Assessment of households' access to electricity and modern cooking fuels in rural and urban Nigeria: Insights from DHS data

Life Science Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1564-1570

  Samuel Oyekale, Abayomi ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Electricity; Fuel wood; Kerosene; Modern energy; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877050023     PISSN: 10978135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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