Nigeria - Nigeria Labour Force Survey Q1 2023, First round

The National frame of EAs demarcated for the forthcoming Housing and Population Census was used to select the study units.A household listing exercise was carried out on quarterly basis to update the sampling frame from which households were selected for interview. A two-stage cluster sampling design was adopted for this survey. The first was the selection of Enumeration Areas while,the second was the selection of households.

First Stage Selection Ninety Six (96) EAs was selected in each State in which 24 EAs was canvassed quarterly in each State Nationally, a total of 3,552 EAs was covered in the 36 States of the Federation and FCT .

For the Second Stage Selection, 10 HHs were systematically selected per EA. In each State, 240 HHs were interviewed in every quarter.Nationally, a total of 35,520 HHs will be covered while 8,880 were covered quarterly.All eligible household members aged 15 years and above were interviewed.


No Deviations


The household response rate is 100%.


The weighting was computed, normalised and attached to the dataset.