Table 1

S/N	States	X_i	Range	Y_i
1	Abia	18	1-18	22
2	Adamawa	21	19-39	41
3	AkwaIbom	31	40-70	65
4	Anambra	20	71-91	52
5	Bauchi	8	92-111	38
6	Bayelsa	23	112-119	37
7	Benue	27	120-142	27
8	Borno	18	143-169	42
9	Cross River	25	170-187	25
10	Delta	12	188-212	47
11	Ebonyi	18	213-224	29
12	Edo	16	225-242	31
13	Ekiti	16	243-258	21
14	Enugu	11	259-274	21
15	Gombe	27	275-285	14
16	Imo	27	286-312	63
17	Jigawa	27	313-339	65
18	Kaduna	23	340-362	59
19	Kano	45	363-407	123
20	Katsina	34	408-442	38
21	Kebbi	20	443-461	9
22	Kogi	21	462-482	40
23	Kwara	16	483-498	7
24	Lagos	20	499-518	43
25	Nassarawa	13	519-531	60
26	Niger	26	532-557	39
27	Ogun	20	558-577	25
28	Ondo	18	578-595	36
29	Osun	30	596-625	50
30	Oyo	33	626-658	47
31	Plateau	17	659-675	20
32	Rivers	23	676-698	34
33	Sokoto	23	699-721	3
34	Taraba	16	722-737	71
35	Yobe	17	738-754	19
36	Zamfara	14	755-768	35

Table 1: The correlation coefficient Are between the auxiliary variable x_i and the variable of interest y_i.