Mapping Poverty and Deprivation in Barikin-Sale, Minna, Nigeria

Abstract

Poverty is a very serious problem facing currently bedevilling a large proportion of the global population. This problem is becoming intensified with the rapid rate of global population growth and unprecedented urbanisation. More worrisome is the fact that this phenomenon has translated into urbanisation of poverty. ' This study aimed at mapping poverty and deprivation in Barikin Sale neighbourhood of Minna, Nigeria; and the objectives are to obtain the base map of the stlidy area, acquire data on household deprivation in the study area, assess the rate of deprivation in the neighbourhood and produce poverty maps of the study area. Barikin Sale was subdivided into 10 small areas which were termed sub-neighbourhoods which form the units of analysis and mapping. Ten households were randomly sampled from each sub-neighbourhood. Descriptive and inferential analyses were carried out and it was discovered that household deprivation is more obvious at subneighbourhoods level than at the general neighbourhood level. Principal component and factor analysis techniques were adopted to rheasure the marginality index of the residents across the sub-neighbourhoods and the results were used to produce poverty maps for the study area. The study discovered that the residents of Barikin Sale suffer ultra-deprivation in term of adult literacy level. The study recommends that the residents of Barikin sale should be encouraged to enrol in adult literacy classes