Nigeria, May 12 -- A new study has found that senior Nigerian policymakers with doctorate degrees are significantly more likely to rely on diverse forms of research evidence in decision-making than their counterparts without advanced academic training.

The study, published in Policy Sciences, in February, surveyed about 196 senior policy officers across 13 federal ministries and both chambers of the National Assembly and identified three distinct categories of evidence users in Nigeria's policymaking system.

In the study titled: "Patterns of evidence use in Nigerian policymaking: insights from latent class analysis", the researchers found that only 20 per cent of respondents-described as "eclectic users"-regularly engaged with a broad m...