This study attempts to identify the knowledge attitude and practices of University hostel students regarding waste
management. Total 807 students were residing in selected girl’s hostels out of which 300 students were selected for
study. The selection of the respondents was done by stratified sampling method. Students were divided into strata
according to their level of education (PG and UG). 150 students from UG hostels and 150 students from PG hostelswere selected by selecting every 3rd number from the list of students. Then each of these strata was further
subdivided according to their stream of education viz Sc and NonSc and 75 students from each stratum were
selected. The self administered questionnaires were used to identify knowledge attitude and practices of University
students in the study area. Before it was used, the questionnaire was pretested in the pilot study. Split half method
was used to calculate the reliability. Reliability of the questionnaire was .96, .94 and .96 for knowledge attitude and
practices questionnaire respectively. Information collected through questionnaire included (1) General information
on respondents including age, education, family type and size etc. (2) knowledge regarding waste management (3)
attitude regarding waste management (4) practices regarding waste management.
The respondents were well informed about the purpose of the study and about the questionnaire by the research
investigator prior to data collection. After collecting data, data were edited and tabulated before data analysis.
Descriptive statistics i.e. percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to describe studied variables. ‘t’ test
and correlation tests were used according to the objective of this study