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Comparison Of Female And Male Youth Characteristics Prior To Entrepreneurial Development: Evidence From Uganda

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  • FREDDIE FESTO MAWANGA

    (Makerere University Business School, PO Box 1337, Kampala, Uganda)

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All pre-entrepreneurial development training programs collect data on the participating individuals as baseline data. This paper’s research question is whether the baseline data of youths can be analyzed to establish comparative gender characteristics. The analysis, data compared gender characteristics to identify customized gender training programs and policies; and as a mechanism for monitoring these characteristics as individuals develop into entrepreneurs. Data from youths being trained after an insurgency in a developing country were used and analysis was conducted with the help of SPSS ver. 21. Findings were that male youths were significantly more interested than female youth in the training. Significant correlations of assosiated chararctertisitcs among the youths were found to be similar across gender, although some were gender related. ANOVA revealed a significant difference in education, meals eaten per day and savings with varying levels of effect among male and female youths, with male youths scoring higher than the females. Education mediated monthly income and savings among female youths; however, among male youth its mediation was on the number of dependents they had. Finally, a binary logit regression showed that both genders were predictable using their education, quality of house they reside in, number of dependents and amount of savings but with varying direction of likelihood and extent. Implications of the study are discussed in the paper.

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  • Freddie Festo Mawanga, 2017. "Comparison Of Female And Male Youth Characteristics Prior To Entrepreneurial Development: Evidence From Uganda," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 22(01), pages 1-15, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jdexxx:v:22:y:2017:i:01:n:s1084946717500042
    DOI: 10.1142/S1084946717500042
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