Assessment of Income Inequality among Rural Women Entrepreneurs in South -West, Nigeria
Ehinmowo, O. O. & Akinlade, R. J.
Department of Entrepreneurship
Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria
Email: Jummy120@yahoo.co.uk
Corresponding Author: Akinlade, R. J.
ABSTRACT
Inequality
is a manifestation as well as a strong cause of poverty. Hence this study examined income inequality among rural women
entrepreneurs in
Southwest, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 200 small
scale cassava processors with
the use of questionnaire. The data were subjected to descriptive statistics,
Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient and Double-Log regression model. The findings
showed that majority of the small scale cassava processors in Oyo, Osun and
Ondo earned below N200, 000 per annum while
most of the cassava processors in Ogun State earned above N600, 000 per annum. The
result of the Gini coefficient (0.58) showed that there was inequality among
the respondents with Ogun state having the lowest (0.16). Also the results of the regression analysis
showed that sex, number of
family size and labour significantly affected the income of the small scale
cassava processors in the study area. In conclusion, large household size should be discouraged
among cassava processors in Southwest since it has reducing
effect on income and invariably increase income inequality.
Keywords: Cassava processors, income inequality, small-scale enterprise, southwest, Nigeria
