An Assessment of Co-operative Society as a Strategy for Rural Development in Edo State of Nigeria
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Abstract
The main object of this paper is to assess the role of co-operative societies as a development strategy. The study was conducted in Edo State of Nigeria. One hundred and fifty respondents were selected using a convenient sample technique. They were drawn from three local government areas of the State. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. Statistical analysis was accomplished by means of frequency distribution, percentages and Chi square. The result of the analysis showed that the co-operative society strategy is successful and should indeed be encouraged in the development of the rural communities. The study showed that there is a significant relationship between the co-operative society and the growth in size of the rural business in the rural community and that there is also a significant relationship between the growth in the co-operative society and the creation of employment in the rural community. The study may lack generalization due to the small number of co-operatives used for the study and the convenient sample nature of the selected respondents. Keywords: co-operative society; rural development; fisheries; assessment; strategy -------------------------------------------------------------- Resume L'objectif principal de cet article est d'evaluer le role des societes cooperatives comme strategie de developpement. L'etude fut menee dans l'Etat d'Edo au Nigeria. Cent cinquante candidats furent selectionnes a l'aide d'une technique d'echantillonnage simple. Les personnes sondees appartiennent a trois regions gouvernementales locales de l'Etat. Un questionnaire structure fut utilise pour collecter les donnees des repondants. Les analyses statistiques furent realisees grâce a une distribution des frequences, des pourcentages et le chi carre. Le resultat de l'analyse montrent que la strategie de la societe cooperative est un succes et devrait en fait etre encouragee dans le developpement des societes rurales. L'etude montre qu'il y a une relation significative entre la societe cooperative et la croissance en taille de l'entreprise rurale dans la communaute rurale et qu'il y a aussi une relation significative entre la croissance de la societe cooperative et la creation d'emplois dans la communaute rurale. L'etude pourrait manquer de generalisation a cause du faible nombre de cooperatives utilisees pour l'etude ainsi que la nature pratique de l'echantillonnage des personnes selectionnees.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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