Spirit and Power: Survey of Pentecostals in Nigeria

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EMPLOY (Percentages are weighted by GPWGT; Total Ns reported are unweighted) Turning to another subject, suppose you could choose between different kinds of jobs. Which one would you prefer: being an employee or being self-employed?   1) Being an employee   2) Being self employed   3) Neither/None   8) Don't know   9) Refused

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Category	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Being an employee	19.5%	19.5%
Being self employed	78.2%	97.7%
Neither/None	1.5%	99.2%
Don't know	.6%	99.8%
Refused	.2%	100.0%
Total N = 999

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Gender Household income Race/Ethnicity Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	18 - 24	25 - 29	30 - 39	40 - 49	50 or more	TOTAL
Being an employee	16.0%	19.4%	25.9%	16.8%	17.8%	19.5%
Being self employed	81.2%	79.9%	72.2%	82.1%	76.7%	78.3%
Neither/None	1.7%	0.7%	1.3%	1.1%	2.7%	1.4%
Don't know	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	2.7%	0.6%
Refused	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	991

Education (I-EDUC)

	Incomplete primary	Comp primary OR incom secondary (tech/voc.)	Comp secondary: tech./voc.	Incom or com secondary: univ-prep	College of educ or incom/com polythenic	Some university-level educ or more	TOTAL
Being an employee	15.6%	23.7%	18.5%	10.8%	16.9%	28.9%	19.4%
Being self employed	83.3%	73.3%	79.8%	83.1%	83.1%	70.0%	78.4%
Neither/None	1.0%	1.5%	0.6%	4.8%	0.0%	1.1%	1.4%
Don't know	0.0%	1.5%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	997

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Being an employee	22.1%	17.0%	19.6%
Being self employed	74.9%	81.8%	78.3%
Neither/None	2.1%	0.6%	1.4%
Don't know	0.9%	0.3%	0.6%
Refused	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	999

Household income (I-INCOME)

	50,000 naira per year or less	50,001 to 150,000 naira per year	150,001 naira per year or more	TOTAL
Being an employee	23.4%	19.1%	21.6%	21.8%
Being self employed	75.4%	79.8%	76.1%	76.7%
Neither/None	1.1%	1.1%	0.7%	1.0%
Don't know	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.5%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	633

Race/Ethnicity (I-ETHNIC)

	Hausa	Ibo	Yoruba	All others	TOTAL
Being an employee	10.7%	16.5%	13.2%	32.5%	19.5%
Being self employed	85.4%	81.3%	83.5%	67.0%	78.2%
Neither/None	3.4%	1.4%	0.8%	0.5%	1.5%
Don't know	0.0%	0.7%	2.5%	0.0%	0.6%
Refused	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	996

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Single most important thing	Very important	SW imp., Not too imp., or Not at all imp.	TOTAL
Being an employee	15.1%	22.2%	17.6%	19.5%
Being self employed	81.9%	75.8%	82.4%	78.2%
Neither/None	2.9%	0.8%	0.0%	1.5%
Don't know	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.6%
Refused	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	999