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Item Age Group and Financial Literacy Rate; Special Reference to Wewala West GN Division(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics 2018/2019. Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Perera, P. G. T. N.Financial literacy has direct impact on financial decision making. In present society there are some troubles with lack of financial literacy. According to the previous literature in many countries, one can identify various factors are affecting to financial literacy rate. Main objective of this study is identifying the age group which is highly financial literate in Sri Lankan context. As well as identifying the other factors affected to financial literacy rate. This study was selected 300 households using simple random sampling technique as the sample from 1442 number of households in the Wewala West GN division which is the population of this study. Here only used primary data for research purposes and they were collected through structured questionnaire. For the analysis purposes analytical tools that validity analysis, frequency analysis, factor analysis, weighted average, chi square test and also one-way ANOVA have used for analysis part of this study. This study finds that gender, household’s monthly income, education level, sector of job and age category are significantly affecting factor for the financial literacy rate while race is not significantly affect to financial literacy rate. Education level and age are the most important factors among the affected factors. And also this study finds that there is a different between age groups on financial literacy rate and people between age 36-50 and also above 60 groups are significantly have high level of financial literacy rate.Item Age Group and Financial Literacy Rate; Based On Wewala West GN Division(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Perera, P. G. T. N.Financial decision making is an integral part of daily life of people. Most of financial decisions are made as own decision without advise of financial specialists. Financial literacy has direct impact on financial decision making. In present society there are some troubles with lack of financial literacy. According to the previous literature in many countries, one can identify various factors are affecting to financial literacy rate. Main objective of this study is identifying the age group which is highly financial literate in Sri Lankan context. As well as identifying the other factors affected to financial literacy rate. This study was selected 300 households using simple random sampling technique as the sample from 1442 number of households in the Wewala West GN division which is the population of this study. Here only used primary data for research purposes and they were collected through structured questionnaire which designed as three main parts according to collect qualitative data. Questionnaire contained basically 2 parts as demographic data and financial literacy data. For the analysis purposes analytical tools that validity analysis, frequency analysis, factor analysis, weighted average, chi square test and also one way ANOVA have used for analysis part of this study. Study was constructed index for financial literacy is between 0 - 5.02. Using these index values categorized people two categories as high and low financial literate using the median value of index. This study find that gender, household’s monthly income, education level, sector of job and age category are significantly affecting factor for the financial literacy rate while race is not significantly affect to financial literacy rate. Education level and age are the most important factors among the affected factors. And also this study finds that there is a different between age groups on financial literacy rate and people between age 36-50 and also above 60 groups are significantly have high level of financial literacy rateItem A Study on How the Usage of Mobile Phones Affects the Human Social Interactions in Different Ages(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Ranaweera, K.G.N.U.Mobile phones (MPs) have become staple and common equipment today. At present society The main objective of this study is to investigate in what ways the usage of MPs affects the human social interactions in different ages. Accidental sample was selected including 500 people from the Colombo district and Galle district (250 people from each) according to 4 age groups: 16-19, 20-30, and 31-45 and above 46. Semi structured interviews and observation were used for data collection during the period from of December 2015 to April 2016. Data had been analyzed using MS Excel application. Findings revealed that MPs are being used by all age groups for communication and other purposes and voice call was common for all ages. MPs are being used for log in to social media, surfing internet, e-mailing and texting by both 16-19 and 20-30 age groups. Minority of the people of age group 31-45 were using MPs not for texting but for voice calls. Majority people of the age group above 46 were using MP only for incoming calls. Fewer of them were using MPs for texting and surfing internet. Moreover, the purposes of using MPs and the type of MPs were depending on the financial status and education level of the users. More than 75% people of the sample were using smart phones. Many of the 16-19 and 20-30 age groups were using MP for association with peers. Among them there were 35 percentage of students and working people who were using MPs for affinity with relations. The age group 31-45 was using MPs for finding out of their children and relations. Majority of the age group above 46 were using MPs to have information from relations and closed ones. Conclusion of the study is that each age group was using MPs to amplify of their social interactions and that it has a negative effect on face to face communication. At the same time who reveals that the usage of MPs has multiplied social interaction than the period of MPs were rare.