EFFECTS OF FAMILY SIZE AND PARENT’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS ON CHILD SCHOOL TYPE IN ZANGO KATAF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KADUNA STATE.

Ayuba, D.* and Daniel, B.

The relationship between family size and child school type was investigated. A total of 450 heads of households was taken as a study sample from four chiefdoms that constitute the local Government Area thus; Atyap, Bajju, Ikulu and Angan from which one district was selected and in each district two settlements were selected at random. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine relationships within the data set. It was found that 43.0% had no formal education with different income levels. Also religion is positively related with large family size; both Christianity, 0156 and .0060 at p0.01 and low income were found to have positive correlation with large family size while family size 3-4 and ≥5 are related positively with all school type. In addition, lager families such as 3-4 and ≥5, were found to had trained more children in schools than others. It is recommended that the quality of teaching in both public and private schools should be improved

Key words: Family Size, Children training and education, School type, Zango kataf.