This is a report of the survey under life style of young people in badulla area in Sri Lanka. This survey was a result of the project under university subject of quantitative reasoning.

1. Quantitative Reasoning IIT Group No 3 1

2. Youth in Badulla area and their life styles 2

4. The idea and vision towards the young people have been changed time to time.

5. So we decided to concern about prevailing life styles of our youth.

6. Mainly we conduct our survey based on five specific sub topics.Education Economy Religion & culture Health Entertainment 3

7. Objectives of our survey Identify the life style of young generation in Badulla area. Identify the problems of young generation in Badullaarea. Give suggestion to solve the problems and develop the life style of young generation 4

8. Significance Reason for selecting the topic Reason to select Badulla Area. Importance to the society. Importance to us. 5

9. Scope Area: Badulla Divisional secretary Area. 6

10. Methodology of the survey 01.Target Population: Age limit of young generation between 20-29 years in Badulla urban, estate and rural areas. 02.The Sample Size: - 50 units (people) 03.Sampling Techniques: - Stratified sampling technique - Systematicalsampling technique - Convenience sampling technique 04.Data Collection Method: - Questionnaires Method - Observation Method 05. Analyzing software - Minitab 14 7

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12. General information 9

13. Most ( approximately 64%) of the respondents are male in our sample population. 10

14. Most of the young people (approximately 54%) represent 20-25 age limit. 11

15. Most of the young people in our sample are unmarried. The graph shows it is approximately 62%. 12

16. 73% of young people in age group of 29-30 have been married. Only 6% of young people have been married in the age group of 20-22. 13

17. Most of the young people’s race is Sinhala and it is about approximately 66%. 14

18. Most of the youth are Buddhist. As a percentage it is about 62%. 15

19. Education Level 16

20. Most of the young people are educated people in our sample. Among them, approximately 58% young people are beyond in A/L and Degree. 17

21. Most of the young people in our sample haven't fluent English knowledge. But most of the young people have normal knowledge about 52% also there are 12% of the youth fluent in English. 18

22. Most of the young people (approximately 56%) do not satisfy about the facilities in sample area. 19

23. In estates 0% young people have learnt up to A/L. In rural areas approximately 81.25% young people have passed A/L . And also in urban areas 70% of young people have passed A/L. 20

24. In estates, no one participated for a computer course. But in urban areas 61% have followed a computer course. 21

25. Entertainment Level 22

26. Most (approximately 28.9%) of the young people in sample area spend their leisure time by watching TV. 23

27. The young people living in sample area (estate, urban, rural) spend their leisure time by watching TV. Internet chatting can be seen only in the urban area as a leisure time activity. 24

28. Most (approximately 62.5%) of young people in estate area accept that they have been given enough entertainment facilities. Only 37.5% believe they have not enough entertainment facilities. 25

29. Religious and cultural affairs 26

30. Most of (approximately 74%) young people engage in religious activities once a day. 27

31. 84% of youth people accept that they have enough time to engage in religious activities while 16% disagree with them. 28

32. Economic level 29

33. Majority of (approximately 56%) are employees. Minority of people (approximately 4%) are employed while studying. 30

34. Majority of (approximately 27%) employees are private, estate and self- employees. Minority of employees (approximately 18%) are government. 31

35. Most (approximately 75%) of the young employees are male. 50% of female are unemployed. 32

36. Most(approximately 54.5%) of young employees in private sector do not satisfy with their jobs. 36% of young self employees satisfy with their job type. 33

37. Most (approximately 100%)of young estate workers belong to grade 5 and up to grade 8 education category. All the young people in degree level are included only to government & private job types. 34

38. 31% of young people have a monthly income in range of 10,000-15,000 . 35

39. According to the above mentioned graph , majority of degree holders earn more than Rs. 20000. Majority of groups whose education level is least than O/L earn less than Rs. 5000. 36

40. 68% of youth population maintain savings while 32% don't. 37

41. As to the opinions of young people in our sample, there is no jobs for below grade 5 and degree level in sample area. Most (approximately 42.85%) of job opportunities are available for up to level of grade 8 education. 38

42. Health level 39

43. Weight of the young people is asymmetrical. Mean of the data set is 56.08. And the median is 53.0. Skewness of the dataset is 0.78. There is few unusual data in the dataset. 40

44. The behavior of the data is asymmetrical. The skewness of the dataset is 1.75. Mean and the median of data is 163.44 and 159. 41

45. The mean value of BMI (21.33) of male is greater than female’s BMI (19.15) value. 42

46. Most(approximately 61%) of female has the normal BMI state. And most(approximately 48%) of male has the obese level of BMI value. 43

47. 84% of young people are not suffering from any chronic disease. 44

48. Rural area has the highest percentage (approximately 87.5%) of availability of sanitary facilities. But the least percentage (approximately 64%) of availability of sanitary facilities are recorded in estates. 45

49. In estates 64% don't have the facility of pure drinking water sufficiently. But in rural area 88% have pure drinking water facility sufficiently. 46

50. According to the above graph, the highest percentage (25%) of chronic patients are reported from the age group of 20-22 among young people in sample area. 47

51. Major Issues 48

52. Most (approximately 54.5%) of the young people around estates have been addicted to odd things. Problem of the drainage system also represents a highest percentage (approximately 82%). 49

53. Majority (approximately 91%) of young people in estates do not satisfy with their monthly income. But most (approximately 77.7%)of the young people in estates satisfy about their job. 50

54. Statement : There is no association between Variable “A” and Variable “B”. Assumption : There is an association between Variable “A” and variable “B”. If P-Value> 0.05 Accept the statement If P-Value<0.05 Accept the assumption 51

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58. Majority of the young people are unmarried.

59. In our sample, composition of the male population is greater than female population.

62. But young people in estate areas in Badulla show poor enthusiasm for higher education.

63. Though there is a good education level in rural andurban areas, young people in rural areas show much motivation for higher education than the young people in urban areas.

64. When we consider about the English knowledge, most of the population has a normal knowledge. As well as computer literacy shows almost equal percentages in urban and rural areas. But in estates it shows a very low percentage. 55

66. But the preference for other activities like aesthetic subjects and sports is very low.

67. Furthermore, most of the young people are notsatisfied with the entertainment facilities in this area. That may affect for their low interest about other activities.

68. Internet chatting can be seen onlyamong the young people in urban areas. Low knowledge in computer technology, low income and the low availability can be the reasons for this observation. 56

70. By accepting that they have enough time to implement religious activities, we can conclude that they accept religion as an important part of their life.57

72. The youth’s participation to the governmental jobs is lower than that of the other sectors. But we can decide that they don’t highly expect government jobs.

73. The population of the young people who get the highest income and the lowest income is in low percentages. So we can decide most of the young people in Badulla have a middle class economy.

74. But the most of young people in Badulla do not satisfy with their income. So we think the inflation of the country badly affects for the middle class people.58

76. Most of the employed young people in Badulla area have achieved general education level. There cannot be seen more job opportunities in Badulla for the young people who have high education level. It shows that there is a high rate of unemployment among leading people inside of Badulla area.

77. There is a strong combination between monthly income and the education level.59

79. Mean value of the height of a young person in Badulla area is 163.44cm.

80. Mean BMI value for a young Male in Badulla area is 21.18.

83. Sufficient job opportunities should be created for educated young people in Badulla area.

84. Infrastructure facilities in estate in Badulla area should be developed further.

85. More facilities for high level of appreciation should be supplied.61

87. To the young people who live in estate areas in Badulla should be introduced new technology.

88. Unemployed young people in Badulla must be offered loan facilities and knowledge to start new self employments.

89. There should be new projects to produce pure drinking water to the estate workers.

90. New youth and sports societies must be created to improve their unity, creativity and sports skills of young people in Badulla area.62

91. Questions ? ? ? ? ? 63

92. Our group members 64 M.D.R.Jayamini UWU/IIT/10/0016 T.D.D.P. Jayananda UWU/IIT/10/0017 S.M.U.C. Seneviratne UWU/IIT/10/0038 I.H.M.S. Kumara UWU/IIT/10/0023 H.A.P. Weerasekara UWU/IIT/10/0045 S.P.T.P. Senadheera UWU/IIT/10/0037 T.D.P.N. Jayasooriya UWU/IIT/10/0018 W.A. Lakmali UWU/IIT/10/0025 D.W.N.B.Y. De Silva UWU/IIT/10/0005 W.A.Y.I. Wickramasinghe UWU/IIT/10/0046 B.T.T. Fernando UWU/IIT/10/0012 D.T.D.K. Yapa UWU/IIT/10/0048 R.M.I.S. Ranasighe UWU/IIT/10/0032 E.R.M.Y.D.B. Madugalle UWU/IIT/10/0027 T.Nistar UWU/IIT/10/0030