Citation: Faruk U. Abubakar, Muhammad Anka Nasiru (2022) Sociological Analysis of Covid-19 Knowledge, Attitude, Compliance and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria: Data Screening and Preliminary Analysis, International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Research, Vol.8, No.1 pp.24-39
Abstract: COVID-19 has spread with frightening speed, affecting millions of people globally. In reaction to the fight against Covid-19, Nigeria’s government has witnessed lockdown on some significant social and economic activities. However, the lockdown has been less effective in controlling the spread of the disease, perhaps due to negative attitude, low level of Knowledge, and poor compliance to prevention and control measures among the populace, which invariably resulted in a destructive spill-over effect on the realization of sustainable development goals (SDGs). Therefore, this study’s objective was to conduct data screening and preliminary analysis of the selected sociological study’s constructs. This study used a cross-sectional survey design and a web-based questionnaire and collected 312 productive questionnaires. The data was screened and cleaned to satisfy the underlying assumptions of multivariate analysis. Specifically, this study conducted data screening by examining response rates, missing values, outliers, normality, multicollinearity, and non-response bias. The result of the study indicated that the dataset had satisfied all the requirements for further multivariate analysis.
Keywords: Compliance, Knowledge, Sustainable Development Goals, attitude, data screening, sociological analysis
