DISSERTATION WORK MSAFIRI KABULWA.pdf
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8. RESULTS<br />
A total of 1084 questionnaires were distributed to form 1-3 students from randomly sampled<br />
schools. The students filled in the questionnaires in a classroom in the presence of the<br />
researcher. One thousand sixty seven students handed in the filled questionnaire to the<br />
researcher. This constituted a response rate of 98.4%. The study participants were aged 13-26<br />
years old with the mean age of 16 years.<br />
Table1: Percent distribution of 1067 secondary school students by location of the school,<br />
sex, type of school and year of study<br />
Sex Type of school Year of study<br />
Location of school Boys Girls Public Private Form 1 Form 2 Form 3<br />
- City centre (n=361) 52.6 47.4 69.0 31.0 33.5 36.6 29.9<br />
- Outskirt (n=706) 48.4 51.6 73.2 26.8 34.7 30.6 34.7<br />
- Total (n=1067) 49.9 50.1 71.8 28.2 34.3 32.6 33.1<br />
χ² 1.677 2.135 4.362<br />
p-value 0.197 0.151 0.113<br />
The percent distribution of 1067 secondary school students who participated in the study by<br />
location of their schools, sex, type of school and their year of study is presented in Table 1. The<br />
distribution was similar with no statistically significance differences between all variables<br />
studied: χ² values ranging from 1.677- 4.362 with p-value of 0.113 to 0.197.