Bedouin Youth Attitudes Towards Self-employment in South Sinai Governorate

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Social Studies department, Economic and Social Studies Division , Desert Research Center, Egypt

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The study mainly aimed to study the attitudes of Bedouin youth towards self-employment in Al-Tur district in South Sinai Governorate, through the following sub-objectives: Describing the attitudes of Bedouin youth surveyed towards self-employment in the study area, determining the relationship between some personal, social and economic characteristics of the respondents and their attitudes towards self-employment, identifying the reasons for the reluctance of Bedouin youth to self-employment, and finally identifying the proposals of Bedouin youth to overcome the problems that prevent them from self-employment.The study was conducted in the village of Jubail in the district of Al-Tur, which is the largest village in the total number of Bedouin youth in the age group of (20-35) years, and a regular random sample of (313) Bedouin youth was selected. The data was collected through a questionnaire collected through a personal interview. In analyzing the data of this study, where some descriptive statistical methods, in addition to the use of both the chi-square and the simple Pearson correlation coefficient, stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results showed that about 7.67% of the respondents had a negative attitude towards self-employment, and that about half of the total research sample had a neutral attitude towards self-employment, by 41.21% and that 51.12%, of the respondents had a positive attitude towards self-employment. The results show that the largest percentage of young people surveyed had a positive attitude towards self-employment.

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Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Sustainable Development
Volume 2, Issue 2
June 2025
Pages 350-365

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