(Solved): 1. From the study methodology below, outline thoroughly the following: a) Population and population ...

1. From the study methodology below, outline thoroughly the following: a) Population and population size b) Sample method and sample size c) Method and instrument of data collection d) Method of analysis Title: Evaluating the Impact of the Capitation Grant and the School Feeding Programme on Enrolment. Attendance and Retention in Schools in Ghana Objective: to investigate the impact of the capitation grant and school feeding programmes on school enrolment, attendance and retention in some schools in Ghana Methodology The study selected some primary schools from the Weweso circuit of the Asokwa Sub-Metro education district in the Kumasi Metropolitan Area in the Ashanti region of Ghana. The author obtained the list of all basic schools in the circuit that were beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the school feeding programme and check 20 out of 75 (10 of them were under the school feeding programme, while 10 were not). However, all the schools were beneficiaries of the capitation grant. The study covered the period from the 2001/2002 academic year to the 2008/2009 academic year. Outcome data of the study included gross enrolment, attendance and retention. The covariate variables were capitation grant, school feeding, seasonal effects and Parent Teacher Association approved fees. The method of analysis was basically, difference-in-difference. Capitation grant benefits every pupil enrolled in public schools. Hence, the study compared the effects of the programme with respect to enrolment between periods before and after. The study intended to compare public schools benefiting from the grant with private schools but it came out that the private schools turn to have some fixed level of enrolment which they do not change. Again, attendance and retention in the private schools turn to be almost 100% throughout and so there was no basis for comparison. In the case of the school feeding programme, the study compared changes in enrolment, attendance and retention between before and after, and between beneficiary schools (treatment) and non-beneficiary schools (control). Data were collected from the selected school by the research vising the schools an administering questionnaire, which was supplemented by interviews. Ordinary Least Squares regression was run to find the impact of the programmes on enrolment, attendance and retention over the period of study.