The Level of Rural Women’s Adoption of Recommendations about Cooking Food in Gharbia Governorate

Shalaby, Ragaa H.; Sharshar, Hassan A.; Khalifa, Olaa M.

doi:10.21608/jsas.2024.315886.1479

The Level of Rural Women’s Adoption of Recommendations about Cooking Food in Gharbia Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Agricultural Economics - Agricultural Extension Branch - Faculty of Agriculture - Kafr El-Sheikh University, Egypt

² Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute - Sakha - Agricultural Research Center, Egypt

10.21608/jsas.2024.315886.1479

Abstract

This research mainly aimed to identify the level of rural women’s adoption of recommendations related to cooking food in Gharbia Governorate. The questionnaire was used to collect data through personal interviews from a regular random sample of 119 respondents from the village of Kafr Hijazi in the center of Mahalla, Gharbia Governorate. A number of statistical methods were used, such as frequencies, percentages, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, simple correlation coefficient, multiple correlation coefficient, partial regression coefficient, and the stepwise multiple regression analysis model, in analyzing the research data,The results indicate that 57.98% of the respondents had a medium or high level of adoption of the recommendations related to cooking food, while 42.02% of the respondents had high level of adoption of the recommendations studied. The results also showed that the independent variables studied together explain 23.4% of the variance in the degree of respondents’ adoption of recommendations related to cooking food, based on the value of the coefficient of determination (R2), which amounted to 0.234, and that the most influential independent variables on the degree of respondents’ adoption of recommendations related to cooking food is the educational status of the respondent. It contributes to explaining 13.1% of the variance, and the variable number of children contributes to explaining 3.6% of the variance in the dependent variable.

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