Lagos Households’ Sociodemographic and Housing Characteristics

Analyses performed in this chapter are grouped into six sections which include demographic characteristics, socioeconomic characteristics, experiential and familiarity, residential quality and revealed choices, households’ characteristics and residential quality and summary. The respondents’ background information provides the basis for understanding the observed behavioral patterns. First of all, the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the sampled households are provided and later in the chapter the attributes of their dwelling units using simple descriptive statistics and bivariate correlation analysis are presented.