Sunday Matthew Abatan

Mr. Sunday Abatan is a lecturer at Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Federal University Oye-Ekiti and a doctoral student in the Department of Demography and Social Statistics at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He has exhibited high flexibility and optimal performance as a project manager in various research projects. As a data quality manager and project monitoring and evaluation officer of different projects, he has served as team lead to different state projects sponsored by the World Bank, USAID, and the likes. These projects cut across social and health interventions, poverty alleviation, agricultural inputs coupled with training, and human empowerment. His research interest covers maternal health, reproductive/child health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, malaria, tuberculosis, and quality of care. His analytical skills cover the use of different statistical software such as SPSS, STATA, Eview, MSExcel, Epi-data, and Health management record metadata; Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) using different data collection applications like ODK, SurveyCTO, Kobo Collect, etc. He has consulted for different organizations and projects as a statistician, data analyst, and field supervisor using different techniques which include demographic estimations, direct and indirect techniques, and census evaluation, with sound analytical skills. He is learning and improving himself in policy formulation and technical report writing. Mr Abatan has experience in both qualitative and quantitative research methods. He is also good at In-depth Interviews (IDI), key informant Interviews (KII), and Focus Group Discussions for qualitative data analysis. Presently, he had won different research grants and fellowships, such as P3-African/ America Institute of Research (AIR) grants, AfRes-Data ECRs Fellowship sponsored by Union for African Population Studies, Guttmacher Institute in partnership with CRERD and AHEAD ECRs small grants etc. At a more personal level, he is a well-disciplined and industrious individual with a pleasant personality.