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The Score Card Approach Method of Evaluation of Public Awareness About E-Waste Hazards in Lagos State


 This study was carried out to evaluate the level of awareness of Lagos State residents about e-waste health hazards. Data were collected through the distribution of 424 well-structured and Likert scaled questionnaire with respondents selected based on the proportionate sampling. Unlike the common categorisation of awareness level as either Low or High based on the independent variables like age, sex, educational qualifications; and dependent variables like regulations, mode of disposal of e-wastes, information sources etc, this study adopted the scorecard approach to determine the awareness level in its totality and specific term as either Very Low - 1 or Low - 2 or Moderate - 3 or High - 4 or Very High - 5 in order of categorisation. On the final analysis, the result revealed a score of '2' which implies that the level of awareness is Low. Significance tests were also carried out to examine if any significant differences exist among the respondents based on their gender, age and educational level with respect to the hazardous elements contain in e-waste. The study revealed that statistically, no significant difference exists between the awareness levels of male and female regarding e-waste hazards; no statistically significant difference exists between the awareness levels of respondents about e-waste hazards based on their educational qualifications but there was a statistically significant difference between respondents' ages regarding e-waste hazards.