{"title":"Rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility as a socioeconomic outcome in Nigeria","authors":"Dafeng Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.jup.2024.101864","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper analyzes Nigeria's rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility. The paper shows that rural-urban inequality could largely be attributed to wealth status. Within each wealth group, the degree of rural-urban inequality was statistically insignificant. These findings suggest that Nigeria's issues of drinking water inaccessibility were primarily a socioeconomic challenge rather than rural-urban disparities in infrastructure and services beyond individual households. The observed inequality largely stemmed from the concentration of households with low socioeconomic status in rural Nigeria, but low-income urban residents experienced a comparable degree of water inaccessibility and derived no inherent benefit from urban residency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23554,"journal":{"name":"Utilities Policy","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 101864"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Utilities Policy","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957178724001589","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/12/5 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ENERGY & FUELS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper analyzes Nigeria's rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility. The paper shows that rural-urban inequality could largely be attributed to wealth status. Within each wealth group, the degree of rural-urban inequality was statistically insignificant. These findings suggest that Nigeria's issues of drinking water inaccessibility were primarily a socioeconomic challenge rather than rural-urban disparities in infrastructure and services beyond individual households. The observed inequality largely stemmed from the concentration of households with low socioeconomic status in rural Nigeria, but low-income urban residents experienced a comparable degree of water inaccessibility and derived no inherent benefit from urban residency.
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