Assessment of skills supply and demand in the digital economy in Nigeria, including digital skills
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
Foreword
Executive summary
1 Background
     1.1 Introduction
     1.2 Objective and relevance
     1.3 Key research topics
     1.4 Digital transformation and development
     1.5 Youth employment outcomes and aspirations
2 Policies, strategies and frameworks for digital skills and youth employment
     2.1 Policies, frameworks and strategies
     2.2 Youth digital literacy
3 Methodology and fieldwork
     3.1 Data sources
     3.2 Fieldwork implementation
     3.3 Data analysis and presentation
     3.4 Classification of digital skills
4 Characteristics of survey respondents
     4.1 Employers: Demography
     4.2 Employers: Internet access and usage
     4.3 Youth surveyed: Demography
     4.4 Youth sample: Internet access and usage
     4.5 Section summary: Discussion of findings
     4.6 Section summary: Recommendations
5 Demand for skills by employers, including digital skills
     5.1 The dynamics going on with employers including the extent of digitization of economic and business activities and the changing demand for skills
     5.2 Relevant digital skills, both current and emerging
     5.3 Spike in demand for specific digital skills and occupations due to digitization
     5.4 Other employability skills (foundation skills, core skills, soft skills, business management and entrepreneurship skills, transferrable technical skills), both current and emerging
     5.5 Section summary: Discussion of findings
     5.6 Section summary: Recommendations
6 Supply of skills among the youth labour force
     6.1 Career aspirations and skills of young people including digital skills (basic, intermediate, and advanced levels)
     6.2 Digital skills needed to find employment in the sector of interest (basic, intermediate, and advanced levels)
     6.3 Factors keeping young people from finding work including the role of digital skills and discouragement
     6.4 Level of skills and competencies among young people
     6.5 Youth preparedness for the labour market
     6.6 Types and level of digital skills of interest to young people
     6.7 Need for development of digital and other employability skills
     6.8 Section summary: Discussion of findings
     6.9 Section summary: Recommendations
7 Skill gap analysis
     7.1 Excess demand/shortage of digital skills and occupations experienced by employers
     7.2 Sectors experiencing excess demand/shortage of digital skills
     7.3 Digital skills supply among those looking for work and the discouraged youth
     7.4 Perceived mismatch between the digital skills supply and demand, and the nature of the mismatch
     7.5 Section Summary: Discussion of findings
     7.6 Section summary: Recommendations
8 Digital skills training institutions, platforms and opportunities
     8.1 Employer-based training including in-house training programmes and outsourcing
     8.2 Government interventions and programmes in digital skills acquisition
     8.3 Section summary: Discussion of findings
     8.4 Section summary: Recommendations
9 Collaboration to address digital skills shortage
10 Recommendations
Annexes
     Annex 1: Notable digital skills supply institutions
     Annex 2: Digital skills interventions
     Annex 3: Private sector-driven initiatives
     Annex 4: Stakeholders interviewed