(ANALYSIS
BASED ON MULTIPLE RESPONSE ).
Case Summary
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Cases
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Valid
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Missing
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Total
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N
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Percent
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N
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N
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Percent
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N
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Percent
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&Q7
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1253
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99.8%
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2
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.2%
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1255
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100.0%
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Table A.
Other
jobs women do
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Responses
Percentage
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Percent
of cases
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Farming
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1197
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27.6%
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95.5%
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Trading
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1200
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27.6%
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95.8%
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Animal
domestication
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1131
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26.1%
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90.3%
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Tailoring
Total
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813
4341
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18.7%
100%
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64.9%
346%
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Dichotomy group tabulation at value
1 Field survey
2011
Table
5 above which has a and b showing the case summary of respondents in table ‘A’
and the frequencies in table ‘B’ shows the multiple responses from the
respondents who are the quarry miners (males and females) from the three
senatorial zones on some other works women do in communities studied outside
their participation in stone pit mining.
In
table a, which is the case summary, it is evident that out of the total number
of respondents of one thousand two hundred and fifty- five (1,255), one
thousand two hundred and fifty-three were correctly entered, while two
(2) respondents columns were not entered.
On
the follow up table it shows the frequencies on other jobs women get involved
in the communities outside quarry mining. The responses here were based on
multiple choice where the respondents had a choice of ticking more than one
option. The variable options in the question number seven (7) were, farming, trading, animal domestication,
tailoring and other activities that were not mentioned.
So
from table 5b , the total responses gotten from the multiple choice question is
four thousand three hundred and forty –one (4,341), out of this total multiple
responses, one thousand, one hundred and ninety-seven (1197) reported that
women equally get involved in farming, showing a response percentage of 27.6%.
The respondents on the response on the second variable which is trading
indicated one thousand, two hundred (1200) with a response percentage of 27.6% of the
total responses. On animal domestication which is the third option, one
thousand, one hundred and thirty one or 26.1% of the total response range indicated
that women in the communities could also domesticate animals.
Eight
hundred and thirteen responses indicated that women get involved in tailoring outside quarry mining. So the
question was to actually find out whether there are other job options for women
in the rural communities. And the indication from the responses gotten show
that there are other jobs the women get involved in doing, which under
anticipation allowed the space for the 8 item on the questionnaire on why women
in the areas studied should be involved
in quarry mining if there are other job options.
Then question 8 was a follow up, which
qualitatively sought to determine whether there are other alternative jobs in
the communities for the rural women and if there are, why do they still work in
the quarry mines. Question number seven
(7) indicated that there are other job alternatives like; farming, trading,
animal domestication and tailoring. But these women still get involved in
quarry mining to make up enough money to support those other job alternatives
in the communities.
As
the item 8 on the questionnaire is an open-ended question, majority of the
respondents reported that the other job options in the area still will be
financed with money, and most of these women are poor that they need money to
get involved in them.
This
question also came up in the in-depth interview for women and men quarry miners. Question 3 in the in-depth interview probed for why women work in the quarry mines. This question
probed for whether women have interest ordinarily to work in the quarry
mine or they work there due to lack of
other work options. The interview identified that these women who are mostly indigenes of the studied local
government areas in the three senatorial zones are involved in small –scale
quarry mining due to the following reasons:
(1) There are
few other job options: The respondents reported that in the rural areas there
are few other job options these women could get involved in doing. In the
questionnaire item no seven (7), the question sought to know other means women
in that area generate income. The listed options were; farming, trading, animal
domestication and tailoring. In that multiple responses 4341 responses were
recorded of which 1253 out of 1255 respondents indicated various optional job
alternatives. Here 1197 went for farming, 1200 for trading, 1131 for animal
domestication and tailoring was 813. This shows that women have other things
they could engage in doing. But the case here was that you need money to start
almost the whole job options of which most of these women are economically at
the bottom that they cannot afford the
things to function in these areas. So left with this tight situation, they work
for means to raise money which now bring in quarry work as the only option in
the community.
(2) The second
case mentioned was poverty: Although this has been severally identified as the
major case of these rural women. This case was identified by the world bank
(2004); Hogger (2004); and Heemskerk (2005) in that these rural women are
already marginalized, as they face poverty and hardship, as wall as extreme
poor environmental condition that offers little alternative resources for
subsistence. In trying to survive in marginalized environment, they engage in
quarry mining to raise money for themselves and family members. In some of
these families, women are the bread winners even when the men are still alive.
(3) Lack of education (formal): the
other issue raised by these miners interviewed is on lack of the miners formal
education. These women were identified as not acquiring the necessary skills to
engage in other activities.
They
reported that these women need money to farm (buy equipment and seedlings), to
trade, animal domestication and tailoring. In effect most of these rural women are poor
that they work in these quarry mine pits to see if they can raise the money
needed to start other jobs that could sustain them. In this case they end up
participating in quarry mining activities as if is almost the wage earning job
activity in the rural areas.