Review Article

Livelihood of Street Children and the Role of Social Intervention: Insights from Literature Using Meta-Analysis

Table 6

ANOVA results for the different criteria of street children from 31 studies (unweighted).

CriteriaGroupLabelGroup sizeMeanMean t-test

Living on the street1Africa1044.610.020.0316547.28
2Rest1044.37(0.99)(15.51)(15.51)(3.80)
Literate1Africa1778.7711878.70
2Rest1053.58(0.01)(25.00)(15.51)(3.80)
Girls1Africa2136.741.3315499.59
2Rest1326.87(0.19)(30.14)(19.68)(3.80)
Daily labourer1Africa1048.66−0.060.199124.31
2Rest949.27(0.95)(15.51)(14.07)(3.80)

Note. Significant at the 0.05 level of significance.