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Youths And Political Participation In Nigeria
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1.8 RESEARCH METHODS
The
research will make use of both primary and secondary sources of data
collection. “Speifel (2000) defined primary source of data collected as
firsthand information from the original source. Such data are usually
obtained from the field through interviews and questionnaires, survey or
recording of official transaction. For this research, Questionnaires
would be designed and distributed to respondents and later collected and
analyzed by the researcher.
The secondary source of data would be
obtained from the review of related literature. In other words, the
consulted published and unpublished works, journal, newspapers,
magazines and seminar collections relating to the study, also the
researcher intends to utilize the qualitative research method in
analyzing this paper. Qualitative research which is used to uncover
trends of thoughts and opinion and also dive deeper in the problem, this
method varies from structured to semi-structured techniques some of
which includes “focus group discussion and interviewsâ€
1.9 CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATION
Youth:
According
to the Nigerian National Youth Policy (2009) the youth shall comprise
of all young males and females aged 18-35 years, who are the citizens of
federal republic of Nigeria.
Political Participation:
According
to Eakin (2010) political participation is the process through which the
individual plays a role in the political life of his society and has
the opportunity to take part in deciding what common goals of the
society are and the best way of achieving these goals.
1.10 ORGANIZATION OF CHAPTERS
This
study comprise of five chapters. Chapter one is deals with the
background of the study which is characterized by introduction,
statement of the problem, research questions, objectives of the study,
proposition, scope and limitation of the study, research method,
significance of research study, definition of concepts. Chapter two
contains review of related literature and theoretical framework.
Chapter three contains the evolution of (Kaduna North Local Government
of Kaduna state). Chapter four will contain data presentation, analysis
and interpretation. While chapter five will comprise of summary,
conclution and recommendation of the study.
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