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EMPLOYMENT - BY GENDER/STATE/SECTOR
35,000,000
30,000,000
25,000,000
20,000,000
15,000,000
10,000,000
5,000,000
Employment by Gender - Micro Enterprises
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Male
Female
Male
Female
Employees
Owners
Sectors with highest number of employment:
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Education (1,065,755)
Human Health & Social Works (612,622)
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Manufacturing (607,498)
Key gender trends:
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MSMEs generated 59,647,954 jobs as of
December 2017, 5% or 2,889,715 of those jobs
were created by SMEs.
Males accounted for 57% of jobs created by
SMEs, compared to 43% for women
More males are employed in total in both Micro
and Small/Medium enterprises. There is greater
disparity amongst employees, and within SMEs.
Notably, Education sector is the only sector with
gender parity in jobs (53% women).
Manufacturing employs 3 times more males
than females.
States with highest number of jobs created:
Lagos (11.5%)
Oyo (8.4%)
Kano (5.2%)
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