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Keywords
Nigeria--Population; Nigeria--Census, 1963; Nigeria; Age distribution (Demography)--Nigeria; Age distribution (Demography); Population; 1963; Census data;
Abstract
This thesis explores and probes the reliability and the inconsistencies of Nigeria's 1963 census using the scanty information available through the microfilm on Nigeria's 1963 census. It uses the 25 provinces and some times, the four regions of Nigeria as the unit level of resolutions. This is the first attempt to discuss the age-sex structure of the whole country. The 1963 data set is subjected to series of testing to see if there is any valid relationship between the 1963 Nigeria demographic variables and those found in other advanced nations for which reliable information has been obtained by some population scholars such as: 1. Coulson in his Age Structure Index for Kansas City. 2. Turner with his Age Heaping Patterns for the U. S. 3. Mukherjee's Age Ratio Score, Sex Ratio Score and Joint Scores for India's population. 4. Vielrose's Graphical Analysis of Age Structure Patterns of 41 countries. There are some close relationships, in some cases, between my findings for Nigeria and those found elsewhere, such as, the Patterns of Age Heaping and the Age Structures. But on the other hand, some of my findings deviate considerably with those found elsewhere, such as, in the ARS, SRS and Joint Scores, etc. These could be due to the level of aggregation, whereas, the other experiments either make use of countries or cities as the unit of resolution while Nigeria consistently uses the 25 provinces within the country. This study makes use of both simple and multiple regression methods to predict certain demographic variables to provide for missing information like the CBR. It also utilizes the Correlation Analysis techniques to find the correlates of the three key variables, the core of this study (i.e. Age Structure Index, Fertility Ratio and Dependency Ratio). The second method of this data exploration is the Factor Analysis. The 160 1963 variables are split into two sets of age structure variables and socio-economic variables. Each is explored by the Correlation and Factor Analysis method. Four factor groupings resulted from the former while the latter produced eight factors. In some cases, the 1952 demographic variables are analyzed to see how some common variables behaved in 1952 as well as in 1963. Most cases resulted in dissimilarities, thus making comparison difficult. A final attempt is made to display the Spatial Distribution of Nigeria's 1963 Age Structure by the Factor Score method. The four factor score maps confirmed the four factor groupings in the previous analysis (i.e. Old Age, Young Adult, Middle Age and Very Old Age groups). This study is purely exploratory and, therefore, should be treated as tentative rather than confirmatory.
Year of Submission
1980
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Geography
First Advisor
Roy Chung
Second Advisor
Dhirendra Vajpeyi
Third Advisor
James Fryman
Date Original
1980
Object Description
1 PDF file (353 leaves)
Copyright
©1980 Julius Oladele Samuel Dada
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Dada, Julius Oladele Samuel, "Exploratory Data Analysis of Nigeria’s 1963 Age Structures" (1980). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2440.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2440
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