Awareness of Air Pollution Issues among Public Primary School Teachers in Enugu North Senatorial District, Enugu State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined awareness of air pollution issues among primary school teachers in Enugu North Senatorial District, Enugu State, Nigeria. Specifically, it determined the teachers’ awareness of: causes; dangers; and preventive measures of air pollution. Three hypotheses were tested by the study at 0.05 level of significance. Survey design was used for the study. Population consisted of all teachers (9,735) in the area of the study. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to draw a sample 372 teachers. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentages, and Chi-square (x2) at 0.05 level of significance. Major findings include, overall, the awareness of causes of air pollution was moderate (71.7%), overall awareness of the dangers of air pollution was poor (49.1%) and overall awareness of the preventive measures of air pollution was moderate (73.7%). Findings on hypotheses show that the levels of awareness of: causes; dangers; and preventive measures of air pollution did not significantly depend on age, gender and level of education of the public primary school teachers, at the 0.05 level of significance.