Kaduna State Out of School Children Mapping, 2022
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Executive Summary
Most research on out-of-school Children in Nigeria do not attempt to identify the affected children or show their spatial distribution as such spatial analysis are often not done. In this project, GIS was employed to aid visualization, monitor of activities of data collectors in field and ensure quality control and spatial analysis to determine trend and patterns of out-of-school children in selected LGAs of Kaduna State. GIS was also utilized in spatial data capture for contact tracing of the children. This helps in planning and decision making because the spatial count of the children per LGA or ward can be determined.
The recently conducted Kaduna State General Household Survey by Kaduna State Bureau of Statistics in 2020 shows that 31.1% of children within the primary school age are out of school. The percentage translate to 535,353 children using population projection of 2006 census from National Population Commission. 31.9% of children within the junior secondary school age are out of school, which translate to 233,386 children. In summary, Kaduna is estimated to have 768,739 OOSC at the basic level of education (Basic 1 to 9).