State and wealth inequalities in foundational literacy and numeracy skills of secondary school-aged children in Nigeria: A multilevel analysis

Obiageri Bridget Azubuike, William J. Browne and George Leckie

International Journal of Educational Development, 2024, vol. 110, issue C

Abstract: We investigate state and wealth inequalities in foundational literacy and numeracy skills of secondary school-aged children in Nigeria. We analyse the 2015 Nigerian Education Data Survey using multilevel logistic regression. Our findings reveal significant inequalities in foundational literacy and numeracy skills across states and socioeconomic groups within Nigeria. Over and above the stark household wealth effect, we find a substantial impact of community and state wealth on foundational literacy and numeracy skills, emphasizing the importance of contextual factors operating at multiple geographic scales in shaping the learning outcomes of children in Nigeria. Our results reiterate the learning crisis challenge previously identified among primary school-aged children in Nigeria and underscore the urgent need for targeted interventions to also address educational inequalities among secondary school-aged children in Nigeria.

Keywords: International education; Literacy; Numeracy; Learning outcomes; Education inequalities; Multilevel analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073805932400138X
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:injoed:v:110:y:2024:i:c:s073805932400138x

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103112

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Educational Development is currently edited by Stephen P Heyneman

More articles in International Journal of Educational Development from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().