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What is Financial Health?
Financial health comes about when your daily systems help you build resilience and pursue opportunities. We believe that financial health is the best indicator of a person’s ability to thrive financially – from weathering shocks to achieving their goals.
Defining Financial Health
Financial health is a composite measurement of an individual’s financial life. Unlike narrow metrics such as credit scores, financial health assesses whether people are spending, saving, borrowing, and planning in ways that will enable them to be resilient and pursue opportunities. We measure financial health using our proprietary FinHealth Score® framework, which is based on eight survey questions that align with the eight indicators of financial health.
Indicators of Financial Health
Financial health can be measured using eight indicators of financial health.
Calculating and Interpreting FinHealth Scores
We calculate an aggregate FinHealth Score based on an individual’s answers to the eight finhealth indicator questions. The graphic below shows how to interpret financial health scores across the spectrum of 0 to 100.
Individuals who are Financially Healthy are able to manage their day-to-day expenses, absorb financial shocks, and progress toward meeting their long-term financial goals. Approximately two-thirds of people in America are classified as Financially Coping (struggling with some aspects of their financial lives) or Financially Vulnerable (struggling with almost all aspects of their financial lives).
How We Use FinHealth Scores
The Financial Health Network uses FinHealth Scores to understand how Americans are faring financially and to see where we should focus our efforts to achieve the greatest impact. We analyze FinHealth Scores across demographic factors, such as race, age, and gender identity, and review year-over-year trends to evaluate our progress and identify persistent inequities.
We also use the FinHealth Score framework to help businesses measure the financial health of their customers and employees. To start measuring, request theFinHealth Score® Toolkit.
Featured Research
Research Paper
This year’s annual FinHealth Spend Report examines how households in America managed their finances and accessed credit during the second year of the pandemic, analyzing year-over-year trends for more than two dozen financial products and services.
Market Analysis
Apr 28, 2022
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Discover how Americans’ financial health outcomes have changed as COVID-19 continued to create unprecedented disruptions.
Measurement
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With this report – an evolution of our Financially Underserved Market Size Study – we shed light on how much households paid for a variety of everyday financial products and services in 2020, through lenses of financial health, income, race, and ethnicity.
Market Analysis
Jun 11, 2021
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