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The Most Influential Factors on Youth Female Unemployment Incidences in a Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Perera, K.B.P.
dc.contributor.author Kularatne, M.G.
dc.contributor.author Wehigaldeniya, W.G.D.S.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-16T07:24:47Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-16T07:24:47Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.citation Perera, K.B.P., Kularatne, M.G. and Wehigaldeniya, W.G.D.S. (2018). The Most Influential Factors on Youth Female Unemployment Incidences in a Sri Lanka.4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p107 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/19543
dc.description.abstract Unemployment is one of the key measures of economic health. The unemployment rate indicates the degree of usage of productive resources available in an economy. Everyone would be employed at some wage to maximize the efficiency of an economy. The Purpose of this study is to identify the most influential factors behind the high rate of youth female unemployment incidences in Sri Lanka. The secondary data, concepts and definitions used in annual report of Labour Force Survey (LFS) in 2015which has conducted by Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) is used for this study. The data analysed most influential factor of the youth female unemployment incidences in Sri Lanka based on the analysis of Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s Chi Square test and independent sample T-test.The research revealed that independent variables such as Sector, Province, Ethnicity, Religion, Marital status, Family size, Number of dependents, Relation to the household head, Monthly income level, Educational level, Literacy in English/Tamil and Completion of training relevant to occupation or selfemployment are influential factors of the Youth female unemployment incidences of Sri Lanka. However, among those factors Monthly family income is the most influential factor. Other than the Monthly family income Province, Level of education and Completion of relevant training program are also more influential factors rather than other categorical variables. In addition to categorical variables, Family size and Number of dependents also more influential factors on Youth female unemployment en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher 4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject youth female unemployment en_US
dc.subject monthly family income en_US
dc.title The Most Influential Factors on Youth Female Unemployment Incidences in a Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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