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Economic literacy: a cross-sectional research in Portuguese undergraduate students.
| Resumo: | Knowledge about the economy and its functioning is fundamental to make informed decisions within the various roles that each individual plays in society, as consumer, seller, producer, investor, worker, and citizen. Economic literacy also has long-term consequences on the stability of the economy as a whole. In Portugal, in the last quarter of 2017, 76.8% of the insolvency judgments decreed by the courts concerned cases involving private individuals. In the third quarter of 2007, compared to the third quarter of 2017, the weight of insolvency of private individuals in the total number of cases almost tripled, from 21.2% to 76.8%. The objectives of this research are: to evaluate undergraduate students' knowledge on economics and to analyze their ability to understand basic economic concepts. To collect the data, it was applied a questionnaire that included socioeconomic variables and the Economic Literacy Test (ELT) developed by the National Council on Economic Education. This test includes twenty questions of multiple choice about basic economic concepts and allows to evaluate the literacy of students and adults in four issues, namely consumer economics, production economics, financial economics, government's economic role, and international trade. The ELT was applied to all students enrolled in the General Economics Principles (GEP) curricular unit, which were present in the first class, in the second half of September 2017, in the context of the Languages for International Relations degree, of a public higher education institution, located in the northern interior of Portugal. Of the 95 students enrolled in GEP, 70 completed the questionnaire obtaining a response rate of 73.7%. Students were, mainly, female (62.9%), with a mean age of 19.75 years old (SD = 2.31), 20% had previous training in economics during secondary education and 14.3% have already attend GEP without success. The level of knowledge was on average 12.46 (SD = 2.783) out of 20. The distribution of students by level of knowledge was as follows: poor (14.3%); fair (44.3%) good (40%) and very good (1.4%). Previous training in economics during secondary education (p = 0.438) or in GEP (p = 0.218) revealed not to be a differentiator factor of the knowledge level. Students had a fair level of knowledge on economic. They performed better on microeconomic issues related by consumer behaviour. They performed worse on macroeconomic issues, in matters related to the government role and inflation. |
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| Autores principais: | Ribeiro, Maria Isabel |
| Outros Autores: | Fernandes, António |
| Assunto: | Economic literacy Undergraduate students Economic literacy test General economics principles |
| Ano: | 2018 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Instituto Politécnico de Bragança |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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| description | Knowledge about the economy and its functioning is fundamental to make informed decisions within the various roles that each individual plays in society, as consumer, seller, producer, investor, worker, and citizen. Economic literacy also has long-term consequences on the stability of the economy as a whole. In Portugal, in the last quarter of 2017, 76.8% of the insolvency judgments decreed by the courts concerned cases involving private individuals. In the third quarter of 2007, compared to the third quarter of 2017, the weight of insolvency of private individuals in the total number of cases almost tripled, from 21.2% to 76.8%. The objectives of this research are: to evaluate undergraduate students' knowledge on economics and to analyze their ability to understand basic economic concepts. To collect the data, it was applied a questionnaire that included socioeconomic variables and the Economic Literacy Test (ELT) developed by the National Council on Economic Education. This test includes twenty questions of multiple choice about basic economic concepts and allows to evaluate the literacy of students and adults in four issues, namely consumer economics, production economics, financial economics, government's economic role, and international trade. The ELT was applied to all students enrolled in the General Economics Principles (GEP) curricular unit, which were present in the first class, in the second half of September 2017, in the context of the Languages for International Relations degree, of a public higher education institution, located in the northern interior of Portugal. Of the 95 students enrolled in GEP, 70 completed the questionnaire obtaining a response rate of 73.7%. Students were, mainly, female (62.9%), with a mean age of 19.75 years old (SD = 2.31), 20% had previous training in economics during secondary education and 14.3% have already attend GEP without success. The level of knowledge was on average 12.46 (SD = 2.783) out of 20. The distribution of students by level of knowledge was as follows: poor (14.3%); fair (44.3%) good (40%) and very good (1.4%). Previous training in economics during secondary education (p = 0.438) or in GEP (p = 0.218) revealed not to be a differentiator factor of the knowledge level. Students had a fair level of knowledge on economic. They performed better on microeconomic issues related by consumer behaviour. They performed worse on macroeconomic issues, in matters related to the government role and inflation. |
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| title_full | Economic literacy: a cross-sectional research in Portuguese undergraduate students. |
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