Determinants of Sinai women benefiting from the activities of women's associations in South Sinai Governorate

Abstract

The herein research aims to examine the correlation relationships between some of the female respondents' personal variables and the level of their benefit from the activities of women's associations. We determined the relative contribution of the independent variables to explain the total variation in the degrees of benefit of the respondents from the activities of women's associations. This study was conducted in South Sinai Governorate (including Tor Sinai, Saint Catherine, and Ras Sidr). We evaluated a sample of 377 respondents from women benefiting from the activities of women’s associations that were determined according to Morgan’s formula to determine the sample size. The data were collected through the researcher's personal interview with respondents using a questionnaire form, designed for this purpose during the month of September and October 2020. The researchers used data tables of numerical inventory, percentages, congruence coefficient (Ka2), simple correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis to classify and analyzing the collected data. The most important results were as the following: more than half of the respondents (56%) benefited moderately from the activities of women's associations. The existence of an inverse correlation relationship among the variables of age, monthly income, the number of family members of the respondents and the level of benefit from the programs and activities of the association. The calculated values of the simple correlation coefficient were -0.248, -0.422, and -0.346 that are greater than thier tabular counterpart. The studied variables contribute to explaining about 47.8% of the total variance among the respondents in terms of their benefit from the activities of the associations.