AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EMPLOYMENT AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS IN TANZANIA
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This studyempirically assesses employment among college students in Tanzania. It examined theeffect of age and gender on student employment, the factors that lead employed people to join undergraduate studies, and identified ways that colleges may use to help employed students to succeed in their studies in Tanzania. Data were collected using questionnaires, interviews and analyzed quantitatively through descriptive analysis and multiple logistic regression. Logistic regression results showed that the employment probability was steadily increasing between ages 18 to 33, but then after it decreases steadily with age at least after age 34, and the male students had an average chance of employment 2.15 times the chance of female students. Descriptive statisticsresults showed that the factor that leads employed people to join undergraduate studies were: the need for technical skills, knowledge, exposure, job security, social status, job market, job promotion, get new friends, internal motivation, and unemployment.
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