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Financial well-being: financial ratio analysis of married public sector workers in Malaysia


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Ramli, Zaimah and Masud, Jariah and Haron, Sharifah Azizah and Othman, Mumtazah and Awang, Abd Hair and Md Sum, Sarmila (2013) Financial well-being: financial ratio analysis of married public sector workers in Malaysia. Asian Social Science, 9 (14). pp. 1-6. ISSN 1911-2017; ESSN: 1911-2025

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the usefulness of two family financial ratio guidelines in assessing the financial well-being of married public sector workers in Malaysia. The ratios examined were savings and debt-payment. Data on 415 workers were gathered from the Financial Well-being of Workers of Dual-earner Family survey report in 2008. The findings showed most of the workers had a savings ratio of less than 10 percent. Meanwhile, more than half of the workers had debt-payments ratio of more than or equal to 20 percent. In addition, the workers fall into four categories, namely are A, B, C and D, of which level A is the best and level D the worst. Typically, most of the workers are in level D (42.2%) and level B (30.1%). In summary, the study revealed that the culture of saving among the workers was still at the unsatisfactorily level.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Human Ecology
Institute of Gerontology
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v9n14p1
Publisher: Canadian Center of Science and Education
Keywords: Financial well-being; Married public sector workers; Dual-earner families; Objective measurement; Saving ratio; Debt-payment ratio
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 11 Mar 2015 08:15
Last Modified: 23 Oct 2017 02:56
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28197
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