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Wall material of dwellings

Household Statistics · Source: NBS

What the exterior walls of Nigerian dwellings are built from, by state, from two surveys — the 2019 NLSS and the 2021 MICS/NICS. Each survey uses its own material categories, so the two are shown separately: pick a survey to see its composition. They are not a time series.

Surveys

2

NLSS 2019 · MICS/NICS 2021

Coverage

36 states + FCT

Households, by wall material

Basis

% of households

Composition — not a trend

Composition by state

Survey
  • Cement / concrete
  • Mud
  • Bricks
  • Wood / bamboo
  • Other
National% of households

Wall material of dwellings — NLSS 2019 — national composition: Cement / concrete 60.7%, Mud 31.5%, Bricks 4.9%, Wood / bamboo 1.8%, Other 1.1%.

Urban
Rural

By state

Sorted by the share of “Cement / concrete”. Exact per-state values are in the download below.

  • Lagos
  • Anambra
  • Imo
  • Delta
  • Rivers
  • Ogun
  • Enugu
  • Oyo
  • FCT
  • Bayelsa
  • Abia
  • Kwara
  • Edo
  • Akwa Ibom
  • Kogi
  • Ekiti
  • Osun
  • Niger
  • Ondo
  • Nasarawa
  • Cross River
  • Ebonyi
  • Kaduna
  • Benue
  • Kano
  • Plateau
  • Adamawa
  • Kebbi
  • Taraba
  • Bauchi
  • Sokoto
  • Gombe
  • Zamfara
  • Katsina
  • Jigawa
  • Yobe

The two surveys

Each survey is its own published table — folded here behind the control above, with its citation and full per-state download kept.

  • NLSS 2019

    The “NLSS 2019” survey above. Previously published as Wall material (NLSS 2019).

    Download (CSV) ↓JSON ↓
    Cite this table
    "Wall material (NLSS 2019)", NBS, Annual Abstract of Statistics 2023, ref. NGA-NBS-ABSTRACT. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-hh-wall-material-nga#member-nbs-hh-wall-material-nlss2019-nga.

  • MICS/NICS 2021

    The “MICS/NICS 2021” survey above. Previously published as Exterior wall material (MICS/NICS 2021).

    Download (CSV) ↓JSON ↓
    Cite this table
    "Exterior wall material (MICS/NICS 2021)", NBS, Annual Abstract of Statistics 2023, ref. NGA-NBS-ABSTRACT. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-hh-wall-material-nga#member-nbs-hh-exterior-wall-material-mics2021-nga.

Source and citation

This page brings together 2 published tables from one release. Each table is catalogued from a public source table; how the data is extracted and checked is set out in the methodology.

Cite this release
"Wall material of dwellings", NBS, Annual Abstract of Statistics 2023, ref. NGA-NBS-ABSTRACT. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-hh-wall-material-nga.
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Source: NBS. Source publication: Annual Abstract of Statistics 2023. Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Catalogued by Prism; 2019.