Survey Report for Out-Of-School Children in Jigawa
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SURVEY REPORT FOR OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN IN JIGAWA STATE, NIGERIA CO-ORDINATED BY JIGAWA STATE GOVERNMENT IN COLLABORATION WITH ESSPIN August, 2014 Page | 1 Table of Contents Cover page i Acknowledgements iii Preface iv List of Tables v List of Figures vi Acronyms vii Executive Summary viii Section One: Introduction 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Objectives 2 1.3 Framework for Out-of-School Children 2 1.4 Profile of Jigawa State 4 Section Two: Methodology 6 2.1 Survey Planning for Out-of-School Children 6 2.2 Sampling Design 7 2.3 Data Quality and Supervision 7 2.4 Pilot Survey 8 2.5 Process of Data Collection and Analysis 9 Section Three: Results for Out-of-School Children 10 3.1 Number of Households and Population Size 10 3.2 Number of Out-of-School Children 12 3.3 Number of Children Attending Schools 20 3.4 Percentages of Out-of-School Children 24 Section Four: Possible Risk Factors for Out-of-School Children 27 4.1 Reasons for Out-of-School Children 27 4.2 Socio-Economic Relationships with Out-of-School Status 28 Section Five: Conclusion and Recommendations 42 5.1 Conclusion 42 5.2 Suggestions and the way forward 45 5.3 Limitations 46 References 47 Appendix A: Questionnaire 48 Page | 2 Appendix B: Interview Guide 52 Appendix C: Number of Children in the Sampled Household 53 Appendix D: Percentages of Children that Dropout from School 54 Appendix E: Percentages of Children that Never Attended School 55 Appendix F: Percentages of Children Attending Only Islamiyya/Quranic 56 Schools Appendix G: Percentages of Children Attending any Form of School 57 Appendix H: Population Projection (3-18) by Age, Sex and LGA, 2014 58 Appendix I: Sampling Variability and Ranges for OOS Children 59 Page | 3 Acknowledgements Education planning is incomplete without credible statistics on out-of-school children. An unprecedented effort was put in to conduct a comprehensive survey on out-of-school children which has provided vital information for planning in Jigawa State. Many have contributed in the design, analysis and reporting of the survey. Specific mention must be made of the Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) which provided technical and moral support as well as counterpart funding. The success of the entire survey was a demonstration of the high level of cooperation between ESSPIN, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST), National Population Commission (NPC) and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). SUBEB and MOEST are immensely grateful for the invaluable contributions of ESSPIN. Throughout the processes of data collection and analysis, the lead consultant Dr. Aliyu Usman, the ESSPIN teams headed by the STL Mustapha Ahmad, the SUBEB and MOEST EMIS team have demonstrated high professional competence in conducting and analyzing the survey for out-of-school children in the State. This level of contribution was duly acknowledged. The State Universal Basic Education Board, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and ESSPIN provided support as well as guidance during data analysis and report writing. These immense support and contribution is acknowledged with optimum appreciation. Alhaji Sani Abdullahi, Prof. Haruna Wakili, Executive Chairman, Honourable Commissioner, Jigawa State Universal Basic Education Jigawa State Ministry of Education, Board, Science and Technology, Dutse, Jigawa State. Dutse, Jigawa State. August, 2014 Page | 4 Preface This survey was born out of necessity towards achieving the Education for All initiative. Hence, it becomes imperative for the Jigawa State to conduct a thorough investigation to ascertain the number of children that are actually out of school and can be captured in the State’s education statistics for credible planning. This survey is a step towards actualizing the state plans and a strategy to reduce the number of out-of-schools children, increase public participation and respond to the global targets of achieving education for all groups. This technical report, presents the findings of the survey of out-of-school children in Jigawa State. I am certain that the report will serve as a source of information on the status of education in Jigawa State. It is hoped that stakeholders will use the information provided for planning and decision making. The Ministry is grateful to our development partners, Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) for the technical support given to education sector in the state. I wish to congratulate the lead consultant Dr. Aliyu Usman, the ESSPIN technical team headed by the STL Mustapha Ahmad, SUBEB and MOEST EMIS team, National Population Commission’s team, National Bureau of Statistics’ team, Planning Departments of State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (SMOEST), State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), other stakeholders who contributed towards the conduct of the survey for out-of-school children and the preparation of this report. Prof. Haruna Wakili, Honourable Commissioner, Jigawa State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, August, 2014 Page | 5 List of Tables 3.1 Number of Sampled Enumeration Areas, Households and Population 10 3.2 Number of Children that Dropout from School by Age, Sex and LGA 12 3.3 Number of Children that Never Attended School by Age, Sex and LGA 14 3.4 Number of Children Out-of-School by Age, Sex and LGA 16 3.5 Number of Children Attending only Islamiyya/Quranic Schools by Age, Sex 20 and LGA 3.6 Number of Children Attending any Form of School by Age, Sex and LGA 22 3.7 Out-of-School Children and Population by Age and Sex 23 3.8 Summary of Out-of-School Children by Age 24 3.9 Percentage of Out-of-School Children by Location 25 4.1 Percentage Reasons for Dropouts and Never Attended by Location 27 4.2 Percentage OOSC by Type of House 28 4.3 Percentage OOSC by Major Occupation of Household Head 29 4.4 Percentage OOSC by Education Level of Parents 31 Page | 6 List of Figures 3.1 Number of Sampled Households 11 3.2 Distribution of Dropout Children 13 3.3 Distribution of Children that Never Attend School 15 3.4 Distribution of Out-of-School Children 17 3.5 Number of Out-of-School Children by LGA 18 3.6 Number of Out-of-School Children in NDHS and OOS Surveys 19 3.7 Distribution of Children Attending Islamiyya/Quranic Schools Only 21 3.8 Distribution of Children Attending any Form of School 23 3.9 Out-of-School Children as a Percentage of the Population 24 3.10 Percentage of Out-of-School Children 25 3.11 Percentage OOSC by Location 26 4.1 Percentage Reasons for OOS Children 28 4.2 Percentage of OOS Children by Type of House 39 4.3 Percentage of OOS Children by Occupation of Household Head 30 4.4 Percentage of OOS Children by Education Level of Parent 32 Page | 7 Acronyms ASC Annual School Census BE Basic Education CI Confidence Interval EA Enumeration Area ECCD Early Child Care Development ECCDE Early Child Care Development Education EFA Education for All EMIS Education Management Information System ESSPIN Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria FGD Focus Group Discussion FME Federal Ministry of Education GPE Global Partnership on Education HH Household HHH Household Head IBM SPSS Predictive Analytic Software IQTE Integrated Quranic and Tsangaya Education ISD Integrated School Development JSS Junior Secondary School LGA Local Government Area LGEA Local Government Education Authority MOEST Ministry of Education, Science and Technology NBS National Bureau of Statistics NDHS Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey NPC National Population Commission OOS Out-of-School OOSC Out-of-School Children OOSS Out-of-School Survey SCSD Stratified Cluster Sampling Design SE Standard Error SESP State Education Sector Plan SSIT State School Improvement Team SSS Senior Secondary School SUBEB State Universal Basic Education Board UBE Universal Basic Education UN United Nations Page | 8 Executive Summary Jigawa State conducted this survey for out-of-school children in order to ascertain the authenticity of various claims for OOSC in Nigeria as well as to plan for EFA goals. Furthermore, the survey was conducted to determine the number of out-of-school children as well as the possible reasons for their OOS status for credible planning. The stratified cluster sampling design (SCSD) was used for the survey. The SCSD is a combination of stratified and cluster sampling methods. The 27 LGAs of Jigawa State were the strata and each stratum was subdivided into EAs (clusters). Samples of enumeration areas (EAs) were selected from each LGA using one-stage cluster sampling with probability proportional to size. A sample of 378 EAs was selected from the 21,132 EAs in the State. In one-stage cluster sampling, all the households within the selected EAs were completely listed and enumerated for the OOS children. A Pilot survey was earlier conducted in three LGAs to test-run the instruments and the field process. Overall, 820,930 children aged 3-18 years were OOS which constitutes 35.8% of the total number of children 3-18 years of age. The results have shown that there were 50,014 boys and 37,534 girls aged 3-18 years dropouts in Jigawa State. On the other hand, there were 370,666 boys and 362,716 girls aged 3-18 years that never attended school. Overall, there were 420,680 and 400,250 out-of-school boys and girls aged 3-18 years respectively. There were 39,718 boys and 55,750 girls aged 3-18 years attending only Islamiyya/Quranic schools. Again, there were 710,553 boys and 667,708 girls aged 3-18 years attending any form of school in the State.