Wholesale and retail traders in Nigeria

This dataset collects information from 764 wholesale and retail traders in Lagos, Nigeria. The traders surveyed buy and sell consumer goods such as clothing, electronics, toiletries, and homewares. They operate from permanent physical premises.

A typical trader in Lagos is male (73%), 42 years old, and has been in business for 14 years. As of 2017, on average, traders had 1.3 shops and 1.2 paid and unpaid workers. In February 2020, before the pandemic hit Nigeria, the average weekly revenue of the traders surveyed was just under NGN 400,000 (approximately USD 1,030).