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The Statistical Analysis Of Poverty As A Disease In Nigeria
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h) STATISTICAL ANALYSIS:
Is
defined as the scientific study, collection, compilation, analysis,
presentation and graphical representation of a given set of data.
i) STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF POVERTY AS A DISEASE:
This
is defined as the statistical analysis of the measures of human
deprivation that has as a disease engulfed the socioeconomic system, of a
society, and as a result has hindered human development and
socioeconomic development of the society.
j) CAUSES OF POVERTY:
This
is defined as the socioeconomic vices in a society, that causes or
leads to lack of, or inadequate access to the basic necessities of life
to an individual, or in a household or a society as a whole.
k) POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES:
According
to the Nigeria Millennium Development Goals (2005 report) this is
defined as programmes that have been formulated with certain policies
backing them by the Government, inorder to reduce the level of poverty
or completely eradicate poverty in a society like Nigeria. Examples of
such programmes are: National Poverty Eradication programme (NAPEP),
National economic empowerment, and development strategy (NEEDS), small
and medium scale investment equity insurance scheme (SMIEIS), among
others.
l) CONSTRAINTS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES:
These
are defined as certain factors that were not checked thoroughly by the
Government before the formulation of the policies and programmes of some
of the poverty alleviation programmes. This as a result has caused the
ineffectiveness, and inefficiency of the poverty alleviation programmes.
Examples of such factors include: poor coordination of programmes, lack
of consistent policy in governance, failure to involve the
beneficiaries at both the conception and implementation stages of the
programmes, among others.
1.14 SCOPE OF STUDY
The scope
involved in this study included laborious ones like the conducting of
census on a target population, for example: the core poor, moderately
poor, and the Non-poor and the administering of questionnaires to
collect microhousehold data as related to poverty levels in the zone,
and the use of suitable statistical techniques for analyzing the
collected data, by scholarly statisticians, inorder to provide reliable
results that are valid and objective in nature.
Another scope
involved, included the research made from books that highlighted
instances of poverty in certain areas of the zone.
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