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live near schools where they teach, it was difficult to get teachers. The population, therefore, does not feature as many teachers as the researchers would have liked. The areaspecific problem experienced in Nsanje and Chikwawa was the alarmingly high temperatures. These high temperatures induced fatigue in the researchers who were not used to hot climate conditions. The third problem had to do with the politics of the area in which the survey was conducted. Nsanje and Chikwawwa districts have all their parliamentary constitutients (except one) taken by the ruling UDF party. The single seat in the hands of the opposition belongs to the leader of the opposition, who also happens to be the President of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). In these two districts, there is political tension between the two rival parties. In some cases this tension does lead to violence. The research team was on more than one occasion mistakenly identified as an MCP group. The mistaken identity was due to the fact that the lowly educated local people could not tell the difference between the MCP flag and the GTZ/Malawi logo which was on all the vehicles the research team used. To the local people, the flags resembled the old Malawi Congress Party flag. As a result, it used to take the research team some time to educate the local UDF faithfuls about the research teams’ noninvlovemement in MCP or political issues as awhole. Such problems were met at Tengani and Marka. Due to the problems mentioned above, it was impossible to reach the target of interviewing 1000 respondents. Instead 817 subjects were interviewed. 6.4.6 SOME DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RESPONDENTS Areas of interest here are sex, age, and levels of education of the categories of the respondents. Of the 817 respondents, 289(35.4%) were parents/guardians; 16 (2.0%) were teachers; 409 (50.1%) were pupils, whilst 103 (12.6%) were in the ‘other’ category. The distribution of the respondents per district was as follows: 328 respondents (40.1%) for Chikwawa and 489 respondents (59.9%) for Nsanje. In terms of age, the age range 1519 years constituted the larget group with 222 respondents (27.2%); followed by the 1014 years age group with 190 respondents (23.3%). Table 80 captures the age statistics. 92
Table 80: Age Groups Age Group Frequency % 09 23 2.8 1014 190 23.3 1519 222 27.2 2024 91 11.1 2529 65 8.0 3034 57 7.0 3539 53 6.5 4044 32 3.9 4549 25 3.1 5054 11 1.3 5559 11 1.3 6064 8 1.0 6569 8 1.0 70 and above 6 0.7 Undocomented 15 1.8 The distribution of the respondents according to sex is as follows: the majority were males as indicated in Table 81. Table 81: Respondents’ Sex Frequeency % Male 499 61.1 Female 300 36.7 Undocumented 18 2.2 93
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4.5.1 TEACHER’S RESPONSES 23 4.5.
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A Note from the Director on Socioli
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1 INTRODUCTION The availability of
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instance, a mother tongue literacy
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level of understanding, whether the
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the survey that people from outside
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Above form 4 1 3 0.5 Other 3 0.3 Th
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REASONS GIVEN Easy communication Mo
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Chilomwe Chisena Chinkhonde English
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50. It has been observed that those
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Chichewa. This has arisen from the
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the most crucial informants because
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and pressing issues to handle e.g.
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Table 13: District Acceptance Of Ch
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The figures above clearly indicate
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Teachers were also requested to ind
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Rumphi 75.0 25.0 Mzimba 84.7 11.1 N
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Page 45 and 46: Rumphi 17.3 Pure Tumbuka 6.7 Henga
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Page 97 and 98: Tengani 11 2.7 Nsanje 35 8.6 Phodzo
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