Survival analysis of dropout rate of beneficiaries of compassion International programme
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2019-09-30
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Abstract
Compassion International Is Christ Centered, Child focused and church based organization
committed to helping and supporting their beneficiaries (Children) through local churches
in the community. For Some time now, Compassion International have been experiencing
high rate of dropouts of its programme in spite of numerous benefits for the registered children.
The study sought to propose a statistical model for the Compassion International
Ghana beneficiaries dropout rates using the methodology of survival analysis modelling
Approach. The bio-data on the beneficiaries were extracted from the database of compassion
connect of compassion international Ghana. The survival rates of the beneficiaries
were traced at the end of each year. It was found out that the dropouts of beneficiaries
were influenced by the location of beneficiaries, Their gender and age group? Also,
beneficiaries from rural communities were more likely to drop out from the programme
and that females were more likely to dropout earlier than their male counterparts. This
research will be of relevance to compassion international Ghana and its affiliated stakeholders
in planning of necessary interventions to eradicate or deduce dropout rates from
such sponsored programmes.
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A thesis submitted to the department of mathematics in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Master of Science in Applied Statistics (MSc. Applied Statistics)