Research report Methodology
To analyze these issues, primary research was done. The research was designed as descriptive. To make a research I created a survey in surveymonkey.com and it consisted of 10 questions. There were some open ended questions. Respondents may skip some questions or make multiple choice when answering not open ended questions.
The population of the survey is KIMEP university students. The link to the survey questions were sent to group of students with note that responding is volunteered. The primary sample consisted of 30 people and they were chosen randomly from subscribers’ list of KIMEP’s official public in vk.com. After a day only 11 students volunteered and because of that I expand the sample. Another 10 KIMEP students were chosen from friends’ list of my vk.com page. In a whole, the sample for the questionnaire study comprised students from all courses, but many of them were freshmen. Then, there were only 4 male respondents of general 18. On the next day 10 male respondents were chosen randomly from publics of KIMEP students’ organizations to make a balance between genders.
The survey was created and started to send on 6th of March. It lasted till evening of 10th of March. The survey link was sent to 50 people and was answered from 24 students, 11 male and 13 female. The results were analyzed by the help of surveymonkey.com site and described in the next section. For better understanding figures for the main findings were created.
The survey was intended to answer what family structure respondents have and what family structure they are planning or likely to build. The family structure was considered in relation to parents’ role and its cultures’ modernization or, vice verse, conservation.
Results
The purpose of this part is to count results and show or describe the main findings by visual aids. More than three quarters of the respondents were freshmen from 17 to 19 and more than half of general sample were girls. These survey results likely to be predictive.
The results of the survey were analyzed and the major parts of it will be shown here. Half of the respondents were from the middle class, a single respondent answered that he or she from lower class, and other major group preferred not to answer on this question. The majority, 19 students, answered that their families are modern and many of them described “modern families” as tolerant to new youth culture and creative, also. Other respondents described “conservative ones” as families with old lifestyles, concepts, traditions, and religious views. Interestingly, there are one female respondent, from her respond in their family mother dominates on everything. There are other results of the survey. It is predictable that on issues related to child upbringing dominates mother and on issues related to different kinds of problem solving dominates father. The next major points will be shown with figures.
Figure 1
Figure 1 describes how structured the respondents’ families considered in relation to parents’ role related to finance and work. The first colored column shows the number of families that have equality on specific issue, the second one shows the number of mother-headed families, and the last third one shows the father-headed families’ number. There are two tables to compare. The first is related to earning or working and the second is related to how to spend decision making. There are families where parents equal on these issues are more in both, but mother-dominating families on spending money are more, not on earning. On the other hand, families with fathers as breadwinners are more than as budget regulators. It shows how different parents’ treat finance.
Figure 2a Figure 2b
There are 2 figures to compare: Figure 2a and Figure 2b. The Figure 2a shows respondents’ attitude on families where females dominate and the second one, Figure 2b, shows respondents’ attitude on families where males, fathers, seat at home and do all house works instead of housewives. There are 3 variants on each for the respondents when answering: positive, it means that they are not against and support; neutral, means that they do not care or have no idea about; negative, means that they are against and do not support the idea. It is apparent that in the Figure 2a more than a half of the respondents have neutral attitude on women-maintained families and only few number of respondents do not support this idea. However, there are almost half of the respondents are against families with fathers doing house works in the Figure 2b. The two tables are absolutely different.
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The data from the third figure describe respondents’ willingness or plans to their future life. There are three parts of a circle: first, that for people seating at home; second, for the ones that prefer to combine family with work; and third part, which shows the number of future workaholics. There are only a pair on first piece of a circle and another pair on the third piece. The rest majority plans to hold on to both, work and home.
How it is mentioned many findings are similar to predictions. However, there are some points to be discussed and clarified. There are interesting trend between parents’ role on financial issues.