Research Article
Social Isolation of the Stateless and the Destitute: A Study on the Refugee-Camp and the Sullied Slum of Dhaka City
Table 3
Statistically significant relations between “place of living” and selected “statements & responses” (in percent) (
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| Place of Living | Statements and responses | Total | Statistics | Strongly Agree | Agree | Uncertain | Disagree | Strongly Disagree |
| | Most people today rarely feel lonely | | | Camp | 9.2 | 40.8 | 21.4 | 23.5 | 5.1 | 100.0 | = 11.670, df = 4, = 0.05 | Slum | 11.6 | 23.5 | 26.7 | 27.1 | 11.2 | 100.0 | Total | 10.9 | 28.4 | 25.2 | 26.1 | 9.5 | 100.0 |
| | Real friends are as easy as ever to find | | | Camp | 12.2 | 33.7 | 14.3 | 22.4 | 17.3 | 100.0 | = 20.671, df = 4, = 0.001 | Slum | 12.4 | 17.1 | 9.2 | 22.3 | 39.0 | 100.0 | Total | 12.3 | 21.8 | 10.6 | 22.3 | 33.0 | 100.0 |
| | I don’t get to visit friends as often as I’d really like | | | Camp | 14.3 | 33.7 | 13.3 | 25.5 | 13.3 | 100.0 | = 16.149, df = 4, α = 0.005 | Slum | 30.3 | 30.3 | 17.9 | 14.3 | 7.2 | 100.0 | Total | 25.8 | 31.2 | 16.6 | 17.5 | 8.9 | 100.0 |
| | One can always find friends if he shows himself friendly | | | Camp | 7.1 | 50.0 | 12.2 | 21.4 | 9.2 | 100.0 | = 32.336, df = 4, = 0.001 | Slum | 35.5 | 29.5 | 14.3 | 13.5 | 7.2 | 100.0 | Total | 27.5 | 35.2 | 13.8 | 15.8 | 7.7 | 100.0 |
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Source: survey data.
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