Public awareness on urban child poverty in Georgetown, Penang / Siti Aisyah Md Sidek and Amirah lsmahani lsmady Putra

This research been conducted to understand the level of awareness on urban child poverty at the same time help in increasing the awareness of urban child poverty on Georgetown, Penang Design/method/approach- This study been conducted based on quantitative measurement. The researcher had selected Georgetown, Penang as location on conducting the studies. Total of 384 respondents had been selected to come out on research finding. This research is to studies 5 objectives of research. This research finding had been gained by the research by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Based on data that been collect and the result that been gain researcher had used three approach studies in SPSS which are descriptive analysis, Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression. Finding- Based on the finding that researcher had finding the first research objective which is to know the level of awareness of public in Georgetown, Penang. Thus, the result of this first objective show there is moderate level of public awareness on urban child poverty in Georgetown, Penang. Furthermore, for second
to fourth objective the researcher had found there are three factors of independent variable and one dependence variable. Where, the result of the studies there are only two variable had significant relation and one are not significant. Based on result that come out public attitude and public action had showed a significant relation with the dependent variable whereas public knowledge does not have significant relationship with public awareness. Lastly, the fifth research objective, based on finding there are at least one of independent variable had a significant relationship
with dependent variable. Thus, the public attitude shows highest value on the relationship with dependent variable.