Table 3.
Key characteristics by highest educational level and sex
| Nigeria DHS 2008 (weighted)
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| None | Primary | Secondary | Higher | |||||||||
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| Males | Females | Total Pop. | Males | Females | Total Pop. | Males | Females | Total Pop. | Males | Females | Total Pop. | |
| Ethnicity | ||||||||||||
| Hausa | 46.3 | 77.1 | 67.1 | 21.8 | 12.4 | 15.4 | 23.3 | 8.9 | 13.6 | 8.6 | 1.6 | 3.9 |
| Yoruba | 5.3 | 10.0 | 8.5 | 17.1 | 21.5 | 20.1 | 55.1 | 51.6 | 52.7 | 22.4 | 17.0 | 18.8 |
| Igbo | 2.1 | 5.4 | 4.4 | 29.3 | 20.8 | 23.3 | 52.6 | 58.7 | 56.8 | 16.0 | 15.2 | 15.4 |
| Fulani | 75.0 | 89.3 | 85.1 | 14.8 | 6.7 | 9.1 | 23.3 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 1.1 |
| Ijaw/Izon | 2.3 | 10.3 | 7.3 | 14.9 | 23.8 | 20.5 | 66.5 | 58.1 | 61.2 | 16.3 | 7.8 | 11.0 |
| Ibibio | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 28.2 | 27.8 | 27.9 | 51.0 | 53.2 | 52.5 | 17.3 | 15.0 | 15.8 |
| Tiv | 5.9 | 32.3 | 23.8 | 27.2 | 34.0 | 31.8 | 57.2 | 29.2 | 38.2 | 9.7 | 4.5 | 6.1 |
| Others | 14.1 | 28.6 | 24.1 | 21.2 | 24.5 | 23.4 | 49.4 | 38.5 | 41.9 | 15.3 | 8.4 | 10.6 |
| Religion | ||||||||||||
| Catholic | 3.0 | 11.1 | 8.5 | 27.6 | 23.9 | 25.1 | 55.0 | 51.6 | 52.7 | 14.4 | 13.4 | 13.8 |
| Other Christian | 4.1 | 9.5 | 7.9 | 20.4 | 23.6 | 22.6 | 55.8 | 52.7 | 53.7 | 19.6 | 14.2 | 15.9 |
| Islam | 41.1 | 66.0 | 58.1 | 19.9 | 14.8 | 16.4 | 29.6 | 16.3 | 20.6 | 9.3 | 2.9 | 5.0 |
| Traditionalist | 33.7 | 63.7 | 54.1 | 40.5 | 25.7 | 30.5 | 22.8 | 9.4 | 13.7 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| Other | 8.9 | 26.7 | 17.0 | 17.9 | 28.8 | 22.8 | 42.1 | 36.9 | 39.7 | 31.2 | 7.6 | 20.5 |
| Place of Residence | ||||||||||||
| Urban | 8.8 | 16.5 | 14.0 | 16.1 | 16.8 | 16.6 | 51.7 | 49.2 | 50.0 | 23.4 | 17.5 | 19.4 |
| Rural | 28.8 | 46.5 | 40.9 | 24.4 | 21.3 | 22.2 | 38.3 | 28.1 | 31.3 | 8.7 | 4.1 | 5.6 |
| Wealth Quintile | ||||||||||||
| Poorest | 59.1 | 75.9 | 70.9 | 22.7 | 15.7 | 17.8 | 17.0 | 8.3 | 10.9 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Poorer | 36.2 | 59.5 | 52.6 | 27.9 | 23.1 | 24.5 | 32.7 | 16.7 | 21.5 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 1.4 |
| Middle | 18.0 | 34.8 | 29.5 | 27.1 | 26.3 | 26.5 | 46.4 | 36.4 | 39.5 | 8.5 | 2.6 | 4.4 |
| Richer | 5.4 | 14.4 | 11.4 | 21.6 | 23.1 | 22.6 | 57.5 | 52.9 | 54.5 | 15.4 | 9.6 | 11.6 |
| Richest | 1.6 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 10.9 | 11.6 | 11.4 | 53.4 | 56.9 | 55.8 | 34.1 | 27.3 | 29.6 |