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On the whole the mean values for all the factors show that there is not much difference
between the perceptions of the students with regard to gender as indicated by the table
4.7. The significance which is to be determined by T-test is as follows:
Table 4.8 (See Appendix 1)
T-test shows that at the 0.05 level of significance there exist gender differences in
perceptions with regard Average of Barriers. The difference in average of barriers is
significant at 0.002 and the mean value of male students for this factor is 3.3160 which is
less than the mean value of female students for the same factor i.e. 3.4167 and that
indicate that females are expected to be more affected by the barriers on the whole as for
as their entrepreneurial intention is concerned.The results for the differences in the
perception with regard to students having business experience or not are as follows:
Table 4.9 (See Appendix 1)
Table 4.9 presents the group statistics for the personal business experience. On the whole
the mean values show that students having no personal business experience seem to
consider support factors more favorable towards their entrepreneurial intentions in
comparison with the students who were having the personal business experience. Not
much variability of perceptions with regard to mean values was found for barriers.
Table 4.10 (See Appendix 1)
The T-test Table 4.10 for these group shows that the significant differences exist between
the group having some sort of personal business experience and group do not having such
experience with regard to average of support factors at the 0.05 level of significance. The
students do not have business experience seem to perceive higher effects of support
factors on their entrepreneurial intentions. The mean value for students do not have
personal business experience was 3.7531 for average of support factors while the mean
value is 3.4609 for the group having some sort of business experience that clearly
indicate the disparity of perceptions with in groups for support factors.The results for the
differences in the perception with regard to students having family with business
exposure or not are as follows:
Table 4.11 (See Appendix 1)
Table 4.11 provides the group statistics of family business exposure with regard to
average of support factors and barriers. These groups are constituted by 102 students in
group do not have business exposure and 210 students whose family have some sort of
business exposure. There is not much variability among these groups with regard to the
support factors or barriers although on the average students having families with some
business exposure seem to be have more effect with regard to the support factors and
barriers. The T-test to determine the significance is as follows:
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