An Attempt to Model Factors Affecting the School’s Dropout Phenomenon in Yemen

Muhammed Abdul Kareem Al-Mansoob; Muhammed Saleh Abdullah Masood; Abdulhakim Abdurabu Mohammed Al-Abid

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An Attempt to Model Factors Affecting the School’s Dropout Phenomenon in Yemen

Muhammed Abdul Kareem Al-Mansoob, Muhammed Saleh Abdullah Masood, Abdulhakim Abdurabu Mohammed Al-Abid

Published in International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 3, Issue 5)

Received: 15 October 2018 Accepted: 29 October 2018 Published: 26 November 2018

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Due to many reasons, the dropout problem at the Yemeni schools is escalating tremendously. This study provides an in-depth analysis on school dropouts through analyzing all available and relative raw data that have been obtained in three Yemeni national official surveys: Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2005-2006, Child Labor Survey (CLS) 2010 and HBS 2014. In each survey, a number of dropouts' reasons was investigated and seven of them were found to be common in these three surveys. With attendance status (attended, not attended) as a dependent variable, the binary logistic regression was used to find out statistical significant reasons for school dropouts in Yemen for the two age groups 6-14 and 15-17 years. From each survey, some significant independent variables (reasons) were detected. These significant reasons were divided into six related dimensions namely; poverty, schools’ situation, education willingness, orphanhood, sex of the children and residence area. Careful consideration to these dimensions has led to suggest a number of relative recommendations and also a prototype that addresses the dropout problem and its deep roots in Yemen.

Published in	International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 3, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijecs.20180305.11
Page(s)	78-85
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dropout, HBS, CLS, Logistic Regression, Yemen

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Muhammed Abdul Kareem Al-Mansoob, Muhammed Saleh Abdullah Masood, Abdulhakim Abdurabu Mohammed Al-Abid. An Attempt to Model Factors Affecting the School’s Dropout Phenomenon in Yemen. Int J Educ Cult Soc. 2018;3(5):78-85. doi: 10.11648/j.ijecs.20180305.11

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Muhammed Abdul Kareem Al-Mansoob

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Sana’a University, Sana'a, Yemen
Muhammed Saleh Abdullah Masood

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education and Language, Amran University, Amran, Yemen
Abdulhakim Abdurabu Mohammed Al-Abid

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Commerce, Sana’a University, Sana'a, Yemen

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