Occupational Health and Safety among Street Traders in, Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorOlurinola, Isaiah O.
dc.contributor.authorFadayomi, Theophilus O.
dc.contributor.authorAmoo, Emmanuel O.
dc.contributor.authorOla-David, Oluwayomi
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-27T13:55:38Z
dc.date.available2019-06-27T13:55:38Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis study examined two important types of occupational hazards in the street trading activities in Nigeria which are (i) injuries sustained from road traffic accident and (ii) harassment of traders through indiscriminate arrest, seizure and confiscation of merchandise and occasional incarceration of sellers in police cells. The data for the study was generated from a 2011 national survey of 3,873 street traders in Nigeria which was made possible through a research grant provided by the Covenant University’s Centre for Research and Development. In addition to the descriptive statistics used in profiling the street traders, the binary logistic regression approach was also used to estimate the log of odds of experiencing occupational hazards in street trading activities. The study found out that 25 percent of the traders have suffered injury, while 49.1 percent have experienced harassment from public authority officials. Given these findings, policy measures that would focus on integrated national development, provide alternative selling points off the main streets for traders who cannot hire a shop, create more decent jobs for educated youths who are forced to take up street trading due to long spell of unemployment, among others, were proposed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOlurinola, I. O., Fadayomi, T., Amoo, E. O., & Ola-David, O. (2014). Occupational Health and Safety among Street Traders in, Nigeria. International Journal ofEconornics and Finance, 6(4).en_US
dc.identifier.issn1916-9728
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v6n4p59
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.elizadeuniversity.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12398/219
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCanadian Center of Science and Educationen_US
dc.subjectStreet tradersen_US
dc.subjectOccupational hazardsen_US
dc.subjectInformal sectoren_US
dc.subjectEmploymenten_US
dc.subjectLogistic regressionen_US
dc.subjectMigrantsen_US
dc.titleOccupational Health and Safety among Street Traders in, Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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