The challenge of assessing financial literacy: alternative data analysis methods within the Italian context

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 2 The measure of the items for FBI, FAI, FKI, and financial literary index

z	Financial knowledge index			Outfit MNSQ	Financial attitude index			Outfit MNSQ	Financial behavior index			Outfit MNSQ	Financial global index			Outfit MNSQ
Item	Measure	SE	INFIT MNSQ	Outfit MNSQ	Measure	SE	INFIT MNSQ	Outfit MNSQ	Measure	SE	INFIT MNSQ	Outfit MNSQ	Measure	SE	INFIT MNSQ	Outfit MNSQ
B1									− 2.19	0.09	0.36	0.27	− 0.99	0.09	0.26	0.23
B2									− 1.93	0.09	0.49	0.41	− 0.78	0.09	0.43	0.4
B3									− 1.22	0.08	0.66	0.52	− 0.18	0.08	0.74	0.68
B4									0.41	0.07	0.87	0.84	1.19	0.06	0.97	0.97
B5									1.87	0.07	0.99	1.07	2.41	0.06	0.99	0.99
B6									− 1.18	0.08	0.86	0.87	− 0.13	0.08	0.78	0.73
B7									1.55	0.07	1.62	1.76	2.13	0.06	1.82	1.77
B8									2.69	0.08	1.12	1.15	3.09	0.07	1.07	1.13
A1					− 0.65	0.03	1.21	1.06					− 5.87	0.03	1.05	0.9
A2					− 0.45	0.03	0.84	0.78					− 5.73	0.03	0.9	0.88
A3					1.1	0.03	0.94	1.16					− 4.67	0.03	0.95	1.09
K1	− 0.99	0.07	1.00	1.02									0.88	0.06	0.96	0.94
K2	0.63	0.07	0.87	0.82									2.05	0.06	0.94	0.93
K3	0.81	0.07	0.99	1.00									2.17	0.06	0.97	0.97
K4	− 2.01	0.09	1.07	1.3									0.18	0.07	0.9	0.88
K5	− 0.16	0.07	0.93	0.91									1.45	0.06	0.98	0.98
K6	1.72	0.08	1.14	1.31									2.81	0.07	1.00	1.02