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Statistical Analysis Of Road Accidents
[A CASE IN ENUGU STATE FROM 1993 TO 2000]
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1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This
study would help the government, the general public, the Nigerian
Police Force, the Federal Road Safety Commission and other agencies
concerned with safety on our roads in the following ways:
1.
It will help the Federal Road Safety Commission and other authorities
concerned with similar assignment to assess their performance over the
years.
2. It will help the Federal and state governments
particularly Enugu State to articulate policies on road transportation
and safety, such policies will form the basis of planning the
socio-economic infrastructure necessary to ensure safety and enhance the
performance of road users.
3. it will help the Federal
Road, Safety Commission and other institutions concerned organizing
sensitization workshop on seminars programmes for road users ascertain
the positive impact of such workshop or seminar being organized.
4. It will awaken the sense of responsibility of road users and government.
5.
It will help reduce or put to a stop the ill attitude poster by some of
the law enforcement agencies (the Nigerian Police N20 syndrome)
hindering the reduction of road accident.
1.5 SOURCES OF DATA COLLECTION
The
data used for this project work were collected internally in secondary
form. Secondary data imply statistical materials or information not
originated or obtained by the investigator himself, but obtain from
someone’s record or published source such as the central bank,
government agencies and non-governmental duties such as universities,
research institutes etc. The data were however, provided by Federal
Office of Statistics (FOS) Enugu Division and the Federal Road Safety
Commission, Enugu Sector Command.
1.6 PROBLEMS OF THE DATA COLLECTION
The
problems encountered during collection of data cannot all be stated
here. This research work posed a lot of problems. Since the researcher
did not originally collect the data, there was mistrust between the
primary users and the secondary user of the data. It took me a lot of
money, time and energy traveling from my destination to the office of
the Federal Office of Statistics (FOS) and that of the Federal Road
Safety Commission all in Enugu, so as to get the relevant data for this
research work. This made me to miss most of my lecture hours and also
disappointed my supervisor Mr. Pius Ugwu by not coming when I promised
to see him several times.
It was very difficult to collect the
relevant data from these offices because they said that they couldn’t
release the data for security reasons. But after presenting letters
from my Department Head Mr. Nwagbara G.P. dated 4th July, 2005, the
desired information was given to me.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This project is in compliance with one of the task, I have to shoulder in order to be awarded the Higher National Diploma Certificate in statistics department from Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, during my final year in the Polytechnic 2004/2005 session emphasizing on Statistical Analysis of Road Accident in Enugu from 1993 to 2000.Road accident has been of great social and economic concern. It has became a total topic for scientific investigation. The number of deaths on th ... Continue reading---
