Factors that influence saving behaviour among households in Malaysia / Muhammad Afiq Alias and Nurfazliena Syaiha Mustaffa

Malaysia has experienced oscillating in saving funds rate over the few years. These situations became a worrying by analyst, educator, manufacturer and household also more worried about their future. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that influence saving behaviour a...

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Main Authors: Alias, Muhammad Afiq, Mustaffa, Nurfazliena Syaiha
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business and Management 2016
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26789/
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description Malaysia has experienced oscillating in saving funds rate over the few years. These situations became a worrying by analyst, educator, manufacturer and household also more worried about their future. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that influence saving behaviour among Malaysian household. Interest Rate (IR), Inflation Rate (IFR), Consumption Level (CL) and Income Level (IL) are variables that were taken into this research with Saving Behaviour (SBAH). This study is based on the time series data collections which encompass 30 years in yearly basis. The period starting from 1984 to 2014. The researcher is using Eviews 9 software to generate all the data and analyse it for further investigation. After the data generated, the result obtained shows that only one out of four variables accepted which is inflation rate (IFR) are significantly related to the influence of saving behaviour. While the other three variables Interest Rate (IR), Consumption Level (CL) and Income Level (IL) are rejected. The overall investigation is to emphasize the awareness of saving behaviour among household towards the changes of economic situations factors and help household in Malaysia to have a proper financial management especially in saving.
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spelling uitm-267892020-04-02T02:50:09Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26789/ Factors that influence saving behaviour among households in Malaysia / Muhammad Afiq Alias and Nurfazliena Syaiha Mustaffa Alias, Muhammad Afiq Mustaffa, Nurfazliena Syaiha Awareness Personal finance. Financial literacy Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance Malaysia has experienced oscillating in saving funds rate over the few years. These situations became a worrying by analyst, educator, manufacturer and household also more worried about their future. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that influence saving behaviour among Malaysian household. Interest Rate (IR), Inflation Rate (IFR), Consumption Level (CL) and Income Level (IL) are variables that were taken into this research with Saving Behaviour (SBAH). This study is based on the time series data collections which encompass 30 years in yearly basis. The period starting from 1984 to 2014. The researcher is using Eviews 9 software to generate all the data and analyse it for further investigation. After the data generated, the result obtained shows that only one out of four variables accepted which is inflation rate (IFR) are significantly related to the influence of saving behaviour. While the other three variables Interest Rate (IR), Consumption Level (CL) and Income Level (IL) are rejected. The overall investigation is to emphasize the awareness of saving behaviour among household towards the changes of economic situations factors and help household in Malaysia to have a proper financial management especially in saving. Faculty of Business and Management 2016 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26789/1/PPb_MUHAMMAD%20AFIQ%20%20ALIAS%20%20BM%20M%2016_5.pdf Alias, Muhammad Afiq and Mustaffa, Nurfazliena Syaiha (2016) Factors that influence saving behaviour among households in Malaysia / Muhammad Afiq Alias and Nurfazliena Syaiha Mustaffa. (2016) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/26789.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Awareness
Personal finance. Financial literacy
Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance
Alias, Muhammad Afiq
Mustaffa, Nurfazliena Syaiha
Factors that influence saving behaviour among households in Malaysia / Muhammad Afiq Alias and Nurfazliena Syaiha Mustaffa
title Factors that influence saving behaviour among households in Malaysia / Muhammad Afiq Alias and Nurfazliena Syaiha Mustaffa
title_full Factors that influence saving behaviour among households in Malaysia / Muhammad Afiq Alias and Nurfazliena Syaiha Mustaffa
title_fullStr Factors that influence saving behaviour among households in Malaysia / Muhammad Afiq Alias and Nurfazliena Syaiha Mustaffa
title_full_unstemmed Factors that influence saving behaviour among households in Malaysia / Muhammad Afiq Alias and Nurfazliena Syaiha Mustaffa
title_short Factors that influence saving behaviour among households in Malaysia / Muhammad Afiq Alias and Nurfazliena Syaiha Mustaffa
title_sort factors that influence saving behaviour among households in malaysia / muhammad afiq alias and nurfazliena syaiha mustaffa
topic Awareness
Personal finance. Financial literacy
Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26789/