Social Studies Sba 2

NAME: Teika Scott CANDIDATE NUMBER: TEACHER: MS. Brown SCHOOL: William knibb memorial High School CENTRE NUMBER:

TITLE: An investigation on the causes, negative effects and solutions of unemployment in the . District of Granville, Trelawny

1. Module in social studies with SBA guide & cxc questions ( Rampersad Ramsawak & Ralph R. Umraw 2. Social Studies essentails with SBA, Study Guide & Exercise ( Mervyn C.Sandy & Stephenson C.Grayson

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment

Pages Acknowledgement……………………………………………………………….1 Introduction……………………………………………………………………...2 Statement of Problem……………………………………………………………3 Research Question………………………………………………………………4 Reason for Selecting the area of Research……….……………………………..5 Method of Investigation …………………………………………………………6 Questionnaires…………………………………………………………………7-8 Data Collections Instrument…………………………………………………..9 Procedures of Data Collection…………………………………………………...10 Presentation of Data…………………………………………………………….11-16 Analysis and Interpretation Data…………………………………………………17-18 Statement of Finding……………………………………………………………..19 Recommendation and Implementation Strategy…………………………………20 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………...21

In doing my S.B.A it took a lot of hard work and time. First I must thank god for giving me life and strength. Secondly I must thank my friends who help me with this S.B.A. finally I must thank my parents for support and providing the tools that I needed to complete this S.B.A. thank you all for you help.

Granville is a medium size community found in the parish of Trelawny, Jamaica. This little community is approximately one (2.5) mile away from Falmouth which is the capital of Trelawny. In the community of Granville unemployment is common among the youths. The researcher is very zealous in the topic because she wants to discover why there are so many unemployed youths in the community of Granville. Granville is separate into two sections, new heavens height is the residential area and then they have the ghetto section which is where most young adult reside. Granville is not a business base community so jobs are barely available in the community. The community consists of primary school and basic school also a Place of Safety for girls but they do not really take on Granville citizens for a job. The community consists of plenty small farmers they mostly only do sustainable farming, only for their household and sometimes offer to community for small price. Granville is a small society close to the capital of Trelawny so business firm prefers to go in the capital instead of small local areas.

Length of unemployed 1 year

15%

2-4 year

15%

5 year and more

70%

The table above show how long the citizens of Granville were employed. 15% of the population of Granville were unemployed under a year. while 15% of the citizen have been unemployed for 2-4 year. 70% of the populations are unemployed for 5 and more years.

Reason for unemployment

Reason for unemployment

5%

5%

10% do not want to work lack of jobs lack of experience lack of education

80%

the bar graph above showing the reason why citizen of Granville is unemployed 10% of the population is employed because they don’t want to work. 80% is unemployed because of lack of jobs while 5% is unemployed because of lack of experience and another 5% is unemployed because of lack of education

PIE CHART SHOWING PEOPLE WHO WOULD MIGRATE ABOARD FOR JOB OPPORTUNITY

20

YES NO 80

The pie chart above shows that 80% of the country population stated that they would leave the country if they got an overseas job. While the remaining 20% stated that they won’t leave the country if they got an overseas job.

COVER LETTER Granville , Carrick Foyle P.A, Trelawny 4th August 2013 Dear Respondents, My name is Teika Scott. I am a student at the William knibb memorial high school. The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Social Studies syllabus requires that students complete a School Based Assessment (S.B.A). The topic for my S.B.A is: ‘What are the effects of unemployment youth in my community of Granville?” I am asking for your assistance towards the completion of my S.B.A. Please complete the following questionnaire. You are advised to answer the following question honestly and truthfully. I am looking forward for your kind cooperation. Thanking you.

Yours sincerely, ________________ Teika Scott

What are the impacts of unemployment on young adults in the community of Granville whether negatively or positively?

The reason this topic was selected is because most youths in Granville are unemployed and the senior of the community is speaking of this situation frequently. Many of youths are on the block and getting into trouble, such as fighting and smoking or coerced to be a delinquent. This is situation only not occurred in the Granville because it’s a global phenomenon and most young adults are force into doing stuff they don’t want to do. Another reason why the researcher is researching on this topic is because she wants to help the unemployed youths of the community to get a job and thus, would like to know the causes, the negative effect and receive some possible solutions that could help solve the problem.

The method of investigation used for this project was in the form of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was use because a lot of information can be collected in a short period of time, it also facilitate easy data analysis, through the use of structured questions. In order to carry out this research on the impact of unemployment individuals living in the community of Granville, the researcher had to made use of primary and secondary sources of data collection. The primary data collection source used was a questionnaire while the secondary sources of data collection include texts and the internet. A questionnaire is a research instrument that can be applied to fact finding technique in systems development projects. It consist of a series of questions, the questionnaire used by the researcher includes both open and close ended questions. A total of fifteen (15) questions were asked in the questionnaire.

INSTRUCTIONS: Read each of the following questions, and Tick in the boxes to select your answer Gender:

 Male

 Female

Age:

18-30

 30 and over

1. What level of education you have obtained?  Primary  Secondary  Tertiary 2. How many subjects have you obtained?  1-2  3-4  5-6  Over 6 3. How long had you ever worked before?  1-2 months  3-4 months 

5-6 months

 7-9months

4. How long have you been without a job?  1 year and under  2 - 4 years  5 years and more 5. Which of the following reasons mainly contributes to you being unemployed?  Lack of education  Lack of experience  Lack of job  Awaiting results from exams  Do not want to work

6. Does your unemployment causes conflict in the home? Yes  No  7. What do you do in your spare time?  Hang out on the block with friends  play sports  Stay at home 8. How do you meet your basic needs?  Family and loved ones  Illegal activities  Friends 9. How are you affected without a job? __________________________________ 10. Have you ever been arrested for unlawful offence? If yes why Yes  No  11. Does your unemployment causes conflict in the home? Yes  No  12. Which country you would migrate if you get a job opportunity overseas? Canada ( )

U.S.A ( )

England ( ) 13. Who would you blame for Unemployment in the country? Government ( ) Private Section ( ) Education Institution ( ) 14. How do you believe the problem of unemployment could be solved?  Unemployed citizens migrating to the United States  Work programs in Canada  Encourage local international investment  All of the above  None of the above 15. What would you suggest to the government to help decrease unemployment in your society? __________________________________

In order To get information for this project the researcher will construct a questionnaire which consists of 15 items which will distributed to twenty five youths in Granville. The researcher wants to get all the opinions of the community of Granville so the sampling was done on anybody who got selected in the process but the ages of population will be strictly 16 above due to their understandings and experience. The sample will be selected using the simple random sampling by placing the names of sixty names of youths in my community in a bag. The bag will then shake and the first twenty five names selected will give a questionnaire to complete. After distributed the researcher will analyze them all of them returned and answered.

Data is presented in my project by using a pie chart, a histogram and a bar graph. figure 1: Levels of education Achieved

A pic chart showing the levels of education achieved by youths in Granville. 25% 35% Primary Secondary Tertiary

40%

Figurer one is a pie chart showing the response of the person as to the levels of education they achieved. From the three levels of education it was seen that majority of the respondents obtained a secondary education follow by tertiary education and the minority attained a primary education. This pie chart also shows that 25% of the person who are unemployed achieve a

primary level of education. While 40% achieve secondary level of education and only 35% receive tertiary level of education.

Question 6: Ways in which the unemployed meet their needs

Ways in which the unemployed meet their basic needs

provided by family and love ones

20%

engage in illegal activities provided by friends 20%

60%

Figurer three is a pie chart illustrating how the basic needs of youths in Granville are met due to their unemployment. It was noticed that a great majority of person meet their basic needs family and loved ones, sixty percent to them to be precise. Twenty percent of person continue to exist by means of their friends and a reduced amount of twenty percent survive by doing illegal activates and ten percent were others.

From this collection of data it can be said that most of the respondents chosen by using the simple random sampling method where youths between the age group of 16 and above. The first on the figure asked the respondents what level of education they have obtained. A vast number of the participants attained a secondary education forty five percent, following by a primary education thirty five percent and the minority attaining a tertiary education twenty five percent. From the information mentioned above it can be said that majority of the youths in Granville are not well educated and according to recent news articles you have to be qualify to in certain areas to get a drop. The second figure asked the respondents how many subjects they have obtained. A great majority of the participants did not obtained a subject according to thirty five percent. Thirty percent gained under five subjects without mathematics and English. Fifteen percent gained five subjects including mathematics and English. Ten percent gained five subject including mathematics alone. From this it can be said that most youths are unemployed mainly because they do not have the educational qualifications or in other words they tack they compulsory subjects.

Figure three asked the respondents have they ever worked before. The answers of yes and no is 18:7. From this analysis it can be proved that the youths of Granville had word before. Of the 25 percent chosen by the sampling method 18 of them have had working experience prior to the collection of the questionnaires. The remaining 7 persons have never had any working experience or held any jobs.

Figure 4 question asked the respondents if they feel the government or private sector is doing enough to fight the Unemployment issue. The ratio yes and no is 14:11, from this analysis it can be said that government is trying its best to address the unemployment problem. In analyzing question fourteen, seventy six percent of the respondents stated that they would like migrate in search of job opportunities. While the remaining twenty four percent answered no to this question. It can be noted here that the jobs that would appeal to them rather than the low paid salaries they currently work for and those unemployed would have the opportunity to get a job.

The researcher found that: 1. Most of the youths were employed but due to the situations of job upgrades where workers need subjects or skill to be employed so most of them got fired then being unemployed. 70% of young adults are unemployment while 30% are working. Consequence is that the youths won’t be able to maintain their selves and this can also lead to crime. Solution The government can build an institution for person that did not get an proper education in school by going about in the community to find out the person that did not get an proper education in school and take them to the institution and let them get an proper education to become successful in life if they are interesting.

2. Unemployment is mostly common among persons between the ages of 1830 years because of the poverty. 80% says that unemployment is common among the persons of 18-30 while the remaining 20% say otherwise Consequence persons will find other ways of survival which is crime and will lead to death of most of the young youths. Solution the government can

employ them by providing small jobs for the person unemployed. They can offer small jobs like farm worker to plant yam, bananas and other thing. They can also work at an construction area to build building, housing scheme and they can hired them as a genitor at their home

Unemployment is mostly caused by lack of education. 90% says that unemployment is cause by lack of education while the remaining 10% say otherwise. Consequence lack of education can hurt you a lot it life. Without getting a proper education you won’t get an job to provide for your family. Solution help the younger generation growing up to get a good education to get an job to provide for their family.

PROBLEM Unemployment is mostly common among persons between the ages of 18- over 30 years because of the poverty

STRATEGY 3. The government can build an institution for person that did not get an proper education in school. They can implement this suggestion by going about in the community to find out the person that did not get an proper education in school

and take them to the institution and let them get an proper education to become successful in life if they are interesting. 4. The government can also help the employments by providing small jobs for the person unemployed. They can offer small jobs like farm worker to plant yam, bananas and other thing. They can also work at an construction area to build building, housing scheme and they can hired them as a genitor at their home

1. What are the causes of unemployment? 2. What are the negative effects of unemployment on the youths of Granville? 3. What are the possible solutions of unemployment?