Personal financial literacy among Universiti Utara Malaysia students

This study surveys 377 Universiti Utara Malaysia students to examine their personal financial literacy; the relationship between the literacy and students' opinions and decisions.Results show that participants answer about 29.6% of questions correctly.Almost all sections of the survey beginnin...

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Main Authors: Md. Sum, Rabihah, Md. Jadi, Diara, Ramli, Mohmad zahid
Format: Monograph
Language:English
Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2006
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spelling my.uum.repo.77512013-06-11T01:08:46Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/7751/ Personal financial literacy among Universiti Utara Malaysia students Md. Sum, Rabihah Md. Jadi, Diara Ramli, Mohmad zahid HG Finance This study surveys 377 Universiti Utara Malaysia students to examine their personal financial literacy; the relationship between the literacy and students' opinions and decisions.Results show that participants answer about 29.6% of questions correctly.Almost all sections of the survey beginning form personal knowledge, savings and borrowing, insurance and investment receive a very low average on correct answers (those under the 60% category).The insurance section receives the lowest mean correct response of only 20.4%.It is concluded that the overall UUM students have a very low level of knowledge about personal finance.The low level of knowledge will limit their ability to make informed decisions. Universiti Utara Malaysia 2006 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/7751/1/RE.pdf Md. Sum, Rabihah and Md. Jadi, Diara and Ramli, Mohmad zahid (2006) Personal financial literacy among Universiti Utara Malaysia students. Project Report. Universiti Utara Malaysia. (Unpublished) http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000300898
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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Md. Sum, Rabihah
Md. Jadi, Diara
Ramli, Mohmad zahid
Personal financial literacy among Universiti Utara Malaysia students
description This study surveys 377 Universiti Utara Malaysia students to examine their personal financial literacy; the relationship between the literacy and students' opinions and decisions.Results show that participants answer about 29.6% of questions correctly.Almost all sections of the survey beginning form personal knowledge, savings and borrowing, insurance and investment receive a very low average on correct answers (those under the 60% category).The insurance section receives the lowest mean correct response of only 20.4%.It is concluded that the overall UUM students have a very low level of knowledge about personal finance.The low level of knowledge will limit their ability to make informed decisions.
format Monograph
author Md. Sum, Rabihah
Md. Jadi, Diara
Ramli, Mohmad zahid
author_facet Md. Sum, Rabihah
Md. Jadi, Diara
Ramli, Mohmad zahid
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title Personal financial literacy among Universiti Utara Malaysia students
title_short Personal financial literacy among Universiti Utara Malaysia students
title_full Personal financial literacy among Universiti Utara Malaysia students
title_fullStr Personal financial literacy among Universiti Utara Malaysia students
title_full_unstemmed Personal financial literacy among Universiti Utara Malaysia students
title_sort personal financial literacy among universiti utara malaysia students
publisher Universiti Utara Malaysia
publishDate 2006
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/7751/1/RE.pdf
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