Volume 9, Issue 3, November 2014, Pages 1313–1322
Naseer Ahmad1, Ghulam Abbas2, and Hassan Ghaffoor3
1 Department of Sociology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Bahadur sub Campus Layyah, Pakistan
2 Department of Sociology B.Z.U Bahadur sub Campus Layyah, Pakistan
3 Department of Sociology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Bahadur sub Campus Layyah, Pakistan
Original language: English
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For the development of any country the education is necessary. Education is the right of both genders male and female. In the different rural areas of Pakistan it is a red signal that people deprived their female from education. Layyah is the backward district of Punjab where the literacy rate is comfortable as compare to as a whole but in the rural areas of this district the female participation is very low. This research was conducted in the three union councils of district Layyah. This is quantitative research because it was an exploratory study. These UCs were selected through systematic random sampling. A sample size of 150 respondents was selected through systematic random sampling. District Layyah was selected as the universe for the present research. Another reason for selecting this city was the easily accessibility of collecting data from rural area. Parents of girls who were illiterate were selected as respondent for the present research. Interview schedule was used as the tool for data collection. The reason was that the mostly people showed non serious behavior towards questionnaire and majority of respondents were illiterate. Before the collection of actual data, it was required to test the accuracy the work ability of information .For this purpose the interview schedule was pre-test to 10 respondents on the basis of response the interview schedule was finalized after introducing some modification in interview schedule to make it more relevant and understandable. The data was present in tabulated form with the percentage was used for data representation and SPSS was used for data analysis.
Author Keywords: Female less Participation, Female Education problems, Layyah.
Naseer Ahmad1, Ghulam Abbas2, and Hassan Ghaffoor3
1 Department of Sociology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Bahadur sub Campus Layyah, Pakistan
2 Department of Sociology B.Z.U Bahadur sub Campus Layyah, Pakistan
3 Department of Sociology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Bahadur sub Campus Layyah, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
For the development of any country the education is necessary. Education is the right of both genders male and female. In the different rural areas of Pakistan it is a red signal that people deprived their female from education. Layyah is the backward district of Punjab where the literacy rate is comfortable as compare to as a whole but in the rural areas of this district the female participation is very low. This research was conducted in the three union councils of district Layyah. This is quantitative research because it was an exploratory study. These UCs were selected through systematic random sampling. A sample size of 150 respondents was selected through systematic random sampling. District Layyah was selected as the universe for the present research. Another reason for selecting this city was the easily accessibility of collecting data from rural area. Parents of girls who were illiterate were selected as respondent for the present research. Interview schedule was used as the tool for data collection. The reason was that the mostly people showed non serious behavior towards questionnaire and majority of respondents were illiterate. Before the collection of actual data, it was required to test the accuracy the work ability of information .For this purpose the interview schedule was pre-test to 10 respondents on the basis of response the interview schedule was finalized after introducing some modification in interview schedule to make it more relevant and understandable. The data was present in tabulated form with the percentage was used for data representation and SPSS was used for data analysis.
Author Keywords: Female less Participation, Female Education problems, Layyah.
How to Cite this Article
Naseer Ahmad, Ghulam Abbas, and Hassan Ghaffoor, “AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON LESS PARTICIPATION OF FEMALE IN EDUCATION IN RURAL AREAS OF DISTRICT LAYYAH, PAKISTAN,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1313–1322, November 2014.
