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An exploratory demographic study of the Nupe of Niger State: the case of Sakpe Village
A.N.U. Development Studies Centre • Canberra • Published In 1978 • Pages: xii, 115
By: Katcha, Abubakar.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study, conducted in April 1977, presents basic demographic characteristics of the Nupe village of Sakpe in Niger State. This village is located in a remote forest region of Nigeria and is predominantly a traditional Muslim farming community. Previous to this work there was little known about the demographic characteristics of the Nupe people. The only available information came from the Nigerian population censuses which the author believes were limited in scope, generally defective, and unreliable in content. Katcha, based on his fieldwork in the area, attempts to correct these deficiencies by providing updated information on birth rates, age-specific fertility rates, mortality rates, and related demographic factors such as marriage and breast-feeding practices.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Family
- Marriage
- Composition of population
- Birth statistics
- Mortality
- Conception
- Infant feeding
- Pregnancy
- Tests and schedules administered in the field
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nupe
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1977
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sakpe, southern Niger state, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Abubakar Katcha
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-92)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79309317
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nupe (African people)
- Sakpe (Nigeria)--Population
- Nigeria--Population