The Impact of Socio-economic Characteristics of School Teachers on their Job Performance

Abstract

The study underhand is aimed to estimate the impact of socioeconomic characteristics of school teachers on their job performance. The data were collected by using well-structured and pre-tested questionnaire. A sample of 200 respondents from ESTs elementary school female teachers were selected through simple random sampling technique from tehsil Vehari. Descriptive statistics i.e. frequency, percentage and mean values were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the teacher performance was depending on many factors i.e. free accommodation, weekly duty allowances, advance payment from the school in case of financial problem, provision of prizes, provision of free medical care and a satisfactory standard of living. The result also showed that the salary and financial benefits have high impact on teachers’ performance. The results also found significant impact of socioeconomic characteristics on teacher’s performance