Rural Women and their Information Seeking Behavior
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2016
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Library Philosophy and Practice, paper
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This study is focused at exploring the information seeking behaviour of the women in rural areas. The study adopted a survey design. Four objectives were laid down for the study and a structured interview and questionnaire was used to bring out information from respondents. The findings showed that among the 294 respondents, 41% of them are 31-40 years of age, 24% of the respondents are below 30 years of age, 18% are between the ages of 41-50 years of age among
others. The study also revealed majority of the women have secondary school education with 44% of them admitting that they are secondary school certificate holder. The study shows that the information needs of rural women in the top rank are occupational related with 85% of respondents, child care and family relationship with 64% of respondents. The study clearly indicates that the major source of information for the respondents is friends and family members
with 95% of the respondents attesting to that, another 75% of the respondents indicated age groups as their source of information. The study revealed that the major use of information by respondents was to improve their Occupation with 91% of respondents, to care for children and run the family with 78% of respondents. It is clear from the study that no library resources is the major barrier to the access of information by respondents with 98%, illiteracy with 76% of
respondents, language barriers with 66% respondents, among others. Recommendations were put forward to enhance access to information by women in the rural areas.
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Ijiekhuamhen, O. P. and Omosekejimi, A. F. (2016) Rural Women and their Information Seeking Behavior; Library Philosophy and Practice, paper: 1396. pp 1 -12. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=aSk-jhsAAAAJ&citation_for_view=aSk-jhsAAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC