EFFECTS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS ON RURAL DWELLERS’ CULTURAL INTEGRITY IN OYO STATE

Abstract

Poor social status of rural dwellers’threatened cultural integrityin Nigeria. The study therefore examined the effects of socio-economic characteristics of rural dwellers’ on cultural integrity in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study specifically described various sharp practices related to cultural integrity and cultural integrity status of the rural dwellers. The study employed multistage sampling technique to select101 rural dwellersfromOyo States.The data for the study were obtained through the use of semi structured interview schedule. The data were analyzed withdescriptive statistics such as frequency count, percentage, mean and standard deviation while Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to test the null hypothesis.

            It was revealed that 60.4 percent of the respondents from Oyo State were males while 39.6 percent of the respondents were females. The mean household size was 7 individuals.  It was revealed that age (r = 0.561***, 0.000) was significantly related to rural dwellers’ cultural integrity status at (p = 0.001). Conclusively,mostof the respondents were males. The more elderly respondents are, the more their likelihood to have better cultural integrity than the younger ones. Therefore, female individuals should participate in productive rural venture like their male counterparts. The elderly individuals should influence the younger ones to imbibe cultural integrity like them.