Nigeria: Children’s Care and Living Arrangements, DHS 2013

Better Care Network

This brief is part of a series of country briefs which aim to provide an analysis of children’s living and care arrangements according to the latest available data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) or Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys (MICS) at the time of publication. 

This country brief provides an overview of data on children’s living arrangements in Nigeria, extracted from the 2013 DHS survey. The brief presents data on who children live with, percent of parent loss, percentage of children living without their parents (by parents’ survivorship status), child relationship to head of household, and more.

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