Comparing
Nigerians and Canadians:
Insights
from Social Survey Research, 1990-2005
The
coupled with a look at Nigerian
migration and home remittances
Version 20070509
This is a 250-page document comparing the values of Canadians and Nigerians, as measured by international social surveys conducted between 1990 and 2005. It is supplemented with sociological and anthropological interpretations from the mid-1970s to the present, and presents survey data from the United States, India and other countries in Africa for comparative purposes.
Nigerian Views on Cultural Change. 18
Disorienting, Dis-occidenting, Diss Africa-ning.. 22
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL POLLING/SURVEY DATA.. 23
World Values Surveys, 1990 & 2000. 24
Some Basic Socio-economic Contrasts: Canadians and Nigerians. 25
Canadians' Volunteer Participation in Global Social Justice. 31
Canadians' Support for International Development Aid. 32
FLUX AND STASIS IN NIGERIA OVER THE 1990s.. 34
Reasons to expect stasis in Nigerian attitudes and behaviours
between 1990 and 2000 34
Signifiers of social change under macro-economic stasis. 35
Nigeria and the UN Millennium Development Goals. 37
Within-Nigeria Variability in Social Indicators. 40
Gallup 2005: All 18 Published Responses. 47
Pew and World
Values Survey Data Rankings. 53
Pew 2002: Nigeria
Highest in the Range of Country Responses (80-100%). 53
WVS 2000: Nigeria
Highest in the Range of Country Responses (80-100%). 72
Disagreement: Pew Results for 2002. 92
Disagreement: WVS Results for 2000. 106
Disagreement: WVS Results for 1990. 111
Agreement: Pew Results for 2002. 122
Pew Global Attitudes Project: 44-Nation Major Survey (2002) 122
Agreement: WVS Results for 2000. 135
Agreement: WVS Results for 1990. 141
GLOBE Study of 62 Societies (1997) 150
Social Axioms Project (Bond & Leung) 156
Gowdy, Iorgulescu & Onyeiwu, 2003. 158
Geert Hofstede,
1973 and 1990. 159
Analysis of Canadian-Nigerian Value Disparities by Topic, WVS 2000
and 1990. 161
Cross-Cultural Values Maps. 164
Nigerian Muslims and Nigerian Christians: Some Significant
Differences. 166
Public Morality, Corruption, and the Unregulated Economy.. 179
Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Indexes. 181
Transparency International: Global Corruption Barometer, 2005. 182
Anthropological Interpretations of the Western-defined Corruption. 184
Nigerian "Family Values", Vertical Transmission of the Ties that
Bind, Obedience & Impunity 188
Trust, Reciprocity and Fairness. 191
Individualism and Locus of Control: Fatalism vs. Free Choice. 195
One Modernity or Alternative Modernities? Nigerian Social Dynamics,
Thriving on Indeterminacy 201
Case Studies in Nigeria Migrant Workers' Home Remittances. 209
Shortcomings of These Surveys. 211
APPENDIX 1: Nigerian Immigration Statistics.. 220
The Nigerian
Diaspora in OECD countries, and their remittances. 220
United States Diversity Visa Lottery. 227
Nigerian Diaspora in Europe and North America. 228
Nigerian-Canadian Home Remittance Estimates Compared to Canadian
Aid to Nigeria. 229
Net Official
Development Assistance to Nigeria from Selected OECD Nations (US$,
millions). 229
Aid, Foreign Investment and Debt Service Compared to Gross Domestic
Product, 2003. 230
Net Migration Rates from Nigeria, 1995-2050. 232
APPENDIX 2. ENVIRONICS 3SC SOCIAL VALUES
SURVEY.. 238