LEDC Population Data - Nigeria - Case Study

Census - Describe how the data is collected

The Nigeria Census is conduced using door to door interviews and parts of the country have difficult terrain and poor infrastructure.

As a result, communities are omitted from the census.

Census - Positives

1.) Literacy levels are improving and there is greater access to media.

2.) The need to use data for overall benefit of the country rather than political favouritism has attracted considerable media coverage.

3.) There has been improvement towards infrastructure and transport.

4.) Nigerian government employed 500,000 officials make the 1991 Census more accurate.

What did the Nigerian government do to make the 1991 census more accurate?

1.) Nigerian government employed 500,000 officials make the 1991 Census more accurate.

2.) Used computers to collect and sort info (and detect cheating)

3.) Were given funds from other countries to help pay the cost for the census to run.

Census - Negatives

1.) There are over 500 additional indigenous languages are spoken in Nigeria - (English, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fulani).

2.) Literacy - total population 62%

3.) Difficult terrain - door to door = many omitted —> In 2006 45,000 people were omitted as they weren't on the official census map.

4.) Population below poverty line - 40.1%

5.) Many diverse Religious and Ethnic groups - Identity complexity & Political influence

6.) Population distribution - largest population of any African nation; the highest areas being in the south and southwest.

Vital Registration - Describe how the data is collected

Collected at key moment in life. - Births, Deaths, Marriages, Deaths

1.) Registration centers - central and local government

2.) Registration forms

Positives - How reliable is the data. collected? - VITAL REGISTRATION

1.) Vital registration has been made compulsory in Nigeria since 1970 but it was not until 1990 that a national policy was developed under the control of the PC.

2.) The NPC has produced data on live births, still births and age and cause of death.

Negatives - How reliable is the data. collected? - VITAL REGISTRATION

1.) Data collected by UNICEF indicates that there are still considerable variations between rural and urban areas in terms of completeness of vital registration of births.

3.) How does the Nigerian government make use of the data collected?

Flashcard of statistic uses of Census. - Health care, public services, jobs etc