Socio-economic Effects of Mobile Phone and Night Packages on Youth in District Faisalabad, Pakistan
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The Explorer Islamabad: Journal of Social Sciences
ISSN: 2411-0132(E), 2411-5487(P)
Vol-1, Issue (8):283-285
www.theexplorerpak.org
SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF MOBILE PHONE AND NIGHT PACKAGES ON YOUTH IN
DISTRICT FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN
Ashar Sultan Kayani
Student of Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Corresponding Author:
Ashar Sultan Kayani
Institute of agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad
[email protected]
Abstract: In a short time cell phone got its fame among the younger generations. In Asia, Pakistan is on 5th rank in
mobile phone users. All the phone organizations in Pakistan are putting forth appealing late night call bundles that are
extremely mainstream maybe for the reason that they are simple on the pocket. The aim of present study to find out
the socio-economic effects of long late night calls packages on youth in District Faisalabad. Information was gathered by
utilizing Multistage inspecting strategy. Factual Package for Social Sciences were utilized for information investigation. A
large number of the respondents i.e. 68.3 percent used mobile phone to keep in contact with their friends and family.
Long call night packages had many negative effect on youth i.e. Poor sleeping habit (35.0%), less time for education
(25.8%) and Motivate risky sexual behavior (20.8%). It is proposed that all telecom administrators to boycott
throughout the night call bundle administrations with quick impact.
Key Words: Night Packages, Telecom, Cell Phones, Socio-Economic
INTRODUCTION
Cellular telephone is a phone that does not have
wires and works by radio that can be conveyed with
to utilize all over the place. Cell telephone society
ventured in the place where there is Pakistan after
1990s yet cell telephone got its distinction after
1994 after the foundation of some cell systems.
European Union's in-house measurable office
assessed that around 3.3 billion individuals of the
aggregate world populace were utilizing cell
telephones by November 2007. This figure is relied
upon to increment to 90% by the year 2010 (Javed,
et al. 2011). Pakistan ranks 5th in Asia in mobile
phone users as more than 100 million people are
using mobile phones in the country. According to
statistics released by the PTA, the number of
mobile phone users in Pakistan has reached 131
million (Express Tribune 2011). The aftereffects of
study directed in Norway demonstrates that the 16
years of age individuals have a 100% cellular
telephone ownership and in 2001 just 20% of the
youngsters having a place with the age gathering of
16 year old had cellular telephones. Like the wallets
mobile phone has turned into an extremely vital
thing (Ling 2001). The clients of PDAs throughout
the world are expanding both in the urban
communities and in addition in the rustic ranges
because of the enthusiasm of the endeavors of the
administration giving organizations. It has been
found that in 2011-2012 the clients have acquired
119.860 million associations (Yasir 2012). Alluring
elements alongside web office. The adolescent is,
currently occupied in using the administrations of
face book and twitter – the informal communities
for the individuals to share and trade their thoughts
and sentiments. The cell organizations have
presented night bundles for the clients and we are
mindful that the cell organizations have presented
night bundles for the client. The individuals from
distinctive strolls of life are raising their voices by
means of broad communications and print media
so as to stop such sorts of the offers gave by the
cell organizations on the grounds that the eventual
fate of the young is in question. The commonplace
gathering of the Punjab Province has passed a
determination that the late night bundles offered
by the phone organizations ought to be banned in
light of the fact that they are ruining the adolescent
youth The tagline used by the Jazz is “rat schru bat
schru”; Zem, “infinite craze”; Djuice, “jagtay raho”;
etc (Safdar 2010). The exploration has
demonstrated that 78% of the respondents are of
the supposition that PDAs give them better
comprehension of life in light of the fact that they
can stay associated with their companions, relatives
and folks (LSE 2006). The exploration has
demonstrated that 78% of the respondents are of
the supposition that PDAs give them better
comprehension of life in light of the fact that they
can stay associated with their companions, relatives
283
Table. 1: Age of the Respondents and Negative Effect of
Cellular Telephone
Age
Respondents'
Total
Groups
acknowledgment about the
negative effect of long and
calls and cell telephone
Low
Medium
High
19-20
8
8
12
28
28.6%
28.6%
42.9%
100.0%
21-22
12
32
26
70
17.1%
45.7%
37.1%
100.0%
23-24
4
12
6
22
18.2%
54.5%
27.3%
100.0%
Total
24
52
44
120
20.0%
43.3%
36.7%
100.0%
Chi-square = 4.31
Significance = .385NS
NS = Non-Significant
d.f = 4
Gamma= -.045
Table 1 demonstrates the relationship between age
of the respondents and their recognition about the
negative effect of long calls and cell telephone. Chisquare esteem demonstrates a non-critical
relationship between age of the respondents and
their discernment about negative effect of long
calls and cellular telephone. Gamma value also
shows no relationship between the variables.
Chosen understudies had no an extensive contrast
between their ages so the affiliation is in-huge. So
the speculation "Higher the age of the respondents,
higher will be the discernment about the negative
effect of long calls and cellular telephone" is
rejected.
Respondents’ perception about the negative
impact of long and calls and mobile phone
and folks (Geser 2006). The inquiry emerges why
these organizations are presenting these bundles
without the social preparation to check the outlook
of the adolescent. It is safe to say that they are
attempting to encourage the normal man or just
youth? I think with the exception of on extremely
critical events normally nobody might want to talk
after 12 pm (Waqar 2009).
METHODOLOGY
This research study is based on primary data. The
present study was conducted in Faisalabad,
Pakistan. The time of respondents in the present
study spoke the truth 19 to 24 years of age and
were living in Faisalabad. With the end goal of
quantitative investigation, information were
gathered through very much sorted out meeting
calendar comprised of both close end and open
finished inquiries in regards to the examination
targets. Data was entered in MS Excel work sheet
and then coded. The coded data was exported to
SSPS for the analysis and considered this data for
qualitative analysis. Software that was used for
data analysis was SPSS Windows Version 15 was
used for the analysis. Univariate analysis, bivariate
analysis and Chi Square techniques were to achieve
the study objectives. This analysis technique was
used to find the socio-economic characteristics of
the respondents and the effects of mobile phone
night packages on l youth in district Faisalabad. (Bivariate analysis): This section deals the relationship
among various socio-economic characteristics of
the respondents and their perception about the
negative impact of long calls and mobile phone.
RESULTS
Hypothesis 1: Higher the age of the respondents,
higher will be the recognition about the negative
effect of long calls and cell telephones
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
High
Medium
Low
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
19-20
21-22
23-24
Age of the respondents (in years)
Fig.1 Association between age of respondents and their
perception about negative impact of late call pacakges
and mobile phone
Hypothesis 2: Higher education of respondensts,
higher will be the perception about negative impact
of late call packages and mobile phone.
Table. 2: Relationship between the Time of
Respondents and their Recognition about Negative
Effect generally Call Bundles and Cell Telephone
Educatio
Respondents’ perception
Total
n of the about the negative impact of
responde
mobile phone
rs
Low
Medium
High
Primary16
6
4
26
Middle
61.5%
23.1%
15.4% 100.0%
Matric
4
36
30
70
5.7%
51.4%
42.9% 100.0%
Above
4
10
10
24
matric
16.7%
41.7%
41.7% 100.0%
Total
24
52
44
120
20.0%
43.3%
36.7% 100.0%
Chi-square = 37.35
d.f. = 4
Significance = .000**
Gamma =.426
** = Highly-Significant
Table 2 demonstrates the relationship between
training of the respondents and their recognition
about the negative effect of long calls and cell
telephone. Chi-square esteem demonstrates a
profoundly critical relationship between instruction
of the respondents and their discernment about
negative effect of long calls and cellular telephone.
284
Respondents’ perception about the negative
impact of long and calls and mobile phone
Gamma worth shows solid positive relationship
between the variables. It implies training of the
respondents is emphatically connected with their
observation about the negative effect long calls and
of cellular telephone. So the speculation "Higher
the instruction of the respondents, higher will be
the discernment about the negative effect of long
calls and cell telephone" is acknowledged.
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
High
Medium
Low
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Primary-Middle
Matric
Above matric
Education of the respondents
Fig.2 Relationship between training of respondents and
their observation about negative effect recently call
pacakges and cell telephone
Consequences for Later Patterns of
Phone Usage and Involvement. Sociology
in Switzerland: Sociology of
the Mobile
phone.
Retrieved
from
http://socio.ch/mobile/t_geser2.pdf
Javid, Muhammad, Muhammad Ashraf Malik, and
Aijaz Ahmed Gujjar
2011 Mobile Phone Culture and its
Psychological Impacts on Students'
Learning
at
the
University
Level. Language in India 11(2).
LSE
2006 The Mobile Life Youth Report 2006:
The Impact of the Mobile Phone on the
Lives of Young People. The London School
of
Economics.
http://iis.yougov.co.uk/extranets/ygarchive
s/content/pdf/cpw060101004_2.pdf
CONCLUSION
Social observers rightly brought up the way the
calling bundles are advertised as making prompting
in youth to utilize the administration adversely The
component of sentiment is depicted adequately to
advance the night call bundles in notices. The
telecom controller, PTA, has been noiseless on the
issue when it is raised with the reason of
constrained forces, saying the area to check the
substance of notices is identified with Pakistan
Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA).It is
proposed that the folks ought to observing their
kids during the evening and completion their
security. PEMRA ought to open its eyes and boycott
a wide range of notice that set negative patterns in
the general public after all it is matter of our young
era, which is the fate of the country.
REFERENCES
Express Tribune
2011 Pakistan 5th in Asian Mobile Phone
Users. Published in The Express Tribune,
July
28th,
2011.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/218713/pakist
an-5th-in-asian-mobile-phone-users/
Ling, Rich
2002 Adolescent Girls and Young
Adult Men: Two Sub-cultures of the
Mobile Telephone. Revista de Estudios de
juventud 52: 33-46.
Geser, Hans
2006
© 2015“The Explorer Islamabad” Journal of Social Sciences-Pakistan
Safdar, Hina
2010 Should Late Night Call Packages be
Banned? Business, Current Affairs, Life
Style,
Technology.
http://www.chowrangi.com/should-latenight-call-packages-be-banned.html
Waqar, Zee
2009 Impact of Mobile Phones on our
Youth. Hubpages, June 20, 2009.
http://zeewaqar77.hubpages.com/hub/Imp
act-of-mobile-phones-on-our-youth
Yasir, Muhammad
2012 Mobile Phone Connections Surge to
119.86
Million.
http://felec.blogspot.com/2012/07/mobilephone-connections-surge-to-11986.html
Pre-teen Cell Phone Adoption:
285
ISSN: 2411-0132(E), 2411-5487(P)
Vol-1, Issue (8):283-285
www.theexplorerpak.org
SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF MOBILE PHONE AND NIGHT PACKAGES ON YOUTH IN
DISTRICT FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN
Ashar Sultan Kayani
Student of Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Corresponding Author:
Ashar Sultan Kayani
Institute of agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad
[email protected]
Abstract: In a short time cell phone got its fame among the younger generations. In Asia, Pakistan is on 5th rank in
mobile phone users. All the phone organizations in Pakistan are putting forth appealing late night call bundles that are
extremely mainstream maybe for the reason that they are simple on the pocket. The aim of present study to find out
the socio-economic effects of long late night calls packages on youth in District Faisalabad. Information was gathered by
utilizing Multistage inspecting strategy. Factual Package for Social Sciences were utilized for information investigation. A
large number of the respondents i.e. 68.3 percent used mobile phone to keep in contact with their friends and family.
Long call night packages had many negative effect on youth i.e. Poor sleeping habit (35.0%), less time for education
(25.8%) and Motivate risky sexual behavior (20.8%). It is proposed that all telecom administrators to boycott
throughout the night call bundle administrations with quick impact.
Key Words: Night Packages, Telecom, Cell Phones, Socio-Economic
INTRODUCTION
Cellular telephone is a phone that does not have
wires and works by radio that can be conveyed with
to utilize all over the place. Cell telephone society
ventured in the place where there is Pakistan after
1990s yet cell telephone got its distinction after
1994 after the foundation of some cell systems.
European Union's in-house measurable office
assessed that around 3.3 billion individuals of the
aggregate world populace were utilizing cell
telephones by November 2007. This figure is relied
upon to increment to 90% by the year 2010 (Javed,
et al. 2011). Pakistan ranks 5th in Asia in mobile
phone users as more than 100 million people are
using mobile phones in the country. According to
statistics released by the PTA, the number of
mobile phone users in Pakistan has reached 131
million (Express Tribune 2011). The aftereffects of
study directed in Norway demonstrates that the 16
years of age individuals have a 100% cellular
telephone ownership and in 2001 just 20% of the
youngsters having a place with the age gathering of
16 year old had cellular telephones. Like the wallets
mobile phone has turned into an extremely vital
thing (Ling 2001). The clients of PDAs throughout
the world are expanding both in the urban
communities and in addition in the rustic ranges
because of the enthusiasm of the endeavors of the
administration giving organizations. It has been
found that in 2011-2012 the clients have acquired
119.860 million associations (Yasir 2012). Alluring
elements alongside web office. The adolescent is,
currently occupied in using the administrations of
face book and twitter – the informal communities
for the individuals to share and trade their thoughts
and sentiments. The cell organizations have
presented night bundles for the clients and we are
mindful that the cell organizations have presented
night bundles for the client. The individuals from
distinctive strolls of life are raising their voices by
means of broad communications and print media
so as to stop such sorts of the offers gave by the
cell organizations on the grounds that the eventual
fate of the young is in question. The commonplace
gathering of the Punjab Province has passed a
determination that the late night bundles offered
by the phone organizations ought to be banned in
light of the fact that they are ruining the adolescent
youth The tagline used by the Jazz is “rat schru bat
schru”; Zem, “infinite craze”; Djuice, “jagtay raho”;
etc (Safdar 2010). The exploration has
demonstrated that 78% of the respondents are of
the supposition that PDAs give them better
comprehension of life in light of the fact that they
can stay associated with their companions, relatives
and folks (LSE 2006). The exploration has
demonstrated that 78% of the respondents are of
the supposition that PDAs give them better
comprehension of life in light of the fact that they
can stay associated with their companions, relatives
283
Table. 1: Age of the Respondents and Negative Effect of
Cellular Telephone
Age
Respondents'
Total
Groups
acknowledgment about the
negative effect of long and
calls and cell telephone
Low
Medium
High
19-20
8
8
12
28
28.6%
28.6%
42.9%
100.0%
21-22
12
32
26
70
17.1%
45.7%
37.1%
100.0%
23-24
4
12
6
22
18.2%
54.5%
27.3%
100.0%
Total
24
52
44
120
20.0%
43.3%
36.7%
100.0%
Chi-square = 4.31
Significance = .385NS
NS = Non-Significant
d.f = 4
Gamma= -.045
Table 1 demonstrates the relationship between age
of the respondents and their recognition about the
negative effect of long calls and cell telephone. Chisquare esteem demonstrates a non-critical
relationship between age of the respondents and
their discernment about negative effect of long
calls and cellular telephone. Gamma value also
shows no relationship between the variables.
Chosen understudies had no an extensive contrast
between their ages so the affiliation is in-huge. So
the speculation "Higher the age of the respondents,
higher will be the discernment about the negative
effect of long calls and cellular telephone" is
rejected.
Respondents’ perception about the negative
impact of long and calls and mobile phone
and folks (Geser 2006). The inquiry emerges why
these organizations are presenting these bundles
without the social preparation to check the outlook
of the adolescent. It is safe to say that they are
attempting to encourage the normal man or just
youth? I think with the exception of on extremely
critical events normally nobody might want to talk
after 12 pm (Waqar 2009).
METHODOLOGY
This research study is based on primary data. The
present study was conducted in Faisalabad,
Pakistan. The time of respondents in the present
study spoke the truth 19 to 24 years of age and
were living in Faisalabad. With the end goal of
quantitative investigation, information were
gathered through very much sorted out meeting
calendar comprised of both close end and open
finished inquiries in regards to the examination
targets. Data was entered in MS Excel work sheet
and then coded. The coded data was exported to
SSPS for the analysis and considered this data for
qualitative analysis. Software that was used for
data analysis was SPSS Windows Version 15 was
used for the analysis. Univariate analysis, bivariate
analysis and Chi Square techniques were to achieve
the study objectives. This analysis technique was
used to find the socio-economic characteristics of
the respondents and the effects of mobile phone
night packages on l youth in district Faisalabad. (Bivariate analysis): This section deals the relationship
among various socio-economic characteristics of
the respondents and their perception about the
negative impact of long calls and mobile phone.
RESULTS
Hypothesis 1: Higher the age of the respondents,
higher will be the recognition about the negative
effect of long calls and cell telephones
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
High
Medium
Low
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
19-20
21-22
23-24
Age of the respondents (in years)
Fig.1 Association between age of respondents and their
perception about negative impact of late call pacakges
and mobile phone
Hypothesis 2: Higher education of respondensts,
higher will be the perception about negative impact
of late call packages and mobile phone.
Table. 2: Relationship between the Time of
Respondents and their Recognition about Negative
Effect generally Call Bundles and Cell Telephone
Educatio
Respondents’ perception
Total
n of the about the negative impact of
responde
mobile phone
rs
Low
Medium
High
Primary16
6
4
26
Middle
61.5%
23.1%
15.4% 100.0%
Matric
4
36
30
70
5.7%
51.4%
42.9% 100.0%
Above
4
10
10
24
matric
16.7%
41.7%
41.7% 100.0%
Total
24
52
44
120
20.0%
43.3%
36.7% 100.0%
Chi-square = 37.35
d.f. = 4
Significance = .000**
Gamma =.426
** = Highly-Significant
Table 2 demonstrates the relationship between
training of the respondents and their recognition
about the negative effect of long calls and cell
telephone. Chi-square esteem demonstrates a
profoundly critical relationship between instruction
of the respondents and their discernment about
negative effect of long calls and cellular telephone.
284
Respondents’ perception about the negative
impact of long and calls and mobile phone
Gamma worth shows solid positive relationship
between the variables. It implies training of the
respondents is emphatically connected with their
observation about the negative effect long calls and
of cellular telephone. So the speculation "Higher
the instruction of the respondents, higher will be
the discernment about the negative effect of long
calls and cell telephone" is acknowledged.
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
High
Medium
Low
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Primary-Middle
Matric
Above matric
Education of the respondents
Fig.2 Relationship between training of respondents and
their observation about negative effect recently call
pacakges and cell telephone
Consequences for Later Patterns of
Phone Usage and Involvement. Sociology
in Switzerland: Sociology of
the Mobile
phone.
Retrieved
from
http://socio.ch/mobile/t_geser2.pdf
Javid, Muhammad, Muhammad Ashraf Malik, and
Aijaz Ahmed Gujjar
2011 Mobile Phone Culture and its
Psychological Impacts on Students'
Learning
at
the
University
Level. Language in India 11(2).
LSE
2006 The Mobile Life Youth Report 2006:
The Impact of the Mobile Phone on the
Lives of Young People. The London School
of
Economics.
http://iis.yougov.co.uk/extranets/ygarchive
s/content/pdf/cpw060101004_2.pdf
CONCLUSION
Social observers rightly brought up the way the
calling bundles are advertised as making prompting
in youth to utilize the administration adversely The
component of sentiment is depicted adequately to
advance the night call bundles in notices. The
telecom controller, PTA, has been noiseless on the
issue when it is raised with the reason of
constrained forces, saying the area to check the
substance of notices is identified with Pakistan
Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA).It is
proposed that the folks ought to observing their
kids during the evening and completion their
security. PEMRA ought to open its eyes and boycott
a wide range of notice that set negative patterns in
the general public after all it is matter of our young
era, which is the fate of the country.
REFERENCES
Express Tribune
2011 Pakistan 5th in Asian Mobile Phone
Users. Published in The Express Tribune,
July
28th,
2011.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/218713/pakist
an-5th-in-asian-mobile-phone-users/
Ling, Rich
2002 Adolescent Girls and Young
Adult Men: Two Sub-cultures of the
Mobile Telephone. Revista de Estudios de
juventud 52: 33-46.
Geser, Hans
2006
© 2015“The Explorer Islamabad” Journal of Social Sciences-Pakistan
Safdar, Hina
2010 Should Late Night Call Packages be
Banned? Business, Current Affairs, Life
Style,
Technology.
http://www.chowrangi.com/should-latenight-call-packages-be-banned.html
Waqar, Zee
2009 Impact of Mobile Phones on our
Youth. Hubpages, June 20, 2009.
http://zeewaqar77.hubpages.com/hub/Imp
act-of-mobile-phones-on-our-youth
Yasir, Muhammad
2012 Mobile Phone Connections Surge to
119.86
Million.
http://felec.blogspot.com/2012/07/mobilephone-connections-surge-to-11986.html
Pre-teen Cell Phone Adoption:
285
