Nigeria - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICES GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY 2017, First round
Reference ID | NGA-NBS-HDI-2017-v1.0 |
Year | 2017 |
Country | Nigeria |
Producer(s) | National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) - Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) |
Sponsor(s) | United Nations Development Programme - UNDP - Funding |
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Created on | Jun 27, 2023 |
Last modified | Jun 28, 2023 |
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Overview
Identification
NGA-NBS-HDI-2017-v1.0 |
Version
Version 1.0: Anonymous dataset for public distribution 2017-11-08
Overview
Human development indicators, generally, provide the basis for quantitative assessment of the achievement of countries in all areas of human endeavour. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of human progress. It considers the average achievements in three basic dimensions of human development; a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The indicators considered in this document are composites of socio-economic factors appropriate for assessing human development achievements in each State of the Federation. Until 2010, HDI was defined as a simple arithmetic average of normalized indices in the dimensions of health, education and income. At the moment, life expectancy (le) remains the only indicator for the health dimension while the indicators for income and education were appropriately replaced.
The Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) adjusts the Human Development Index (HDI) for inequality in distribution of each dimension across the population. It is based on a distribution-sensitive class of composite indices proposed by Foster, Lopez-Calva, and Szekely (2005), which draws on the Atkinson (1970) family of inequality measures. It is computed as a geometric mean of geometric means, calculated across the population for each dimension separately (Alkire and Foster, 2010). The IHDI accounts for inequalities in HDI dimensions by “discounting” each dimension's average value according to its level of inequality. The IHDI equals the HDI when there is no inequality across people but is less than the HDI as inequality rises. In this sense, the IHDI is the actual level of human development (accounting for this inequality), while the HDI can be viewed as an index of “potential” human development (or the maximum level of HDI) that could be achieved if there was no inequality. The “loss” in potential human development due to inequality is given by the difference between the HDI and the IHDI and can be expressed as a percentage.
The new indices were: Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), and Gender Inequality Index (GII).
The recently UNDP Nigeria/NBS computed HDI, at state level, shows that Nigeria has an average HDI of 0.521. All the North East states have HDI scores below the national average; ranging from a high of 0.4286 in Taraba to a low of 0.3238 in Bauchi, a figure less than half that of Lagos state at 0.6515, the state with the
highest HDI score (see Annex 2 in the HDR 2018 report for detailed State level HDI computations).
Sample survey data [ssd]
Individuals
Scope
The scope of the Human Development Indices General Household Survey includes:Identification
Demographic Characteristics
Water and Sanitation
Housing Characteristics
Maternal Mortality
Economy Activity and Work history of Persons 15 years and above; who worked last week
Anthropometry
Coverage
National CoverageThe survey covered all household members from selected sample.
Producers and Sponsors
Name | Affiliation |
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National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) | Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) |
Name | Affiliation | Role |
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United Nations Development Programme | United Nations | Technical Assistance in methodology |
Oxford Poverty Human Initiative | University of Oxford | Technical Assistance in data analysis |
Name | Abbreviation | Role |
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United Nations Development Programme | UNDP | Funding |
Name | Affiliation | Role |
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Federal Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning | Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) | National Steering Committee - Overall policy direction and guidance |
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) | Computation of the various indices of Human Development: the HDI, the I-HDI, the GII and the MPI. | |
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | United Nations | Peer-reviewers of the report |
Metadata Production
Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
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National Bureau of Statistics | NBS | Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) | Metadata Producer |
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