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dc.contributor.authorNyasa, Janise
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-21T10:03:51Z
dc.date.available2021-06-21T10:03:51Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.identifier.citationNyasa, J. (2021). Relationship between women’s socioeconomic status and empowerment in Uganda. Unpublished undergraduate dissertation. Makerere University, Kampala.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/10832
dc.descriptionA dissertation report submitted to the College of Business and Management Sciences, School of Statistics and Planning in partial fulfillment for the requirement of the award of Bachelor of Science in Business Statistics of Makerere Universityen_US
dc.description.abstractThe above study is about the relationship between women's socioeconomic status and empowerment in Uganda. Women empowerment and achieving gender equality are essential for our society to ensure the sustainable development of a country as many scholars have argued that that sustainable development is impossible without gender equality and women's empowerment. Women empowerment is defined as promoting women's sense of self-worth, ability to determine their own choices and rights to influence social change for themselves and others. On the other hand, women's socioeconomic status can be described using different variables such as education, age, place of residence, health status, type of earning among others which will further be discussed in other chapters of this report. The research report mainly focuses on women's participation in household decision-making for both survey years that is 2011 and 2016. It also comprises of five chapters with chapter one about the introduction, background of study, problem statement, objectives, research questions, scope of study and the significance of study. Chapter two, the theoretical background. The researcher employed quantitative methods (secondary data) of analyzing the UDHS data sets the survey years. The data was analyzed using statistical packages such as STATA, excel and word application software. Conclusions and recommendations were made to strengthen and improve on the relationship between women's socioeconomic status and empowerment in Uganda. It was discovered that there is a positive relationship between women's socioeconomic status and empowerment in Uganda. Some of the recommendations include, public participation in the different programs set by the government, connection effort between the government and other institutions among others.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMakerere Universityen_US
dc.subjectWomen empowermenten_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.subjectGender equalityen_US
dc.subjectWomenen_US
dc.subjectEconomic empowermenten_US
dc.titleRelationship between women’s socioeconomic status and empowerment in Ugandaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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