Participation of elderly women in community welfare activities in Akinyele local government, Oyo State, Nigeria

Author/s: Stella O. Odebode

Edition: Volume 49, Number 3, November 2009

Summary: This paper assessed the participation of elderly women in community welfare activities in Oyo State, Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 120 elderly women from six out of the twelve political wards in the study area. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection were used to elicit information from the respondents. A focus group discussion was conducted with the elderly women groups, in each of the six wards. Frequency counts and percentages were used to summarise the data, while chi-square and the multinomial logit regression model were also used to analyse the data.

Keywords: elderly, women, community welfare, Nigeria

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