2021 national survey dashboards

The Government undertook the first biennial national financial capability survey in 2021.

The purpose of the survey is to measure how progress and changes in financial capability are occurring over time across the general population and within target cohorts. The interactive data dashboard series helps you to explore the results from the first survey.

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Adult survey dashboards

Financial attitude

Australians’ mindsets and opinions about their finances.

Financial behaviours

The actions that individuals take when engaging with their finances.

Financial literacy

Individuals’ understanding of money and financial concepts, products and services and their own financial situation.

Financial wellbeing

Whether individuals feel they have adequate income to meet basic needs, manage debts and have money left over.

Engagement with financial technology

How individuals are using digital financial products and services to manage their financial resources.

Financial products

The facilities through which individuals manage risk and save, invest and borrow money.

National financial capability score

Financial capability scores based on responses to the financial attitudes, behaviours and literacy sections of the survey.

Young Australians survey dashboards

Financial literacy

Young Australians’ understanding of money and financial concepts, products and services and their own financial situation.

Financial attitude

Young Australians’ mindsets and opinions toward their finances.

Financial behaviour and learning

Actions that young Australians take when engaging with their finances and learning about financial concepts.

Young Australians financial capability score

The financial capability scores of young Australians based on responses to the financial attitudes, behaviours and literacy sections of the survey.

Results are based on a survey of 9,968 adults and 738 young people between the ages of 14-17 across Australia and have been reweighted to be more representative of the population as a whole. Nonetheless, care should be taken when interpreting the results, particularly for the smaller sample sizes that accompany disaggregated responses and for outcomes that are likely to have high underlying variability.