A Study of Socio-Cultural Factors as Determinant of Street Hawking and its Effects on Oyo Township Children of Oyo State, Nigeria
Oyewale, Aderemi Oyetunde
Department of Social Studies
Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo
Email: tunsoyee@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This paper investigates the problem of street hawking among the Nigerian children. The major markets in the four local government areas in Oyo (i.e Atiba, Afijio, Oyo West, and Oyo East) were purposely sampled and the respondents who participated in the study were conveniently sampled in the study areas. Questionnaire was the data collection instrument used by the researcher to investigate the factors determining child street hawking and its effect on children. Simple percentages and chi-square were the methods of data analysis employed in this study. The study showed that the awareness level of the affected children on the dangers inherent in street hawking was low. The investigation of the study revealed that parents’ level of education, parents’ occupation as well as family size were significantly related to the problem of Child Street hawking in the study area. The study recommends that serious efforts should be intensified on enlightenment programmes on the problem inherent in child street hawking, genuine commitment on policy formulation against child hawking, free and compulsory education and creation of job opportunities to the parents to take care of their children by the government. Parents should also accept and rely on family planning methods in the determination of family size.
Keywords: Child Street hawking, Socio-Cultural factors, Effect, Nigerian Child.
