Vast majority of Poles wants compulsory financial education
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The survey “The level of financial knowledge of Poles 2020”, presented during the 4th Congress of Financial Education and Entrepreneurship, shows that more than half of Poles (52 percent) believe that their knowledge about finance is small or very small. As many as 92 percent of respondents believe that educational activities in this area should be compulsory.
Young people aged 18-24 (83 percent) and rural residents (71 percent) feel definitely the least confident in the area of financial knowledge.
Among the various aspects of financial knowledge, the subject of cybersecurity invariably raises the most problems (54 percent). Next, the deficit of knowledge of public finance (41 percent) and entrepreneurship (34 percent) was pointed out.
The study was commissioned by the Warsaw Institute of Banking (WIB) and the WSE Foundation.
(WBJ)
