GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENCOUNTRY-PROFILENIGERIAMEASURESNATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS
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NIGERIA | AFRICA
National Bureau Of Statistics
Type of Measure
Institutional mechanisms
Form of Violence
Violence against women and girls
Year
2011
Brief Description

The Federal Government of Nigeria has established an Agency, known as the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), responsible for collecting, compiling, analyzing, interpreting, publishing and disseminating statistical information relating to the socio-economic life and conditions of the people of Nigeria. These include matters relating to gender based violence that are population-based and regular national surveys focused. The Bureau coordinates the development and management of official statistics in all the Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies, State Governments Statistical Agencies and Local Government Councils.

For more information on the NBS, please click here.

Source of Information
Response of the Government of Nigeria to the questionnaire on violence against women 2011
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