Chapter 4 Data Analysis & Interpretation: Objectives of The Study
Chapter 4 Data Analysis & Interpretation: Objectives of The Study
Chapter 4 Data Analysis & Interpretation: Objectives of The Study
mere perusal. In order to answer meaningfully the research questions, the data must be
manipulating and summarizing the data to obtain answer to research questions. The
purpose of analysis is to reduce the data to an intelligible and interpretable from so that
variables.
ORGANIZATION OF THE FINDINGS
The data were organized and presented under the following section:
Section E- Association between demographic variables and post test knowledge score.
SECTION A
FREQUENCY AND PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIC
VARIABLES
Age
50.00%
46.70%
45.00%
40.00%
35.00%
28.30%
30.00%
25% 31-40years
25.00%
21-30 years
20.00% Below 20 years
15.00%
10.00%
5.00%
The above graph (Fig 3) depicts information of mothers according to their age. The graph
reveals nearly 17( 28.3%)% of the samples were in the age group of below 20 years , 28(46.7%)
were the age group of 21-30years and 15(25%) were in the age group 31-40 years.
Fig 4: Distribution of mothers according to their religion
Religionnnnn
0%
10%
23% Hindu
Muslim Christian
67%
The above graph(Fig 4) depicts information of mothers according to their religion .The graph
reveals 40 (66.7% ) of the samples were Hindus , 6 (10 % ) of the samples were Christians and 14
25%
20% Primary
Secondary Graduate Others
15%
10%
6.70%
5%
0%
Primary Secondary Graduate Others
educational status. The graph reveals that 18( 30%) of the samples were of
FIGURE 06 = OCCUPATION
18
16
14
12
10
8 16
6
10 9
4
0
2
0
Private Government Semi Government Self employed
Frequency distribution of mothers according to their occupation. It has been observed from the
sample that nearly 10(16.7%) mother‟s were of private occupation , 9(15%) were of government
occupation , 16(26.7%) were having semi government occupation , and none of them were self
employed.
Figure 7 = Distribution of mothers according to their Monthly income
30
25
20
15
10
16
5 0
0 0.27
< Rs.3,000 35 58.30%
17%
Nuclear
Joint Family
83%
The above graph (Fig 6) depicts information of mothers according to their type family. It has
been observed that 50 (83.30%) were nuclear family and 10 (16.7%) were joint family.