Graduation Requirements Data

State High School Graduation Requirement Data (1970-2024)

Local High School Personal Finance Course Requirements and Offerings Across America (2018-2020)

Check out a map of personal finance courses and search your state!

Policy Briefs

Issue Brief: "Financial Education in High Schools Across America"

FINRA Investor Education Foundation Issue Brief: "State Mandated Financial Education: It's All in the Implementation"

FINRA Investor Education Foundation Issue Brief: "State Mandated Financial Education: A National Database of Graduation Requirements" 

Code

Code to create state- and national-level financial well-being scores using the 2018 National Financial Capability Study. The code is intended to be used with the State-by-State Survey Respondent-Level Data. A dataset converting the SAS file along with its labels in STATA format is also provided.  The data and data dictionairies can be found at www.usfinancialcapability.org 

Code to create a "pseudo financial well-being" measure to mimic the financial well-being score from 2018 but spans 2012, 2015, and 2018 NFCS datasets is below. The file requires the user to downlaod the NFCS 2012 and 2015 datasets and convert them to STATA formats.