TY  - JOUR
T1  - Fishing Folks’ Access to 
  Early Warning and Post Flood Assistances in Lagos State, Nigeria: Application of Seemingly Unrelated Bivariate Probit (SUBP) Regression
AU - Oyekale, Abayomi Samuel 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 12
IS  - 5
SP  - 607
EP  - 611
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2013.607.611
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2013.607.611
KW  - Early warning
KW  -assistance
KW  -flooding
KW  -fishing folks
KW  -Lagos
AB  - Flooding is a serious environmental challenge in most part 
  of Lagos State due to extension of residential buildings to flood prone wetlands 
  as population explosion takes the deepest toll on the Nigeria’s 
  foremost industrial centre. The situation is more pathetic for coastal fishing 
  folks who sometimes have their houses built directly on slow flowing waters. 
  This study analyzed utilization of early warning and access to post flood assistance 
  by fishing folks in Lagos. Data were collected with structured questionnaires 
  using simple random sampling. Descriptive Methods and Seemingly Unrelated Bivariate 
  Probit (SUBP) regression were used for data analysis. Results showed that 86.2% 
  of the respondents were males while 69.2% were <40 years old. Also, 72.3% 
  had fishing as primary occupation and 47.9% had <5 years fishing experience. 
  Furthermore, 88.3% had experienced flooding with 13.8% relying on savings as 
  post flood coping method. Only 21.2% had access to warning signals 61.7% never 
  got assistance after flooding. Also, 12.8 and 11.7% of the respondents got assistance 
  from government and associations, respectively. Religious organizations assisted 
  8.5% while 4.3% got assistance from family members. The SUBP regression results 
  indicated that that being helped during flooding increased the probability of 
  seeking for early warning while being assisted during flooding is only significantly 
  influenced by income (p<0.10). It was concluded that more sensitization on 
  the need to follow media reports about pending environmental hazards like flooding 
  is needed among the fishing folks.
ER  -