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Relationship between Demographic Factors and Digital Financial Literacy

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  • Abdul Azeez N.P
  • Jawed Akhtar S.M
  • Nasira Banu M

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Digital financial literacy has recently piqued the interest of researchers and policymakers worldwide, especially in India. Financial inclusion could be effectively achieved by promoting digital financial literacy. Digitalization and faster internet technologies lead to a greater rural and urban digital divide due to their digital incompetency and illiteracy. Much literature shows that demographic variables namely age, gender, marital status, level of education, social groups, religion, profession, size of the family, APL/BPL, and the size of the landholding has a significant relation with digital financial literacy. Therefore, all these factors should be taken into account when developing financial training programmes to improve digital financial literacy. This paper tries to identify the relationship between digital financial literacy and demographic factors in rural areas of India. A multi-stage sampling technique has been used for choosing the 500 respondents from the rural areas of the Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh for the study.

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  • Abdul Azeez N.P & Jawed Akhtar S.M & Nasira Banu M, 2022. "Relationship between Demographic Factors and Digital Financial Literacy," Romanian Economic Journal, Department of International Business and Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, vol. 25(84), pages 41-53, December,.
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    Keywords

    Digital Financial Literacy; Digitalization; Digital Financial Awareness; Digital Financial Aptitude; Digital Financial Behaviour.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General

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