Open AccessA DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO IDENTIFY THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING HOUSEHOLD WASTE MANAGEMENT AMONG WOMEN RESIDING IN URBAN SLUMS OF KOLHAPUR IN VIEW TO DEVELOPAN INFORMATION BOOKLET.
Author(s) -
Leena T. Lokhande Miss.,
Sheetal Minin Kamble Mrs.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of scientific research
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.36106/ijsr/2900463
Subject(s) - slum , descriptive statistics , marital status , nonprobability sampling , socioeconomics , sample (material) , descriptive research , reuse , geography , data collection , business , environmental health , medicine , population , engineering , sociology , waste management , mathematics , social science , statistics , chemistry , chromatography
BACKGROUND: Wastes management is the collection processing and disposal or reuse of recyclable and no recyclable waste. The percent of waste that is deposited in landfills has decreased dramatically since the 1960s, when more than 90% of wastes was land filled. OBJECTIVES-To identify the knowledge scores regarding management of household waste level among the women. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Non Experimental descriptive study design with Quantitative descriptive survey approach.Non probability purposive sampling technique used to select sample of 60 women residingin urban slum of KasabaBawada ,Kolhapur. Data collection was done by using structured knowledge questionnaire tool. The selected socio demographic variables are age, education of the mother, occupation, type of family, marital status, religion, monthly income of the family.RESULTS: The result shows that knowledge of women residing in urban slums regarding household waste management indicates that the majority of women’s having 28 (46.67%) had average category and 19 (21.66%) women’s in poor category and only 13 (31.67%) women’s were in good category. The mean was 11.11, median was 11, mode was13, standard deviation was 3.23, and range was 13of knowledge scores of women’s residing in urban slums regarding household waste management. CONCLUSION: Overall findings of the shows that majority of the women 19 (21.66%) having poor knowledge, therefore it is necessary to provide adequate knowledge regarding household waste management.