INFLUENCE OFBANK ACCESS ON PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN PLATEAU NORTH, NIGERIA
Keywords:
Bank Access, Persons with Disabilities, bank admission & bank usage.Abstract
This study seeks to find Impact of Bank Access on Persons with Disabilities in Plateau North, Nigeria. The specific objectives are to examine the extent to which bank admission and usage can be used to change bank access of PWD,using survey research design. The population is one hundred and two (102) PWDs. The sample size is forty-seven (47) PWDs.Bank Access Scale (BAS) was the instrument used to obtain data in this research. Data were collected and analysed using descriptive statistics comprising of simple means, percentages, frequencies, standard deviations and tables to answer the two research questions. The results revealed that bank access changed thebank admission and usage of PWDs to a great extent. This study therefore, recommended that Government and private settings such as banks, must ensure that banks are accessible to PWDs, especially when it comes to removal of physical barriers, communication barriers and institutional barriers.
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