Proposal - Expenditure Pattern of Students on Sim Usage and Communication

Proposal On

Expenditure Pattern of Students on SIM Usage and Communication:

A Study on IBA MBA, University of Dhaka

Submitted to:

Mr. Md. Farhan Imtiaz

Lecturer

Course: Business Statistics (K 502)

Submitted by:

Anindita Chowdhury Rini- 14

Laila Afreen-22

Zahidul Haque Ayon- 19

Md. Fahim Ferdous-15

Jobairul Alam- 45

MBA 51D

Date of Submission:

November 23, 2014

Institute of Business Administration

University of Dhaka

November 23, 2014

Mr. Md. Farhan Imtiaz

Lecturer

IBA, University of Dhaka

Dhaka

Dear Sir,

As you have assigned us to prepare a proposal for the course; Business Statistics (K 502), with reference to the course prescribed text, ‘Statistical Techniques in Business Economics’, we have chosen to do a study titled: “Expenditure pattern of students on SIM usage and communication: A study on IBA MBA, University of Dhaka”.

We have created the study plan and have decided on the appropriate groups to contact. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to submit the proposal. For further information, please feel free to contact us on 01754598256 or ferdousmd.fahim@gmail.com.

Sincerely yours,

Anindita Chowdhury Rini- 14

Laila Afreen-22

Zahidul Haque Ayon- 19

Md. Fahim Ferdous-15

Jobairul Alam- 45

Introduction

Purpose

The purpose of our proposal is to request authorization on the study of the Expenditure pattern of students on SIM usage and communication: A study on IBA MBA, University of Dhaka. The basic idea is to draw an assumption on the amount of time and money spends on the mobile phone communication of IBA BA students.  

Problem

The rate of talking and the inevitable consequence on the daily life situation is turning out to be a more predictable problem day by day. Students are using mobile phone both on the study purposes and on the other purposes as well. The problem occurs when the other purpose precedes the study purpose or the daily life purpose.  

Background

The emergence of mobile phone opened a new era in front of the Bangladeshi people. At first the price was too costly so people could not afford to buy something like this. But later on the set price plus the call price has decreased. So every kind of people got the chance to purchase a mobile phone. But due to availability students sometimes get distracted and they spend a lot of time on mobile phone. As a result they spend a lot of money and eventually the impact is seen on the result and on the economic condition of the family.  

Literature review:

Lepp, Barkley ,and Karpinski (2014) have tried to draw a relationship between cell phone use, academic performance, anxiety, and Satisfaction with Life in college students. They have tried to show that how social circumstances get affected by the usage of mobile phone from the student’s perspective.  While functional differences between today’s cell phones and traditional computers are becoming less clear, one difference remains plain – cell phones are almost always on-hand and allow users to connect with an array of services and networks at almost any time and any place. The Pew Center’s Internet and American Life Project suggests that college students are the most rapid adopters of cell phone technology and research is emerging which suggests high frequency cell phone use may be influencing their health and behavior. Thus, they investigated the relationships between total cell phone use (N = 496) and texting (N = 490) on Satisfaction with Life (SWL) in a large sample of college students. Cell phone use/texting was negatively related to GPA and positively related to anxiety; in turn, GPA was positively related to SWL while anxiety was negatively related to SWL. These findings add to the debate about student cell phone use, and how increased use may negatively impact academic performance, mental health, and subjective well-being or happiness.

Kuznekoff and Titsworth (2013) have also worked on the impact of mobile phone usage on student learning. In this study, they examined the impact of mobile phone usage, during class lecture, on student learning. Participants in three different study groups (control, low-distraction, and high-distraction) watched a video lecture, took notes on that lecture, and took two learning assessments after watching the lecture. Students who were not using their mobile phones wrote down 62% more information in their notes, took more detailed notes, were able to recall more detailed information from the lecture, and scored a full letter grade and a half higher on a multiple choice test than those students who were actively using their mobile phones. Theoretical and pedagogical implications are discussed.

Sahin, Ozdemir, Unsal, and Temiz (2013) have done a medical research regarding Evaluation of mobile phone addiction level and sleep quality in university students. To determine the mobile phone addiction level in university students, to examine several associated factors and to evaluate the relation between the addiction level and sleep quality. The study is a cross-sectional research conducted on the students of the Sakarya University between 01 November 2012 and 01 February 2013. The study group included 576 students. The Problematic Mobile Phone Use Scale was used for evaluating the mobile phone addiction level and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index for assessing the sleep quality. Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test and Spearman’s Correlation Analysis were used for analyzing the data. The study group consisted of 296 (51.4%) females and 208 (48.6%) males. The mean age was 20.83 ± 1.90 years (min:17, max:28). The addiction level was determined to be higher in the second-year students, those with poor family income, those with type A personality, those whose age for first mobile phone is 13 and below and those whose duration of daily mobile phone use is above 5 hours (p < 0.05 for each). The sleep quality worsens with increasing mobile phone addiction level (p < 0.05). The sleep quality worsens with increasing addiction level. It was concluded that referring the students with suspected addiction to advanced healthcare facilities, performing occasional scans for early diagnosis and informing the students about controlled mobile phone use would be useful.