Determinants of Girl - Child Enrollment in Some Selected Female Secondary Schools in Sokoto Metropolis

ABSTRACT
Enhancing girl-child enrolment in female secondary school is majorly based on socio-economic, socio-cultural, educational background of the parent, religious factors. The study purposed to establish the extent to which the determinants of girl-child enrolment in female secondary school affect Sokoto metropolis. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. Literature reviewed was discussed in the light of the variables affecting girl-child enrolment in female secondary school. The target population of the study was 200 girl-child from the selected secondary school in the metropolis. The sampling was used to get from the four schools with 50 student each from selected randomly for the study.Descriptive statistics involving item frequencies and percentage were used to answer the research questions and mean, standard difference, sig. (2-tailed) and 95% confidence interval of the difference was used to test all the four null hypotheses with the reliability coefficient of 0.71 which is high enough for the study.Significant relationships were found between the dependent variable and each of the four independent variables. It was recommended that government should keep updated records of enrolment of the girl-child in all schools, and schools should be built in all localities for easy access, government should enact laws against removal of girl-child from schools for marriage or any reason before completion of school and parents should consider their economic capability in planning their family size.                  
Finally, religious leaders, the society at large and traditional leaders have big responsibility of directing and encouraging their subjects on the importance of girl-child enrolment into schools to turn around these vices, send girls to school so as to be educated, certificated, be skilful and have sources of income for sustainability and development.