The research follows a pilot project in 2018 in which 1,700 Experian customers completed a series of everyday maths questions using the National Numeracy Challenge and submitted their results to be cross-checked against their credit score 1.
National Numeracy Chief Executive, Mike Ellicock, said: “We are looking forward to working with Experian and partners to build upon this initial research to explore and understand this link. Most of us would benefit from getting better control of our finances and brushing up on our number skills would seem to be a good place to start.
“At National Numeracy we’ve found that the hardest thing is to get going; but every day hundreds of adults are using the Challenge, our free, confidential online resource to improve and we hope that our work with Experian persuades thousands of others to do so too.”
