This paper studies the characteristics of credit card holders in Malaysia and distinguishes
between convenience users and revolvers. A Tobit model with binary selection and ordinal
treatment is developed to accommodate the data feature that debts are incurred only among
card holders and the endogeneity of card holding in card debt. Results from a stratified sample
in Malaysia indicate that age, household size, income, education, loan commitments, and
current-account ownership play a role in card holding. Age, loan commitments, previous
card holdings, current-account ownership, and bad debt history affect the probability and
level of card debt. Multi-card holders are more likely to be credit revolvers than convenience