Tracer Study of Socio-economic and demographic Impacts of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for Women in Baluchistan

Authors

Dr. Aziz Ahmed

Lecturer, Department of Economics, Faculty of Management Sciences, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Balochistan

Dr. Abdul Wadood

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Arts and Basic Sciences, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Balochistan

Dr. Noor Mohammad

Associate Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Management Sciences, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Balochistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2020(4-III)58

Keywords

Employment Female Earnings Socio-Economic Development Tracer Study TVET

Abstract

This paper describes socio-economic and demographic impacts of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) provision for women empowerment in rural and urban areas of Baluchistan. Within the TVET institutional framework, the analysis is descriptive and questionnaire-based data from 178 TVET qualified women, by using three stage-stratified sampling techniques, are traced out in rural and urban areas/markets of Baluchistan. The factors like, self-employed, parents’ education, ethnicity, household head characteristics, rural and urban set ups, institutional affiliation, and self-choice for a specific TVET skill trade contribute to socio-economic and demographic empowerment of women. Rural women are found to get less economic benefits of jobs and income earnings as compared to their urban counterparts. The findings guide towards the profound contribution of TVET in theory of human capital formation and its socio-economic and demographic impacts specifically to women empowerment studies in the under-developed regions