56
Ecuador 0.56 0.62 0.59 0.58 0.78 0.51 0.53 0.67 0.53 0.57 0.79 0.65 0.53 0.50 0.51 0.70
El Salvador 0.48 0.30 0.39 0.43 0.51 0.35 0.37 0.51 0.39 0.43 0.60 0.31 0.37 0.30 0.33 0.54
Guatemala 0.62 0.57 0.57 0.60 0.65 0.56 0.60 0.63 0.60 0.63 0.60 0.71 0.68 0.54 0.50 0.59
Jamaica 0.71 0.67 0.72 0.68 0.75 0.65 0.67 0.71 0.77 0.57 0.55 0.69 0.73 0.84
Mexico 0.52 0.55 0.50 0.58 0.67 0.49 0.53 0.54 0.53 0.55 0.50 0.61 0.50 0.45 0.48 0.60
Nicaragua 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Paraguay 0.56 0.57 0.55 0.58 0.70 0.50 0.52 0.70 0.60 0.60 0.74 0.65 0.48 0.49 0.54 0.65
Peru 0.48 0.40 0.51 0.41 0.78 0.36 0.38 0.65 0.35 0.42 0.74 0.52 0.41 0.38 0.40 0.51
Uruguay 0.94 0.93 0.94 0.93 0.95 0.93 0.92 0.94 0.94 0.90 0.95 0.92 0.92 0.94 0.95 0.96
Venezuela 0.48 0.67 0.46 0.60 0.43 0.72 0.43 0.52 0.78 0.59 0.58 0.55 0.56 0.50

Source: Harmonised Household Surveys of Latin America and the Caribbean, authors’ own calculations

Notes: The shares for the entire LAC region have been calculated as a weighted average of the population in each country, excluding Argentina and the Bahamas, which are not representative at the national level, and Nicaragua to be consistent with the scenario under imperfect compliance. When the information was not available, we leave the cells as empty

a Sample restricted to urban areas