The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in partnership with the United Nations Women, has unveiled plans to conduct the first Time Use survey across the 36 states of the federation and the FCT.
Speaking at a stakeholders’ event yesterday in Abuja, the Statistician General of the Federation, Prince Adeyemi Adeniran, said the survey would serve as the main statistical source of information on how individuals used their time between paid and unpaid work, including unpaid domestic and care work activities, studies, personal care, family tasks and leisure activities.
He said, “It provides valuable insights into the socioeconomic patterns, work-life balance, and gender dynamics within a society and provides essential data that enables government, policymakers, and development practitioners to make informed decisions and design effective policies to address the needs and aspirations of citizens.”
He noted that in 1998, the then Federal Office of Statistics, which is now known as the National Bureau of Statistics, conducted a pilot survey on Time Use only in five states of the federation: Lagos, Osun, Enugu, Kaduna and Bauchi, and was designed to study how Nigerian households used their time, and that since then no holistic survey had been conducted.
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Earlier in her address, the UN Women representative in Nigeria, Beatrice Eyong, said the survey would aid the Nigerian government at all levels to reduce poverty and gender imbalance.
