CHAPTER 4

RESULTS

This chapter presents the research findings of the data collected from the respondents. The
main source of data is the survey questionnaire. The results will be presented in relation to
the research questions stated in chapter 1. The method used to analyze the data is already
discussed in chapter three, the methodology chapter.

4.1. Demographic Data

a. Present data gathered from the respondents’ profile part of your questionnaire.

b. Presented data should prove that you have the right respondents for the study and that they
are the credible source of your data.

c. If doing quantitative, separate data for each info category like gender, age etc, if doing
qualitative, you may put them all together in one data presentation

4.1.1 Gender

Reminder:

 The narrative discussion is simply the table or figure put into words/sentences/
paragraph
 Always refer to the table or figure in your paragraph discussion

Table 4.1 below elaborates gender distribution of this research sample size with a total
respondent of 184. Among those 184, 54% or 99 respondents were male, and 46% or 85
respondents were female. A 7.6% gap between the numbers of male over female respondent
indicates that the research had a good response distribution between both genders.

Table 4.1:

Respondents’ Gender Profile

Gender Frequency Percentage

1. Male 99 54 %

2. Female 85 46 %

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 TOTAL 184 100 %

4.1.2 Business Background

Table 4.2 below elaborates Business Background of our respondents. It is shown that
only 64 respondents, which is around 34.8% of total respondents, are the ones who used to
own or are currently owning business. The other 120 respondents which account for 65.2% of
the total respondents said they have never owned or are not owning any business.

Table 4.2:

Respondents’ Business Background

Business Background Frequency Percentage

1. Have/currently own a business 64 34.8 %

2. Never own a business 120 65.2 %

TOTAL 185 100 %

4.2. Research Findings

As mentioned earlier in the introduction part, three research questions were asked in this
paper in order to get the responses to the research objective. In this part, the data received
from the questionnaire were used to answer to the three questions.

4.2.1. What is the level by which respondents are influenced by certain factors in the
selection of academic majors? Usually, a question referring to your independent variable

Table 4.5 below illustrated the level by which Personal Beliefs, Personal Values, Personal
Morals, Personal Interests, and Personal Factors influence the selection of academic majors
of Phnom Penh university students.

Results showed that respondents generally agree that personal beliefs (4.04, agree), personal
values (3.50, agree), personal morals (3.50, agree), personal interests (4.32, agree), and
personal factors (4.02, agree) influence the selection of the academic majors. These results
indicated that students themselves have the influences on their choice of academic major and
the personal interests (4.32) receive the highest level of agreement.

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Based on these results, the General Weighted Average (GWA) was 3.88 which is translated
to “agree”, meaning that Personal Factors have the influences on the selection of academic
majors of Phnom Penh university students.

Table 4.5:

Respondents’ Level of Agreement on Personal Factors Influencing Selection of Academic

Majors

Weighted
Indicators Qualitative Value
Average

1. Personal Beliefs 2.53 Neutral

2. Personal Values 3.50 Agree
3. Personal Morals 3.50 Agree
4. Personal Interests 4.32 Agree
5. Personal Factors 4.02 Agree

G.W.A 3.88 Agree

4.2.2. What is the level by which Family Factors influence the selection of academic
majors of Phnom Penh university students? Usually, a question referring to your
dependent variable

Table 4.6 below demonstrated the level by which Immediate Family’s Decision, Relatives’
Advices, Family Members are also into it, Relative are also into it, and Family Factors
influence the selection of academic majors of Phnom Penh university students.

Results showed that respondents neither agree nor disagree that immediate family’s decision
(3.26, neutral), relatives’ advices (2.05, disagree), family members are also into it (2.90,
neutral), relatives are also into it (2.52, neutral), and family factors (3.15, neutral) influence
the selection of the academic majors. While respondents were generally neutral about the
family factors influence the choice of academic majors, relatives’ advices (2.05) received the
lowest level of agreement and family factors (3.15) received the highest level of agreement.

Upon these results, the General Weighted Average (GWA) was 2.78 which is translated to
“neutral”, meaning that Family Factors neither have or do not have the influences on the
selection of academic majors of Phnom Penh university students.

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Table 4.6:

Respondents’ Level of Agreement on Family Factors Influencing Selection of Academic

Majors

Family Factors Weighted Average Qualitative Value

1. Immediate Family’s Decision 3.26 Neutral

2. Relatives’ Advices 2.05 Disagree
3. Family Members are also into it 2.90 Neutral
4. Relatives are also into it 2.52 Neutral
5. Family Factors 3.15 Neutral

G.W.A 2.78 Neutral

4.2.3. What is the significant relationship between employees’ knowledge on tax on salary
and tax compliance? Usually, a question about your hypothesis (relationship between your
independent and dependent variable)
Related to research question number 3, the following Null Hypothesis (H0) was considered.

H0: There is no significant relationship between employees’ knowledge of tax

on salary and tax compliance.

Figure 4.10 below shows Pearson Correlation Coefficient analysis for the relationship
between Employees’ Knowledge of Tax on Salary and their Tax Compliance. Pearson
Correlation Coefficient test result is -0.524 which is between -0.51 – -0.70, interpreted to be
of Moderately Negative Correlation in the correlation table. This means that there is a
moderately negative relationship between employees’ knowledge on tax on salary
(Independent variable) and tax compliance (Dependent Variable). Thus, the null hypothesis
is rejected.

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Table 4.10

Correlation between Employees’ Knowledge of Tax on Salary and Tax Compliance (all
respondents)

Variables p-value r correlation Interpretation

Knowledge of Salary Tax- < .00001 0.6231 Moderately Positive

Tax Compliance Correlation

*The P-Value is < .00001. The result is significant at p < .05.

4.3. Summary of the Finding

To sum up, this chapter had illustrated the results of the finding in form of descriptive method
along with tables provided for better understanding. Demographic Data, such as age and
gender, were shown at the beginning of this chapter. Then General Weighted Average
(GWA) were provided to answer to the research questions. Moreover, the GWA of each
factor was also separated based on gender of the respondents in order to find out the
intervening effect of gender on factors influencing the selection of academic majors. The
finding showed that there was no intervening effect of gender on factors influencing the
selection of academic majors of Phnom Penh university students.

Further discussion of these findings will be discussed in the next chapter (Chapter V).

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