Participation of Farmers Wives’ In Taking Some Family Decisions in Abis 4 Area, Beheira Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Extension Education - College of Agriculture - University of Alexandria

Abstract

The current research is mainly aiming to study the Farmers Wives’ Participation in Taking Some Decisions in Abis 4 Village, Beheira Governorate, This will be achieved through the following objectives:

Studying some researched farmers wives’ characteristics.
Identifying farmers wives’ participation in taking some family decisions.
Studying the relationships between the researched farmers wives’ characteristics and their participation in taking some family decisions as dependent variable.

Data were collected through filling a questionnaire through personal interview for a random sample of 137 farmers’ wives, Researcher used a number of statistical methods including percentages, means, frequencies, standard deviation, simple correlation.
The most important results were summarized as follows:

The results showed that (34.3%) of the researched farmers’ wives hadhigh participation in taking some family decisions, (29.2%) hadmediumParticipation, and (36.5%) of them had low participation in taking some family decisions.
The results showed that (8) independent variable were significantly correlated with participation in taking some family decisions as dependent variable.

 

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