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JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
do not have any intention to do business. The last research
question was focused on identifying differences in the expected
amount of the wage connected with the type of school that the
students are currently studying at (technical versus economic
field of study). The questionnaire was in written form.
The SW Statistica was used to evaluate the data (Chi test, Test of
correspondence of two parameters with binomial division,
Kruskal-Wallis and Mann Whitney test).
3 Results
From the results it emerged that almost a quarter of the
secondary school students who are at the end of their secondary
school studies (3rd and 4th Years) are not thinking about their
future career yet. More than 50 % of respondents assume that
they will continue their studies at college, 10 % want to start
working after their school leaving exam and only 4 % of
respondents state that they will do business.
Table 1 Visions of secondary school students about their further
plans after finishing secondary school
What are your
plans after
finishing secondary
school?
absolute
frequen
cy
relative
frequen
cy in %
relative
frequen
cy in %
relative
frequen
cy in %
total
total
men
women
I want to study at
college
199
53.35
45.78
59.42
I want to start
working
38
10.19
11.45
9.18
I want to do
business
15
4.02
7.23
1.45
I don’t know, I
haven’t thought
about it
91
24.40
27.11
22.22
Either studying at
college or working
12
3.22
3.01
3.38
Business is stated as
one of the options
18
4.83
5.42
4.35
sum
373
100.00
100.00
100.00
Source: own
From Table 1 it can be seen that men think about their future
career differently than women. The questioned women often
have the intention to continue in their studies at college, less
often think about starting to work right after finishing secondary
school than men, they think about doing business very
sporadically but overall, they think about their future more than
men. With the Chi-Square test, it was verified that these plans
between sexes are statistically significantly different. The found
p value = 0.028668 confirmed that the ascertained gender
differences in future plans of secondary school students are
statistically important.
The intention to do business was expressed by more than 7 % of
men but less than 2 % of women. The test of correspondence of
two parameters with binomial division established that the
percentage of men who plan to do business is statistically
significantly higher than the percentage of women (p =
0.010301102). Given that almost a quarter of the respondents
answered that they have not thought about their future career yet,
it was also tested whether there is a significant gender difference
in this matter. It was found that the attitudes of the yet undecided
are not that big of a statistically important difference between
men and women (p = 0.137232).
Table 2 Wage expectation of students
1
category
2
category
3
category
4
category
5
category
6
category
I will start
doing
business
Less
than
15,000
CZK
15,000
–
19,999
CZK
20,000
–
24,999
CZK
25,000
–
29,999
CZK
30,000
–
49,999
CZK
50,000
CZK
or
more
Absolute
frequency
17
43
82
71
75
85
Relative
frequency
0.046
0.115
0.220
0.190
0.201
0.228
Source: own
Every student also answered the question of what gross wage
they would expect if they were to start doing business. Wage
categories were created and the students marked their wage
expectations in the chosen category (Table 2).
In the next step, the respondents were divided into three
categories depending on their answer to what will they do after
finishing secondary school (i.e., whether they have the intention
to do business or not), see Table 3.
Table 3 Categorization of respondents according to their future
plans
What are your plans after finishing
secondary school?
Category
of group
Absolute
frequency
I have no intention to do business (I will
work or study)
1
249
I have the intention to do business
2
33
I do not know, I haven’t thought about it
yet
3
91
Source: own
Afterwards, whether the median of wages of each group (Table
3) differ statistically significantly was ascertained. The Kruskal
Wallis method was used because the data did not show a normal
distribution. The results of the test are stated in Table 4.
Table 4 Statistical test of differences of the median of wages
Test Statistics
a
Ascertained values
Chi-Square
9,584
df
2
Asymp. Sig.
0.008
a. Kruskal Wallis Test
Source: own
From Table 1 it can be seen that the expected amount of wage
(or the wage category) in case the students have the intention to
do business in the monitored groups (I have no intention to do
business, I have the intention to do business, I do not know, I
haven’t thought about it yet) is statistically significantly
different.
Next, it was researched in which category (according to the
intention/plan of what they will do after finishing secondary
school) the median of the expected wage is the highest. We
compared the medians of two categories at a time. First, we
compared the group who have the intention to do business and
the group who don’t.
The Mann Whitney test was used to test it and the results are
shown in Table 5.
Table 5 Statistical significance of differences in expected wages
according to future plans (I have the intention to do business
versus I do not have any intention to do business)
Test Statistics
a
Ascertained values
Mann-Whitney U
2,832.00
Wilcoxon W
33,957.00
Z
-2.955
Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed)
0.003
Source: own
From the results it emerged that students who have the intention
to do business after finishing secondary school also expect a
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