In statistics, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, named after Charles Spearman, assesses how well relationship between two variables can be described using a monotonic function. Spearman’s Rho is a non-parametric test used to measure the strength of association between two variables, where the value r=1 means a perfect positive correlation and the value r= -1 means a perfect negative correlation. Because spearman’s rho represents a descriptive measures of association, it can be used as a test statistic for the null hypothesis that x and y are not related, that is, x and y are independent, versus the alternative hypothesis that there is a positive relationship between the total number of points scored.
An online survey will be conducted to collect data. The survey will be separated in 3 sections regarding “Household Attitude in Waste Management”, “Household Subjective Norms in Waste Management” and “Household Perceived Behavioural Control in Waste Management” where the participants will be asked to respond to the questions on a 5-point rating scale (Ayu et al., 2018) (Ajzen, 1991).
The first section of the questionnaire consists of 20 questions regarding the attitude of the participants regarding waste management using interval scales with “Strongly Disagree”, “Disagree”, “Neither”, “Agree” and “Strongly Agree” as answer possibilities. This section aims to assess data on the attitude and mindset towards waste management. There will be 20 questions asked in this section (see Appendix 1.1) (Ayu et al., 2018).
The second section of the questionnaire consists of 20 questions regarding the subjective norms of the participants regarding waste management using interval scales with “Strongly Disagree”, “Disagree”, “Neither”, “Agree” and “Strongly Agree” as answer possibilities. This section aims to assess data on the perceived social pressure to engage in waste management. There will be 20 questions asked in this section (see Appendix 1.2) (Ayu et al., 2018).
The third and final section of the questionnaire consists of 20 questions regarding the perceived behavioural control of the participants regarding waste management also using intervals scales with “Strongly Disagree”, “Disagree”, “Neither”, “Agree” and “Strongly Agree” as answer possibilities. This section aims to assess data on the perceived ability to engage in waste management. There will be 20 questions asked in this section (see Appendix 1.3) (Ayu et al., 2018).
In order to analyse the relationship between the independent variable (the Netherlands) and the dependent variable (waste management), methods of Person’s correlation will be
