β Scribed by J. O. Oyebanji
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An attempt is made to describe territorial social indicators for Kwara State, Nigeria, and to suggest how they might be used to map inequalities.
Although it is generally accepted by the various world nations that the state of the nation is a matter of great concern and needs to be monitored, a dichotomy has often been maintained between economic and social well-being. Whereas both aspects of well-being represent the total health of the nation, far greater attention has been given to economic performance and technological rivalries while social problems such as drug addiction ,juvenile delinquency, malnutrition, environmental degradation, social alienation, infant mortality, racial and ethnic discrimination and many others, which themselves are largely the price of progress, have often been relegated to the background.
The general lack of concern for social issues has not only been great amongst policy makers but has been much greater amongst academics, especially geographers. Whereas geographers' concern for the spatial distribution of economic well-being started as far back as the early sixties (Thompson et al., 1962; Lloyd and Dicken, 1972, Ch. 10), that for social well-being otherwise known variously as 'quality of life', 'level of living', or 'social indicators' started only about a decade ago with the coming of the so-called 'social indicators movement' (
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