Rural Girls' Attitudes toward Holding Small Enterprises and Their Relation to Some Variables in Some Villages in Alexandria and Behaira Governorates

This research aimed to study rural girls' attitudes toward holding small enterprises and their relation to some variables. The study was carried out through achieving the following sub-goals:
1-    Assess some personal and socio- economic characteristics of the respondents.
2-    To define the respondents attitudes toward holding small enterprises.
3-    To define the respondents, training needs in the field related to small enterprises.
4-    Identify the obstacles related to holding small enterprises.
5-    Study the related and affected relation between some independent variables and types of attitudes.
Data were collected by questionnaire through personal interviews with a random sample consisted of 200 rural girls from some villages in Alexandria and El-Behira Governorates. Alpha Chronbach factor, parson correlation, multiple regression models, frequencies and percentages were used in analyzing the data.
Data indicated the following:
1-    High positive attitudes towards holding small enterprises were observed among most of respondents.
2-    Most respondents want to be trained in some fields related to small enterprises.
3-    The most important obstacles of holding small enterprises given by respondents were: lack of production materials, family refused, afraid of not being capable to pay back the loan's lack of markets, difficulties to getting ID cards, lack of essential construction elements and the environmental pollution.
4-    There was positive significant relation between girl's education, urban-cultural openness, and aspiration problems industries practice level, kind of the desired job, family living standard and level of respondents' attitudes towards holding small enterprises.
5-    According to Step-Wise multiple regression analysis kind of the desired job, aspiration level, industries practice rate and innovativeness together explained about 54.5% of variances in the level of respondents' attitudes.