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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ENROLMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA: EVIDENCE FROM ARDL BOUNDS TESTING APPROACH, 1980– 2024

The study examined the contribution of vocational education to reducing unemployment in Nigeria using an expost facto design based on secondary data. Annual time series data covering 45 observations (1980–2024) weresourced from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS, 2024), including vocational education enrolment,unemployment rate, and population growth. The analysis was conducted using Stata 17.0. The Phillips-Perronunit root test was applied to ensure stationarity and avoid spurious regression. The Autoregressive DistributedLag (ARDL (2,1,1)) model was then estimated to assess both short-ru…