The MaPS MoneyView survey is a nationally representative survey of over 12,000 adults living in the UK. It offers a unique insight into the population’s financial situation and their current feelings towards their finances. The survey was commissioned by Money and Pensions Service (MaPS).
The survey features a core section asked every year, modules that change each year, and demographics.
- Core section: Financial inclusion, wellbeing and confidence, Need for debt advice, Bills and credit, Savings and financial resilience, Pensions and retirement, Life satisfaction.
- Modules (2024 fieldwork): Life events – usage of money information, guidance and advice, Retirement planning, Planning for Later Life (66+), Material deprivation, Financial inclusion.
- Demographics and classification questions: Income, Demographics (e.g. ethnicity, religion, disability, education), Location (LSOA/equivalent for each UK nation).
It is an amalgamation of two surveys previously run by Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) which are retained on GeoDS Data and can also be applied for via their own record pages (see listing at bottom of this page): the Adult Financial Wellbeing Survey and the Debt Need Survey.
Key questions from these surveys appear in MoneyView.
More detail on the survey is available on the MoneyView section of the MaPS website. Reports based on 2024’s interviews were first published in 2025. As a result, they are referred to “MoneyView 2025”.
Content
GeoDS holds the anonymised individual records containing the responses from each survey participant. Access to this data is available through the GeoDS Data service. The survey answers are available as two record-level CSVs (one with codes and one with labels). There is also a code to a label lookup file, a questionnaire copy and a technical report. The record-level is also available in SPSS format (a .sav file).
Quality, Representation and Bias
The survey is a high quality survey organised by a professional customer surveying firm on behalf of MaPS, online or face-to-face. The survey includes quota/screening questions at the beginning to ensure a broadly representative sample of the population across the UK is included. Each respondent is assigned a weighting value which, when applied, should result in a survey that reflects the demographics of the UK.
Special Stipulation
MaPS requires a disclaimer on publications using the data, that the publication does not necessarily represent its views. The following text is recommended: “Disclaimer: the views and recommendations in this report are those of the organisation publishing this report and its author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the Money and Pensions Service whose data was used to produce it.”
