Financial Literacy and Consumer Awareness Survey 2011

1. This file contains all the data from the questionnaire, which include 20 descriptive variables about the respondent followed by his/her response to the survey questions under 8 categories, including financial market and services related questions, financial education and literacy related questions, and household financial management questions.
a. Before the survey-related questions, there are three questions (O1, O2, O3) in the survey under the heading “Refusals” which discuss why the respondent did not take the survey. The results of these questions are not given in the dataset.

2. For multiple choice questions, each selection made by the individual is saved as a unique variable. For instance, question C6 allowed for multiple choices and if a person selected 3 of the given options: a, d and f; then his selection will be marked as “yes” for C6_a, C6_d and C6_f while his selection will be marked as “no” for C6_b, C6_c, C6_e, C6_g, C6_h, C6_i, C6_j and C6_k

3. D11 is a multiple choice question but the data contains only one variable which track one choice of the respondent.

4. Questions that required text responses, especially questions with “Other…” option, have data in the regional language, i.e., not in English. The questions with these responses are P4, P5, P8, G2_f_text, G3_a, G3_b, G3_c, G12_5, H2