Federal finance and statistics / National Bureau of Statistics

2021 Nigeria Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey

Key Messages 41,532 households were sampled in 37 states. The household response rate was 99 percent while the response rates in women aged 15 to 49 years, men aged 15 to 49 years, children under 5 years and children aged between 5 and 17 years were 96 percent, 94 percent, 99 percent and 99 percent, respectively. Nineteen percent of households are headed by female household members. More than half of household heads (54%) had senior secondary school education or higher. Seventy nine percent of children aged 0-17 are living with both parents, 9 percent are living with mother only, 4 percent wit…