DETERMINANTS OF EMPLOYMENT STATUS OF WOMEN IN KONE GYI VILLAGE TRACT, HINTHADA TOWNSHIP

This thesis is attempted to study the employment status of women in Kone Gyi Village Tarct. The objectives of this thesis are to study the current socio-economic and demographic characteristics of women and to explore the determinants of employment status of women in Kone Gyi Village Tract. The sample survey was made from 280 women randomly selected from Kone Gyi Village Tract. According to the results, most of the women are 16.79% in the age group 28 to 32 years. Almost all respondents are Bamar and some of are Kayin. Most of the women have the primary school level and middle school level education. Nearly 37% of the women employed in own business and the number of 97 respondents were jobless. The multinomial logistic regression analysis has been applied to the data from these survey to determine the effective factors on the types of jobs. Furthermore, women age, educational level, marital status, enough income and previous paid job are statistically significant in multinomial logistic regression model