THE RELEVANCE OF POPULATION CENSUS TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT The project is on the relevance of population census to economic development of rural areas in Nigeria (a case study of Orumba north local government of Anambra state) the zone comprises of 16 rural communities namely; Ajalli, Ufuma, Ndike, Ndiowu, Omogho, Oko, Amaokpala, Awa, Amaetiti, Awgbu, Ndiukwuenu, Ndiokolo, Okpeze, Ndiokpalaeze, Nanka and Ndiokpalaeke these formed the area of the study: In this research work, a sample population was selected and administered with questionnaire and their responses were analysed using percentage method, after the analysis, the researcher find out that adequate population census data is thus a sine qua non for economic development of rural areas and also adequate population census data will help in effective planning of these rural area in order to improve their standard of living. The researcher is of the view that population data required in planning process should be plan by the government which include employment situations based on the findings, youths were encouraged to participate on the society’s development and government should use skilled professionals in census data to eradicate unreliable census date, with this regard, some conclusion was drawn and recommendation were made bearing in mind that rural areas were faced with high population because of high birth rate 

TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGEi APPROVAL PAGEii DEDICATIONiii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSiv TABLE OF CONTENTSvi ABSTRACTix
CHAPTER ONE 1.0INTRODUCTION1 1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY1 1.2STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM5 1.3PURPOSE OF THE STUDY7 1.4SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY8 1.5RESEARCH QUESTIONS9 1.6SCOPE OF THE STUDY10
CHAPTER TWO 2.0LITERATURE REVIEW12 2.1POPULATION ISSUES12 2.2POPULATION. DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT IN RURAL AREAS16 2.3 CONTRIBUTION OF POPULATION TO ECONOMIC   DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL ARES.18
CHAPTER THREE 3.0METHODOLOGY20 3.1BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE STUDY20 3.2DESIGN OF THE STUDY21 3.3AREA OF THE STUDY21 3.4POPULATION OF THE STUDY22 3.5SAMPLE OF THE STUDY23 3.6INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION25 3.7VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT25 3.8DISTRIBUTION AND RETRIEVAL OF THE INSTRUMENT 25 3.9METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS26
CHAPTER FOUR 4.0DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS28 4.1 FINDINGS33
CHAPTER FIVE 5.0 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS34 5.1 RECOMMENDTIONS35 5.2CONCLUSION37 5.3LIMITATION OF THE STUDY39 5.4SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 40 REFERENCE41 APPENDIX A44 APPENDIX B45 QUESTIONNAIRE 46