The Kaduna State Government has captured 2.1 million individuals from 524,424 Poor and Vulnerable Households, PVHHs, in its Social Register.
The Coordinator of the State Operations Coordinating Unit, SOCU, Planning, and Budget Commission, Nina Dawong, made this known at a one-day Media Roundtable on the state of the State Social Register.
Mrs Dawong explained that SOCU was saddled with the responsibility of generating and maintaining the Social Register of the poor and vulnerable households in the state.
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She explained that the data was mined by the Federal Government in the delivery of its Cash Transfer program and other social protection programs.
She added that the register would be made available for development partners, organizations, Non-Governmental Organisations to mine from for various social protection interventions.
She said that the 524,424 PVHHs consist of 2.1 million individuals in 166 wards, from 5,504 communities across the 23 local government areas of the state.
The coordinator said that populating the register commenced with 16,494 PVHHs and 71,305 individuals in 2017 and grew over the years to 524,424 PVHHs with 2,051,972 individuals as of February 2021.
She said that 93.6 percent of the 524,424 PVHHs live in rural areas while 6.4 percent were in urban centers.
She said that Kachia LGA has the highest number of PVHHs with 41,205 PVHHs captured in the register, followed by Sanga with 37,508 PVHHs and Kajuru LGA with 36,233 PVHHs.
Mrs Dawong identified the local government areas with the least number of PVHHs in the register as Zangon Kataf with 9,222 households, Soba 10,388 households, and Jema’a with 11,027.
“Of the 2.1 million individuals, 1.1 million, representing 52.2 percent are females, 981,845, representing 47.9 percent are males, and 46,836, representing 2.3 percent are people living with a disability.
“Also 25 percent of the heads of the PVHH are unemployed, 45.2 percent are farmers, 0.1 percent are pensioners, and 12,.8 percent are housewives and house help.
“On education status, 63.6 percent of the head of households had no formal education, 11.3 percent had primary education, and 15.9 percent had senior secondary school education.
“More so, 3.8 has junior secondary school education, 1.5 with National Diploma, while 0.5 has Higher National Diploma and bachelor’s degree respectively and 1.2 has the certificate of education,” he said.
The coordinator added that in age distribution, 34 percent of individuals in the register were between the ages of 16 to 35 and 28 percent between the ages of six to 15.
She added that children from zero to five years made up 14 percent, those between 36 to 65 years, 20 percent, while those from 65 years and above made up four percent.
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