CHAPTER ONE

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
This project work is about the statistical analysis on the consumption of cigarette and alcoholic drinks in tertiary institution (A case study of Federal Polytechnic Nekede). It consists of five chapters. Chapter one deals with the preliminary part, which includes significance of study, aims and objectives, scope of the study, sources of data and problem encountered during data collection.
Chapter two deals with review of related literature that is previous researches relating to the study. Chapter three deals with research methodology which includes sources of data, sampling frame, method of data collection, reason for stratification, pilot survey, method of distributing questionnaires for main survey, the general format for Chi-square using contingency table among others.
Chapter four deal with analysis involving frequency distribution bar and pie charts, estimation of the student average weekly expenditure on drinking and smoking, to determine whether the expenditure rate on drinking is due to age, to find out if the student opinion on the effects of smoking is independent of drinking habits and so on. Chapter five deals with summary, conclusion and recommendation.

1.2 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
Despite all the advertisement from the Federal Ministry of Health, television programmes and lectures from seminars about the dangers of alcoholism and cigarette smoking, a reasonable number of people in the society still indulge in this habit.
This study will investigate the extent of student indulgence in smoking/drinking as well as examine the students’ expenditure on consumption of these consumer items.
The outcome of this investigation will serve as a deterrent factor to non-consumer students who have the intention of starting it. It will also help the school authority to avoid setting up kiosks around the school premises where such items are being sold.

1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The following are what the researcher work intends to achieve.

1. To determine the extent of alcoholism and cigarette smoking among the students of Federal Polytechnic Nekede.
2. To determine the popularity of various brands of alcohol and cigarette Among the students consumer of the products.
3. To estimate students average weekly expenditure on drinking and Smoking.
4. To determine whether the rate on drinking and smoking is due to age.
5. To find out if the students opinions on the effects of smoking and Drinking is independent of their habits.
6. To determine it students drinking and smoking habits are independent.
7. To make suggestions and recommendation based on the findings.

1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study covers all the 2007 /2008 regular students of the Federal polytechnic Nekede, Owerri Imo State. Hence the target population consists of all the students of various departments excluding all the preliminary students and evening students.
Secondly, due to some resources, time and financial constraints, and for the reason that it will be laborious to carry out the survey on the entire population of all the students in a sample of the population will be considered.

1.5 PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED
It will be helpful to enumerate some of the problems the researcher encountered during the survey.
There was a problem of refusal and loss of questionnaires. Some students refused to fill the questionnaires claiming that they do not have time. Some respondents decided to go home with ones allocated to them and refused to bring them back.
The researcher finds it difficult to distribute, the questionnaires to the particular level of student he is researching for.
Some respondent completed the questionnaires wrongly. Some ticked more than one option where only one option was required. While some filled in unrelated replies to the spaces provided, thereby making the questionnaire invalid.
Some respondents returned the questionnaires very late.