popoolaio/Poverty-in-Nigeria

# Introduction: This project was done by team 8 members at the Data Science Track, Cohort 6, of AI Saturdays training session, holding at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. # Project Aim: Assessing Issues Around Poverty in Nigeria # Project Objectives: The objectives were to assess: 1. The socio-demographics of the respondents 2. The rate of employment in Nigeria 3. Salary earnings per month 4. Respondents’ Income from other sources 5. Job satisfaction across salary ranges 6. The level of incomes Satisfaction 7. Major Expenses Incurred by Nigerians 8. Level of tax payment 9. Major desires of Nigerians to own assets # Project Methodologies: 1. Generation of a project work plan 2. Preparation of a questionnaire 3. Online administration of the questionnaire 4. Data Cleaning and Preparation 5. Exploratory Data Analysis, using Python programming 6. Data Visualization 7. Project technical report writing 8. Development of MS PowerPoint Slides 9. Formal report presentation during a class session # Outcomes: The insights from the project shown that: 1. 181(60.0%) of 302 respondents constituted the modal age group of 18-25 years in the survey. 2. Quite a number of respondents 50(7.0%) have ICT related occupations. 3. The employment rate among the respondents was 86%. 4. 26% of respondents live below the international poverty level. 5. The highest number of respondents 82(27.0%) collect salaries of range N(21,000:00 – 50,000:00). 6. Majority of respondents, with the exception of those in monthly salary ranges of N(10,000:00 – 20,000) and below N5,000:00, are happy with their jobs. 7. 283(93.0%) of respondents affirmed that they were not satisfied with the level of their incomes. 8. Majority of Nigerians spent the largest percentage of their incomes on feedings, closely followed by transportation and rents. 9. majority of respondents, with the exception of those in monthly salary ranges of N(10,000:00 – 20,000), N(5,000:00 – 10,000) and below N5,000:00, are tax payers 10. 13 …