PRELIMINARY MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA – A CASE STUDY OF DELTA STATE OF NIGERIA

Atubi, Augustus .O

Department of Geography and Regional Planning

Delta State University, Abraka

E-mail: atubigrp@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

The paper examined the socio-economic factors of development in the Delta state of Nigeria. The major source of data is secondary’ and the statistical technique is the step-wise multiple regression. The household income was used as an index of development while the socio-economic variables included population, education, and employment, capital water projects, housing unit, health centres, industries and police station. Four key socio-economic variables of population, health centres, employment and capital water projects were identified as being responsible for 80% of the variation in the development of Delta state of Nigeria among other variables. Solutions to identified problems were proffered.

Keywords: Socio Economic, Development; Delta; factors