Nigeria Poverty Assessment 2022

NIGERIANS' JOBS ARE PRECARIOUS - THE LABOR MARKET HAS SHOWN SIGNIFICANT CHURN WHEN SHOCKS LIKE COVID-19 HIT Despite a dramatic initial drop, Nigerians soon returned to work after COVID-19 first struck - Yet as the crisis continued, households turned to small-scale non-farm enterprise activities to cope – just as they had turned to farming in the 2016 recession - with the additional work sometimes coming at the expense of education Share of respondents (percent) 100 ៩ ៦៦ ១៨ ៖ ៖ ៖ 90 Overall labor market responses to the COVID-19 crisis Panel A: Share of respondents working Panel B: Job type for full working-age population 100 NIGERIA THE WORLD BANK IBRD ⚫IDA | WORLD BANK GROUP Note: Sample is the main respondent in each NLPS household. Source: NLPS and World Bank calculations. Before Mar 2020 Jun 2020 Apr/May 2020 Jul 2020 Aug 2020 Sep 2020 Oct 2020 Nov 2020 Dec 2020 Jan 2021 Feb 2021 Mar 2021 Share of the working-age population (percent) 6420 80 80 0 Jan-Feb 2019 ■Wage Farming Apprentice or other Not working Note: Sample is all individuals of working age, that is, those aged 15–64. Primary job refers to the job that individuals spent the most hours doing in the last week. Sample restricted to a balanced panel of individuals observed throughout the period of interest. Source: NLPS and World Bank calculations. Feb 2021 ■ Non-farm enterprise ◆ All working 8

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