NAME: Teika Scott CANDIDATE NUMBER:TEACHER: MS. Brown SCHOOL: William knibb memorial High SchoolCENTRE NUMBER:TITLE: An investigation on the causes, negative effects and solutions of unemployment in the . District of Granville, Trelawny

1. Module in social studies with SBA guide & cxc questions ( Rampersad Ramsawak & Ralph R. Umraw

2. Social Studies essentails with SBA, Study Guide & Exercise ( Mervyn C.Sandy & Stephenson C.Grayson

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment

PagesAcknowledgement……………………………………………………………….1

Introduction……………………………………………………………………...2

Statement of Problem……………………………………………………………3

Research Question………………………………………………………………4

Reason for Selecting the area of Research……….……………………………..5

Method of Investigation …………………………………………………………6

Questionnaires…………………………………………………………………7-8

Data Collections Instrument…………………………………………………..9

Procedures of Data Collection…………………………………………………...10

Presentation of Data…………………………………………………………….11-16

Analysis and Interpretation Data…………………………………………………17-18

Statement of Finding……………………………………………………………..19

Recommendation and Implementation Strategy…………………………………20

Bibliography……………………………………………………………………...21

In doing my S.B.A it took a lot of hard work and time. First I must thank god for giving me life

and strength. Secondly I must thank my friends who help me with this S.B.A. finally I must

thank my parents for support and providing the tools that I needed to complete this S.B.A. thank

you all for you help.

Granville is a medium size community found in the parish of Trelawny, Jamaica.

This little community is approximately one (2.5) mile away from Falmouth which is the capital

of Trelawny. In the community of Granville unemployment is common among the youths. The

researcher is very zealous in the topic because she wants to discover why there are so many

unemployed youths in the community of Granville. Granville is separate into two sections, new

heavens height is the residential area and then they have the ghetto section which is where most

young adult reside. Granville is not a business base community so jobs are barely available in the

community.

The community consists of primary school and basic school also a Place of Safety for girls but

they do not really take on Granville citizens for a job. The community consists of plenty small

farmers they mostly only do sustainable farming, only for their household and sometimes offer to

community for small price. Granville is a small society close to the capital of Trelawny so

business firm prefers to go in the capital instead of small local areas.

Length of unemployed

The table above show how long the citizens of Granville were employed. 15% of the population

of Granville were unemployed under a year. while 15% of the citizen have been unemployed for

2-4 year. 70% of the populations are unemployed for 5 and more years.

1 year 15%

2-4 year 15%

5 year and more 70%

Reason for unemployment

10%

80%

5%5%

Reason for unemployment

do not want to worklack of jobslack of experience lack of education

the bar graph above showing the reason why citizen of Granville is unemployed 10% of the

population is employed because they don’t want to work. 80% is unemployed because of lack of

jobs while 5% is unemployed because of lack of experience and another 5% is unemployed

because of lack of education

80

20

PIE CHART SHOWING PEOPLE WHO WOULD MIGRATE ABOARD FOR JOB OPPORTUNITY

YESNO

The pie chart above shows that 80% of the country population stated that they would leave the

country if they got an overseas job. While the remaining 20% stated that they won’t leave the

country if they got an overseas job.

COVER LETTERGranville ,

Carrick Foyle P.A,Trelawny

4th August 2013

Dear Respondents, My name is Teika Scott. I am a student at the William knibb

memorial high school. The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Social Studies syllabus

requires that students complete a School Based Assessment (S.B.A). The topic for my S.B.A is:

‘What are the effects of unemployment youth in my community of Granville?” I am asking for

your assistance towards the completion of my S.B.A. Please complete the following

questionnaire. You are advised to answer the following question honestly and truthfully. I am

looking forward for your kind cooperation.

Thanking you.

Yours sincerely,

________________

Teika Scott

What are the impacts of unemployment on young adults in the community of Granville whether

negatively or positively?

The reason this topic was selected is because most youths in Granville are

unemployed and the senior of the community is speaking of this situation

frequently. Many of youths are on the block and getting into trouble, such as

fighting and smoking or coerced to be a delinquent. This is situation only not

occurred in the Granville because it’s a global phenomenon and most young adults

are force into doing stuff they don’t want to do. Another reason why the researcher

is researching on this topic is because she wants to help the unemployed youths of

the community to get a job and thus, would like to know the causes, the negative

effect and receive some possible solutions that could help solve the problem.

The method of investigation used for this project was in the form of a questionnaire. The

questionnaire was use because a lot of information can be collected in a short period of time, it

also facilitate easy data analysis, through the use of structured questions. In order to carry out

this research on the impact of unemployment individuals living in the community of Granville,

the researcher had to made use of primary and secondary sources of data collection. The primary

data collection source used was a questionnaire while the secondary sources of data collection

include texts and the internet.

A questionnaire is a research instrument that can be applied to fact finding technique in

systems development projects. It consist of a series of questions, the questionnaire used by the

researcher includes both open and close ended questions. A total of fifteen (15) questions were

asked in the questionnaire.

INSTRUCTIONS: Read each of the following questions, and Tick in the boxes to select your answer

Gender:   Male Female

Age: 18-30 30 and over

1. What level of education you have obtained? Primary

  Secondary  Tertiary

2. How many subjects have you obtained? 1-2 3-4 5-6 Over 6

3. How long had you ever worked before? 1-2 months   3-4 months   5-6 months 7-9months

4. How long have you been without a job?  1 year and under  2 - 4 years  5 years and more

5. Which of the following reasons mainly contributes to you being unemployed? Lack of education Lack of experience Lack of job

Awaiting results from exams Do not want to work

6. Does your unemployment causes conflict in the home?

Yes   No  

7. What do you do in your spare time? Hang out on the block with friends  play sports   Stay at home

8. How do you meet your basic needs?  Family and loved ones  Illegal activities  Friends

9. How are you affected without a job?__________________________________

10. Have you ever been arrested for unlawful offence? If yes whyYes   No  

11. Does your unemployment causes conflict in the home?Yes   No  

12. Which country you would migrate if you get a job opportunity overseas?

Canada ( ) U.S.A ( )

England ( )

13. Who would you blame for Unemployment in the country? Government ( ) Private Section ( ) Education Institution ( )

14. How do you believe the problem of unemployment could be solved? Unemployed citizens migrating to the United States Work programs in Canada Encourage local international investment All of the above None of the above

15. What would you suggest to the government to help decrease unemployment in your society? __________________________________

In order To get information for this project the researcher will construct a questionnaire which

consists of 15 items which will distributed to twenty five youths in Granville. The researcher

wants to get all the opinions of the community of Granville so the sampling was done on

anybody who got selected in the process but the ages of population will be strictly 16 above due

to their understandings and experience. The sample will be selected using the simple random

sampling by placing the names of sixty names of youths in my community in a bag. The bag will

then shake and the first twenty five names selected will give a questionnaire to complete. After

distributed the researcher will analyze them all of them returned and answered.

Data is presented in my project by using a pie chart, a histogram and a bar graph.

figure 1: Levels of education Achieved

25%

40%

35%

A pic chart showing the levels of education achieved by youths in Granville.

PrimarySecondaryTertiary

Figurer one is a pie chart showing the response of the person as to the levels of education they

achieved. From the three levels of education it was seen that majority of the respondents

obtained a secondary education follow by tertiary education and the minority attained a primary

education. This pie chart also shows that 25% of the person who are unemployed achieve a

primary level of education. While 40% achieve secondary level of education and only 35%

receive tertiary level of education.

Question 6: Ways in which the unemployed meet their needs

60%20%

20%

Ways in which the unemployed meet their basic needs

provided by family and love ones engage in illegal activitiesprovided by friends

Figurer three is a pie chart illustrating how the basic needs of youths in Granville are met due to

their unemployment. It was noticed that a great majority of person meet their basic needs family

and loved ones, sixty percent to them to be precise. Twenty percent of person continue to exist

by means of their friends and a reduced amount of twenty percent survive by doing illegal

activates and ten percent were others.

From this collection of data it can be said that most of the respondents chosen by using the

simple random sampling method where youths between the age group of 16 and above.

The first on the figure asked the respondents what level of education they have obtained. A vast

number of the participants attained a secondary education forty five percent, following by a

primary education thirty five percent and the minority attaining a tertiary education twenty five

percent. From the information mentioned above it can be said that majority of the youths in

Granville are not well educated and according to recent news articles you have to be qualify to in

certain areas to get a drop.

The second figure asked the respondents how many subjects they have obtained. A great

majority of the participants did not obtained a subject according to thirty five percent. Thirty

percent gained under five subjects without mathematics and English. Fifteen percent gained five

subjects including mathematics and English. Ten percent gained five subject including

mathematics alone. From this it can be said that most youths are unemployed mainly because

they do not have the educational qualifications or in other words they tack they compulsory

subjects.

Figure three asked the respondents have they ever worked before. The answers of yes and no is

18:7. From this analysis it can be proved that the youths of Granville had word before.

Of the 25 percent chosen by the sampling method 18 of them have had working experience

prior to the collection of the questionnaires. The remaining 7 persons have never had any

working experience or held any jobs.

Figure 4 question asked the respondents if they feel the government or private sector is doing

enough to fight the Unemployment issue. The ratio yes and no is 14:11, from this analysis it can

be said that government is trying its best to address the unemployment problem.

In analyzing question fourteen, seventy six percent of the respondents stated that they would

like migrate in search of job opportunities. While the remaining twenty four percent answered no

to this question. It can be noted here that the jobs that would appeal to them rather than the low

paid salaries they currently work for and those unemployed would have the opportunity to get a

job.

The researcher found that:

1. Most of the youths were employed but due to the situations of job upgrades where

workers need subjects or skill to be employed so most of them got fired then being

unemployed. 70% of young adults are unemployment while 30% are working.

Consequence is that the youths won’t be able to maintain their selves and this can also

lead to crime. Solution The government can build an institution for person that did not

get an proper education in school by going about in the community to find out the

person that did not get an proper education in school and take them to the institution

and let them get an proper education to become successful in life if they are interesting.

2. Unemployment is mostly common among persons between the ages of 18-

30 years because of the poverty. 80% says that unemployment is common

among the persons of 18-30 while the remaining 20% say otherwise

Consequence persons will find other ways of survival which is crime and

will lead to death of most of the young youths. Solution the government can

employ them by providing small jobs for the person unemployed. They can

offer small jobs like farm worker to plant yam, bananas and other thing.

They can also work at an construction area to build building, housing

scheme and they can hired them as a genitor at their home

Unemployment is mostly caused by lack of education. 90% says that

unemployment is cause by lack of education while the remaining 10% say

otherwise. Consequence lack of education can hurt you a lot it life. Without

getting a proper education you won’t get an job to provide for your family.

Solution help the younger generation growing up to get a good education to get

an job to provide for their family.

PROBLEM

Unemployment is mostly common among persons between the ages of 18- over 30 years because of the poverty

STRATEGY

3. The government can build an institution for person that did not get an

proper education in school. They can implement this suggestion by going

about in the community to find out the person that did not get an proper

education in school and take them to the institution and let them get an

proper education to become successful in life if they are interesting.

4. The government can also help the employments by providing small jobs for

the person unemployed. They can offer small jobs like farm worker to plant

yam, bananas and other thing. They can also work at an construction area

to build building, housing scheme and they can hired them as a genitor at

their home

1. What are the causes of unemployment?

2. What are the negative effects of unemployment on the youths of Granville?

3. What are the possible solutions of unemployment?