SOLE BREADWINNERS NOW MINORITY IN NIGERIA

Households in which there are sole breadwinners putting food on the table is getting scarce in Nigeria. By 2015 only 24.9% of Nigerians were sole breadwinners.
That is according to one of the various findings of the Central Bank of Nigeria financial literacy baseline survey conducted in 2015. The report of the survey was released this week.
According to the report, 33.6% of the Nigerian male population are still sole breadwinners just like 16.1% of female Nigerians.
However, 55.8% of respondents to the survey actually now have household income contributed to or provided by more than one person.
Of the male 51.8% now have household income contributed to by more than one member while 62.4% of female respondents live with the same household arrangement.
If the findings of the survey turn out to be error free and reflect truly the larger population of the country, then only 18% of Nigerians by 2015 did not contribute to household income.
Interestingly for an African setting, 14.6% of male respondents were in this category of none contributors to household income. On the other hand, again against popular cultural perception  in many quarters, only 21.5% of female respondents did not contribute to household income.
Efforts were made to reduce error margin in the report to the barest minimum. According to the CBN, firstly the questionnaire was adapted from one that had been deployed successfully in a fellow African country, Tanzania.
Secondly, 30 clusters of 10 randomly selected enumeration areas in each state were selected for use in household survey.
Then for the baseline survey 12 households per each enumeration areas were randomly chosen for administration of the questionaire.
Finally within each household respondents were also randomly chosen provided they are 16 and above.
In the end, 13320 responses were recorded and this was cleaned to 13286 from which the report data was collated.
Involved in the survey were CBN department of statistics ; the National Bureau of Statistics; Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFinA) and Marketwarx Africa, originators of the Tanzanian questionaire.

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