A study of financial awareness among teachers in secondary school

This research seeks to investigate the financial awareness among teachers in secondary schools. The purpose of this study to examine the differences in general financial and financial product based on gender, education level and education major. The population of the study is teachers in secondary schools at Bentong, Pahang. The study has distributed 217 questionnaires to the teachers in secondary school at Bentong, Pahang through personally administered questionnaire. Stratified sampling method is used in collecting data and the results compiled by using SPSS software system. The result comprises of reliability test, frequency distribution and independent T-test. The results revealed that male teacher have more financial awareness compared to female teachers. In this study, there was no difference in financial and insurances awareness between higher education and lower education level. The result also indicates that non-business majors were more likely to be high knowledge about insurance than business majors. Finally, the limitation and recommendation are included to help further researchers to have a better finding of the result.