| dc.description.abstract | Over the years, education has been the backbone for the social, economic and political development of a nation. A grand total of 2,239 female respondents participated in this research study where 44.2% could not read and write meaningfully with understanding in any language as compared to 55.8% that could read and write with understanding in any language in West Nile, Uganda. Methodologically, the study adopted a cross sectional research design informed by the Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS). It was based on secondary data analysis of Uganda National Household Survey 2019/2020 database where a two stage stratified sampling design was used. The main objective of the survey was to collect high quality and timely data on socio, demographic and economic characteristics of the household population for monitoring economic performance of the country in accordance with international and national development frameworks (UNHS Report, 2019/2020). Findings from the study revealed that there was a positive significant relationship between household size, marital status, education level, wealth index, place of residence, distance to school, type of school attended, school attendance and female literacy since p-value was less than 0.05(P<0.05) .Contrary to what I suggested, occupation of the household head was deemed insignificantly related to female literacy in the West Nile region, Uganda since p>0.05. As recommendations, despite the government provision of free education through Universal Primary Education (UPE) and Universal Secondary Education (USE), there is still reluctance among parents to send the girl child to school. Therefore, the study suggests compulsory enrolment of girl children in schools at primary level and provision of a midday meal and reading-learning material since there was an already positive significant relationship established between variables enlisted in findings and female literacy. | en_US |
