MaPS Financial Wellbeing Survey

The Money and Pensions Service's Financial Wellbeing Survey 2021 "is a nationally representative survey of over 10,000 adults living in the UK. The questionnaire covers the building blocks required for people to feel financially resilient, confident, and empowered." The 2021 survey builds upon previous Financial Capability Surveys carried out in 2015 and 2018. The CDRC holds the anonymised individual records containing the responses from each survey participant. Access to this data is available through the CDRC Data service. The following words appear most frequently in the questions and selectable options: money partner none know spouse financial following credit income started home pension pay last say children prefer bank please savings retirement account years buy saving loan leave months specify help best something describes thinking bills often paid insurance personal sick working online work family tax illness current living currently day people cover support example internet child job live using use household borrow card five first building employer married plan hours phone college grown-up someone life finances put payments car purchase benefits events happened friends investments illnesses allowance health time total rent spouse's dependent save commitments care thought education society company expenses benefit sources workplace mental self-isolating religion conditions think registered next student approximately mobile services etc information paying members parent making decisions track hire credits store cards The survey answer data is available as two record-level CSVs (one with codes and one with labels). There is also a code to label lookup file, a questionnaire copy and a technical report supplied, along with a metadata document showing how the questions in this survey relate to two previous similar surveys carried out (the 2015 and 2018 Financial Capability Surveys), commentary and web-links to external sources which formed some of the questions. Successful applications will be sent the full dataset and accompanying files.