DATA PRESENTATION, INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS ON THE ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS, TOWARDS FOREIGN PROGRAMMES ON INDEPENDENT TELEVISION

DATA PRESENTATION, INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS

4.0         Introduction

     This study is focused on the attitude of students towards foreign programmes on Independent television and testing the relevancies of the stated research question in relation to the subject matter. This chapter will hence emphasize on the analysis of data collected, its interpretation and presentation of the findings in an attempt to obtain solution to some of the research question.

4.1         Data presentation and analysis

     The data are grouped by faculty, scored and analyzed using percentage. The total number of 400 questionnaire was distributed and total of 280 was collected immediately from various faculty of the University of Port Harcourt.

Table 1

Faculty	Total N	%	Sample size	Ing	Inc
Natural applied	462	8	400	29	20
Agriculture science	103	1.66	400	7	7
Chemistry	640	10.3	400	41	20
Education	1, 298	20.90	400	84	80
Engineering	699	11.27	400	45	25
Humanities	7, 49	12	400	48	20
Managements sciences	503	8.11	400	32	16
Sciences	1, 125	18.1	400	72	50
Social sciences	559	9.01	400	36	36
Pharmacy	42	0.67(1)	400	4	4
Dentistry	23	0.37	400	2	2
Total	6200	100	-	400	280

          The table above will be used to analyze the following research question using the formula below:

Number of respondents                              x        100

Number of returned instruments                  1

          Research question 1: what is the extent of exposure of the student to foreign programmes on Independent Television station in the university of Port Harcourt?

          To answer the question, the research question 3 and 4 will be analyzed in the table below.

Question 3:          Which of these programmes do you often view                                       on independent television?

Table 2          Programmes viewed by respondents

Respondents	Number of respondents	Percentage
News/current	24	8.5%    (9)
Fashion	68	24.2     24
Music/dance	62	22.1     22
Drama series	40	14.2     14
Cartons	10	3.57      4
Movies	76	27.14   27
Total	280	100

          From the table above, it is seen that 24 numbers of respondents (final year students of Uniport) always watch news (Current affairs programmes, 68 (24%) respondents always watch fashion/dressing related programmes, 62 (22%) watch music/dance, 40 (14%) watch drama while only 10 (4%) watch  cartoon, 76 (27%) watch movies.

Question 7: Which of these programmes  are you exposed to                                     the more?

Table 3:              respondents exposure to programs

Foreign	No of respondents	Percentage	Local	Number of respondent	Percentage
African	50	17.85	National	14	40.7
American	106	38	Yoruba	43	15.3
European	86	30.7	Igbo	64	22.8
Asian	38	13.57	Hausa	35	12.5
Australian	-	-	Minorities	24	8.57
Total	280	100%	Total	280	100%

         

          Table 3 which represent the analysis of question 1 in the questionnaire shows that 17.87% exposed to African, 13.57% are exposed to Asian while 0% are exposed to Australian. 40.7 are exposed to the National, 15.3 are exposed to Yoruba, 22.8% exposed to Igbo, 12.5 are exposed to Hausa, 8.57 are exposed to minorities in the local programmes.

Research question two: Is there any relationship between the attitudinal change of students and foreign programmes on independent television?

          To respond to this question, question number 5, 6, 7 and 12 in the questionnaire will be analyzed below using tables.

Question 5: What is your attitude towards foreign programmes?

Table 4:      Respondents attitude towards foreign programmes 

Responds	No of respondents	Percentage
Positive	164	58.6
Negative	116	41.4
Uncertain	-	-
Total	280	100%

         

          The table that 164 (58.6%) respondents have positive attitude to foreign programmes while 116 (41.4%) have negative attitude to foreign programmes.

Question 6:          Does foreign programmes influence the attitude                                     of students?

Table 5:      Influence of foreign programmes

Responds	No of respondents	Percentage
Yes	200	71.4%
No	80	28.5%
Non	-	-
Total	280	100%

         

          The above table declared that number of respondents whose attitude are influenced and not influenced, therefore 71.4% declared that their attitude are influenced while 28.5 are not.

Question 7: In your own opinion, how do you think the                                            foreign television programmes influence the                                     attitude of students?

Table 6       Respondents opinion on foreign programmes

Responds	No of respondents	Percentage
Positive	200	71.4%
Negative	80	28.5%
Uncertain	-	-
Total	280	100%

          The above table declared the number of respondents who think the foreign television programmes influence the attitude of students 71.4% think that it influences them positively while 28.5% thinks it influences them negatively.

Question 12:        In what area have these foreign progammes                                            influenced you the more?

Table 7:          Areas of influence

Responds	No of respondents	Percentage
Greeting	46	16.4
Eating	24	8.6
Dancing	64	22.9
Singing	28	10
Dressing	88	31.4
Talking	30	10.4
None	-	-
Total	280	100

          The table shows that  (16.4%) respondents agree that the area in which the station influence them the more is greeting 8.6% say it is eating 22.9% say its dancing, 10% say it is singing 88 (31.4%) it is dressing while 30 (10.7%) it is talking.

Research question 3:     Do you believe that this trend is                                                                unhealthy and harmful to the                                                                  existence of our cultural heritage?

Table 8:      Trend harmful to cultural heritage

Response	No of respondents	Percentage
No	88	31.4
Yes	192	68.6
Total	280	100%

          The table shows that this trend is unhealthy and harmful  to the existence of our cultural heritage while 192 (68.6) respondents do not believe.

Research question 4: To what extent do students watch foreign programmes to get an answer to this, question 2 will be analyzed in the table below?

Table 9:   Exposure to foreign programmes

Responses	No of respondents	Percentage
Yes	260	92.8
No	20	7.1
None	-	-
Total	280	100%

          The table above shows that (92.8%) 260 respondents believe that they often watch foreign programmes on Independent Television while 20 (7.1%) don’t watch.

Question 2:          Do you watch foreign programmes on                                                     independent television?

4.2     Discussion of findings

Research question 1

          From the analysis in research question 1, table 2, 3 shows that final year student of uniport are exposed to foreign programmes on Independent television station. A higher amount watch independent television because of movies, while some go for fashion. 22.1% watch more of movie and dance, while 14.2% watch drama/soap series, 8.5% watch news/current affairs and the remaining 4% watch cartoons.

Research question 2

          From the analysis in research question 2, table 4, 5, 6 and 7 shows that there is relationship between the change of attitude of students and foreign programmes on independent television. Table 4 shows that higher percentage have positive attitude towards foreign programmes. Table 5 shows that 71.4% are influenced by foreign programmes while 28.5% are not. Table 6 show that 71.4% are negatively influenced while 28.5% are positively influenced by foreign programmes on independent television.

          Table 7 shows that 31.4% are influenced in the area of dressing, while 22.9% are influenced in the area of dancing. 16% are influenced in the area of greetings while 10% are influenced in the area of eating.

Research question 3

          From the analysis in research question 3, table, 8 shows that higher number of final year students of uniport think that the trend is unhealthy and harmful to the existence of our cultural heritage.

Research question 4

          From the analysis in research question 4, tables 9 shows that (92.8%) people watch foreign programmes on independent television while 7.1% don’t watch foreign programmes on independent television.

          Generally, majority of uniport final year students watch foreign programmes on Independent television while minority watch local programmes.