EVOLVEMENT OF THE STANDARD SCALE TO APPRAISE THE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE OF HOMEMAKERS REGARDING HOUSEHOLD WASTE MANAGEMENT.

Waste management is all the activities that required to manage waste from its origin to its final disposal. There are a number of concepts about household waste management which vary in their usage between rural and urban zones of different countries. For appropriate household waste management it’s essential that homemakers should have knowledge about types of waste, segregation of waste, means of waste and 3R i.e. reducing, reusing and recycling of household waste. In the present study the scale was evolved to appraise the current knowledge of homemakers regarding household waste management. The reliability, difficulty index and discrimination index were analysed on 470 respondents to formulate the standardized scale. The scale was divided into two groups of household waste segregation and household waste disposal. Initially there were 48 statements with the .86 reliability. Statements with high difficulty index and low discrimination index were eliminated from the scale and that resulted into the increase of the reliability of the scale. Finally the scale was evolved with 28 statements in total that consisted of 12statements in segregation of household waste and 16 statements in disposal of household waste and with .89 reliability of the scale.