ATTITUDE OF EDUCATED PERSONS’ TOWARDS CHILD LABOUR

Abstract

Child labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interference with their ability to attend regular school and is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. So the present study is carried out to investigate the attitude of educated persons’ towards child labour. The size of the sample was eighty educated persons and was collected through random sampling. The sample consisted of 40 males and 40 females of Bhadrak district, out of which 45 were from urban and 35 from rural. A category of self- employed and govt. employed educated persons of 43 and 37 respectively were selected. The researcher adopted descriptive survey method and used self-made questionnaire tool. The Self-made questionnaire was a 5 point ATR scale as strongly agree, agree, cannot say, disagree and strongly disagree consisting of 40 items. The collected data was analyzed through mean, SD and t-ratio. From the above study it was found that there is no significance of difference between male and female educated persons towards child labour, which is a major concern of today’s society.