Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning of Working-Age People

Tatiyaporn Sirisakdakul (best.tati@hotmail.com) and Butsakorn Khornjamnong
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Tatiyaporn Sirisakdakul: Faculty of Liberal Arts and Management Science, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Butsakorn Khornjamnong: Faculty of Liberal Arts and Management Science, Kasetsart University, Thailand

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Abstract: Objective - This study aimed to investigate the level of understanding of financial knowledge and the relationship between financial literacy and retirement planning of working-age people. Methodology � The participants of the study were residents of Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom and Mukdahan, Thailand. The questionnaire is the research tool for collecting data with 1,200 adults, aged between 25-60. This study will use a descriptive statistical analysis to describe frequency, percentage, mean and mode. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method is widely used to describe the relationship between financial literacy and retirement planning. Findings � The result show that the level of education has a positive relationship with financial literacy. Most of middle lower income people have a moderate to low level of the basic financial literacy and are not involved in retirement planning. The respondents of women in Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom and Mukdahan have more understanding of retirement planning than men; this result is different to the previous research undertaken by Lusardi and Mitchell (2011), Bucher-Koenen and Lusardi (2011) Grohmann et al. (2016). Novelty � This paper will study the level of understanding of financial knowledge and the relationship between financial literacy and retirement planning of working-age people. Most of the previous research concentrated on people who live in the big city; there was. little focus on people living in the countryside, especially in the Northeastern part of Thailand. Not too many papers have focused on the working-age people, who in due course will contribute to Thailand becoming an Aging Society. It could help to the government, labor union, Bureau of Financial Inclusion Policy and Development and related departments to know the level of financial knowledge and retirement planning. So, they could provide guidance of financial literacy to community. Type of Paper - Empirical

Keywords: Financial literacy; Retirement planning; Working-age people (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 G02 I22 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9
Date: 2020-12-31
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Published in Journal of Finance and Banking Review, Volume 5, Issue 3

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DOI: 10.35609/jfbr.2020.5.3(4)

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