Causes and Effects of Girl Child School Dropout in the Community of Budondo Sub-County, Jinja District.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION

APPROVAL

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

LIST OF ACRONYMNS

LIST OF TABLES ix

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE 1

INTRODUCTION i

1.1 Background to the Study 1

1.2 Statement of the Problem 2

1.3 Purpose of the Study 3

1.4 Objectives of the Study 3

1.5 Research Questions 3

1,6 Scope of the Study 3

1.6.1 Contextual scope 3

1.6.2 Geographical scope 3

1.6.3 Time scope 4

1.7 Significance of the Study 4

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW s

2.0 Introduction

2.1 Review of Related Literature

2.2 Causes of school dropouts

2.2.1 Parents Participation on student drop out in schools 5

2.2.2 Indiscipline cases and Students’ dropout in schools 7

2.3 Impact of school dropout 10

2.4 Effect of School Dropouts to the Community 10

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CHAPTER THREE .12

METHODOLOGY 12

3.0 Introduction 12

3.1 Research design 12

3.2 Area and population of the study 12

3.3 Sampling procedure 12

3.4 Sample size 12

3.5 Instruments data collection 13

3.5.1 Interviews 13

3.5.2 Questionnaires 13

3.6 Reliability and validity 14

3.7 Ethical Consideration 14

3.8 Data processing 14

3.8.1 Editing and spot checking 14

3.8.2 Coding 15

3.9 Data analysis 15

3.10 Limitations of the study 15

CHAPTER FOUR 17

DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 17

4.0 Chapter Review 17

4.1 Social Demographic Characteristics 17

4.1.1 Age of the respondents 17

4.1.2 Marital Status 17

4.1.3 Sex of the respondents 18

4.1.4 Educational status 18

4.2. Causes of girls’ school dropout in of the community of Budondo sub-county, jinja

district 19

4.3. The effects of girls’ school dropout in the community of Budondo sub-county in Jinja

district 20

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4.4. Solutions to girls’ school dropout in the community, of Budondo sub-county Jinja District

20

CHAPTER FIVE 21

DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 21

5.0 Introduction 21

5.1 Discussion of the Findings 21

5.2 Conclusions 26

5.3 Recommendations 27

5.4 Areas for further research 29

REFERENCES 30

APPENDICES 31

APPENDIX I: QUESTIONNAIRE TO MATURE RESPONDENTS 31

APPENDIX II: QUESTIONNAIRE TO STUDENTS 33

APPENDIX III: BUDGET 35