Research Population

3.1            Research Population

          The population of this study  is both educated and non-educated people male and female between the ages of 16-50 years old, the population statistically is 3,000 persons estimated through their voting strength.

3.2            Research Procedures

          The setting for this study is Bayelsa and the sample size of 300 (Three Hundred) person where randomly selected out of communities through the stratified random sampling. They are kabiama, Dagana-Gbene and Agoro in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

3.3            Research Instrument

          The instrument that was used for this study is the questionnaire. The question is used to obtain information on rural communication in Radio Bayelsa State and access to information for development in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The questionnaire is in two sections, the first section contain information on the demographic factor for the respondent while the second section contain answers to the research question related to the study.

3.4            Method of Data Collection

          The response given by the people was collected and used to analyze the rural communication in Radio Bayelsa State and access to information for development in Sagbama, Bayelsa State  in other t analyze the data gathered, the descriptive method based on percentage calculation was used, table was also used to clarify and illustrate the findings. In words, the researcher also interview some persons or respondents by asking question as they appeared in the questionnaire.

3.5            Method of Data Analysis

          The data will encoded and analyzed for simplicity clarity and for easy understanding the data will be presented in a tabular form, using frequency distribution and percentage.