This statistic shows the main purpose of personal loans received via peer-to-peer (P2P) consumer lending platforms in the United Kingdom (UK) according to a survey on the alternative finance market in 2014. Approximately 46 percent of respondents took the loan in order to finance the purchase of a car or another vehicle.
What did you raise money through peer-to-peer consumer lending for?
primary industry figures as well as extensive surveys of businesses and consumers
Supplementary notes
The methodology is clarified by the source as follows: "Four stages of research activity were carried out from March to September 2014. (1) Stage one involved collecting primary transactional data directly from alternative finance platforms. (2) Stage two consisted of designing and distributing model-specific questionnaires to survey funders and fundraisers of alternative finance. In total 15,658 users were surveyed. (3) Stage three conducted in association with ACCA and PwC included two external national surveys to understand the level of awareness among consumers of alternative finance. 2,007 consumers and 506 SMEs were surveyed. (4) Stage four was the industry-wide tracking survey among UK crowdfunding associations and P2P associations to gather industrial figures for year 2014. Transactional data was collected for quarters one to three of 2014."
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Nesta. (November 7, 2014). What did you raise money through peer-to-peer consumer lending for? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/372742/alternative-finance-p2p-consumer-lending-purpose-of-loan/
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