Table 1: Socio-demographic and standard of living of respondents
living in leprosy settlements in Nigeria
This shows that the majority (66.7%) of the respondents were males;
mostly (87.2%) older than 25 years (adults); with
more than one-third (38.1%) with
no formal education.More than half are married (57.1%); half (50.8%)
are traders and farmers but about
a quarter (23.8%) are unemployed. Almost half (47.9%) of the residents
have lived in the settlement for more than 20 years;
with most (74.6%) of the
residents earning less than the minimum wage (N 30,000).