Survey of financial capability of Indonesian undergraduates 2015

Johan, Irni and Rowlingson, Karen and Appleyard, Lindsey (2018). Survey of financial capability of Indonesian undergraduates 2015. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Service. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-853209

This data comes from doctoral research carried out by Irni Johan at the University of Birmingham as part of a study to measure the financial capability of Indonesian undergraduates. A total of 521 students were interviewed face-to-face. The overall response rate was 62 per cent – or 69 per cent if we remove the non-contacts from the base of this calculation. The questionnaire used in this study drew heavily on existing questionnaires developed in other studies, particularly the Financial Capability Baseline survey developed in 2005 by Kempson, Collard and others for FSA UK and the Money Advice Service’s Financial Capability Tracker Questionnaire Wave 3, although the questions were slightly modified to make them more suitable for Indonesian undergraduates give that these questionnaires were developed for a general British public survey. Financial capability was measured via three dimensions: financial knowledge/skill; financial attitudes; and financial behaviour. Fieldwork took place between May and September 2015.

Data description (abstract)

Data creators:

Creator Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Johan Irni	Bogor Agricultural University
Rowlingson Karen	University of Birmingham	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3541-6466
Appleyard Lindsey	Coventry University

Sponsors:

Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) PhD studentship, Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM), University of Birmingham, provided support for elements of the data collection

Topic classification:

Social welfare policy and systems
Economics
Education

Keywords:

financial capability

Project title:

Survey of financial capability of Indonesian undergraduates

Grant holders:

Irni Johan, Karen Rowlingson, Lindsey Appleyard

Project dates:

From	To
1 September 2014	31 March 2018

Date published:

23 Jul 2018 14:43

Last modified:

23 Jul 2018 15:30

Coverage and Methodology

Collection period:

Date from:	Date to:
1 May 2015	30 September 2015

Geographical area:

Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) in Bogor City is in the province of West Java, Indonesia

Country:

United Kingdom, Indonesia

Data collection method:

This data was collected as part of doctoral research which measured the financial capability (financial knowledge, attitudes and behaviour) of Indonesian undergraduates at Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) (Johan 2018). Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) in Bogor City is in the province of West Java, Indonesia. The total number of undergraduate students when this was study conducted in 2015 was 13,825 students, spread across nine faculties and 36 departments. The population for this study was all IPB undergraduate students in any of the four years of study. The total population thus was 13,825 students. This study used stratified random sampling (a form of probability sampling), with nine faculties at IPB and gender as the strata. Permission from IPB authorities was gained to sample 892 students from their database and then send emails to them to invite them to participate, with a small prize draw offered to encourage responses. A total of 521 students were interviewed with the number of students interviewed in each faculty proportional to the actual numbers in each. A total of 244 people declined the opportunity to take part and it was not possible to contact a further 98 during the fieldwork period (three attempts were made to contact each sample member). The overall response rate was therefore 62 per cent – or 69 per cent if we remove the non-contacts from the base of this calculation. A face-to-face method of data collection was considered essential to gather the large amount of data needed but this then caused issues of scale for the doctoral student and so it was decided to employ four interviewers to help with the data collection. These interviewers received full training by the doctoral student and were monitored throughout.

Observation unit:

Individual

Kind of data:

Numeric

Type of data:

Other surveys

Resource language:

English

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