Economic Factors and Availability of Educational Infrastructure as Determinants of Girl-child Education in Oyo Township
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2025-12
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Lead City University Ibadan
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Despite growing recognition of the importance of girl-child education in Nigeria, many girls continue to face significant barriers that limit their access to and retention in school. Most of the existing studies tend to examine these factors in isolation with limited attention to how the intersection of economic hardship and infrastructural inadequacies uniquely affects girl child education. Hence, this study investigated economic factors and availability of infrastructure as determinants of girl-child education in Oyo Township. This study adopted a descriptive survey research design. A self-developed questionnaire titled: “Economic Factors, Availability of Educational Infrastructure, and Girl-child Education Questionnaire (EFAEIGEQ) (r = 0.79) was used to collect data. The findings showed that the level of girl child education is very high (x̄ = 3.22). The level of economic factors influencing girl-child education is very high (x̄ = 3.09); the level of availability of educational infrastructure is very high (x̄ = 3.10). There was a significant joint contribution of economic factors and availability of educational infrastructure on girl-child education (R = .629, R2 = .396). The composite contribution was (F-ratio of 105.799); parental occupation (β = .098, p<.05), cost of education (β = .165, p<.05), poverty rate (β = .183, p<.05), number of schools & distribution (β = .003, p>.05), quality of school infrastructure (β = .153, p<.05), and availability of qualified teachers (β = .210, p<.05) respectively. There was a statistical significant relationship between religion and girl-child education (r= .390, n=976, p(.001)<.05). This study concluded that girl-child education is influenced by a combination of socio-economic conditions, educational resources, and religious values. It was recommended that policies should be strengthened to reduce the financial burden of schooling on parents; and awareness programmes should also emphasise that girls education is as valuable as that of boys, challenging cultural practices that deprioritise girls schooling.
Keywords: Economic factors, Availability of infrastructure, Girl-child, Girl-child education
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Economic factors, Availability of infrastructure, Girl-child, Girl-child education
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Kate Turabian