Urbanisation-in-Namibia

Urbanisation in NamibiaTable 5: Percentage distribution of households by rating of whether urbanisation causes an increasein crimeRating Informal Semi-FormalNumber ofhouseholdsPercentNumber ofhouseholdsPercentStrongly disagree 1 .4 5 1.6Disagree 8 3.0 6 1.9Neutral 9 3.3 10 3.1Agree 89 33.1 94 29.2Strongly agree 160 59.5 204 63.4Not stated 2 .7 3 .9Total 269 100.0 322 100.0Social behaviour: The process of urbanisation exposes individuals to influences of westerncultural precepts. It has been reported that in most cases the sexual behavior of young peopleat home significantly differs from their sexual behavior away from home, because they areoutside the controls of family, friends and community (Indongo, 2008). From the resultspresented in Table 6 more than 70% of the respondents in both the informal and semi- formalareas agree that urbanisation influences the immoral behaviour.Table 6: Percentage distribution of households by rating of whether urbanisation influences theimmoral behavior of individualsRating Informal Semi-FormalNumber ofhouseholdsPercentNumber ofhouseholdsPercentStrongly disagree 4 1.5 4 1.2Disagree 31 11.5 17 5.3Neutral 39 14.5 56 17.4Agree 134 49.8 159 49.4Strongly agree 60 22.3 83 25.8Not stated 1 .4 3 .9Total 269 100.0 322 100.018