TABLE 6:PREFERRED RECREATION FACILITIES BY GENDER AND AGE [%].
FACILITIES
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MALES
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FEMALES
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12 – 14YRS.
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15 – 17 YRS.
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18 – 22YRS
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Basketball
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28
|
|
|
|
|
Cinemas
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62
|
63
|
56
|
66
|
60
|
Soccer Fields
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62
|
|
33
|
54
|
40
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Swim. Pools
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40
|
57
|
67
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46
|
40
|
Dancing Halls
|
|
43
|
|
|
|
Music. Theatres
|
|
42
|
|
35
|
46
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Hotels
|
|
|
33
|
|
|
* Recreation facilities that are more or less common to all categories of youth.
An interesting thing in TABLE 6 above is that the provision of cinemas, soccer fields and swimming pools are regarded by the three age groups as the most preferable recreation facilities. The reason for such a state of affairs is dealt with in this research in the interpretation section.
9. The Youth Under-utilisation of Leisure and the Provision of Recreation Facilities.
In this section the paper looks at what are the respondents opinions in as far as the under-utilisation of leisure time by the youth, as well as, the provision of recreation facilities in Umlazi. In order to elicit the views of the respondents about the under-utilisation of leisure time by the youth, as well as, the provision of recreation facilities in Umlazi, the researcher has made use of semantic differential scales types of question.
The first question to be treated in this section is question 30. Question 30 required the respondents to give their opinions in as far as the adequacy of recreation facilities in Umlazi. This question in the study was included to serve two purposes. On one hand it was intending to get the attitudes of the respondents towards the existing recreation facilities in Umlazi, while on the other extreme it was used as a direct test of one of the hypotheses of this study. In this question about 92,4% of the respondents indicated that in Umlazi there is lack of recreation facilities. It is only 7,6% who held the view that Umlazi is provided with sufficient recreation facilities. A response of this nature was common even taking age and gender into consideration.
Other questions that were intended to solicit the attitude of the youth were questions 27, 28 and 29. These questions were more or less related to each other in a way. The fundamentals of their relationship were in the sense that, the respondents were requested to put forward their opinions, in as far as the youth under-utilisation of leisure time, and their probable involvement in: delinquent behaviour (Q27); usage of drugs (Q28); and involvement in criminal behaviour (Q29). The respondents were made to use the following scale items:
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Fully Agree (FA)
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Agree (A)
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Disagree (D)
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Fully Disagree (FD)
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The responses gathered for these questions are clearly summarized in figure 5.9 below. From figure 5.9 the researcher deduces that the majority of the respondents are fully agreeable to the youth under-utilization of leisure time and consequential anti-social behaviour. Only less than 20% of the respondents hold a different view. Those who are holding a different view altogether seem not to relate the youth under- utilization of leisure time to anti social behaviour.
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