| Abstrakt: |
The unpleasant situation of household sanitation in Nigeria calls for prompt attention. Access to safe water, Method of Refuse Disposal and Toilet Types are some of the household sanitation variables to be investigated. This research aims at studying a possible positive improvement in percentage of Access to safe water over a long period of years, and to verify if there is a significant relationship between mortality rate and household sanitation among the states in Nigeria. With the use of the secondary data gathered from the General Household Survey report by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), and the application of STATA 8 and MINITAB 15, the difference in the percentage of Access to safe water is not significant. The regression analysis showed high significant relationship between Crude Death Rate (CDR) and Bad Refuse Disposal Method, while the time series plot exposes the upward trends in CDR for Kano, Benue, Jigawa and Imo states, and downward trends for Lagos, Yobe, Kwara, kogi, Abia, Niger, Osun, Ondo, Ogun and FCT (Abuja). This study, therefore, recommends that the governments at all levels should devise a better and more hygienic means of disposing household refuse in order to reduce the CDR, especially at this time when the country plans to be one of the first twenty (20) nations with largest economy by the year 2020. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
