DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH VOLUME 36, ARTICLE 22, PAGES 659-690 PUBLISHED 21 FEBRUARY 2017 http://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol36/22/ DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.22 Research Article Orphan status, school attendance, and their relationship to household head in Nigeria Aramide Kazeem Leif Jensen © 2017 Aramide Kazeem & Leif Jensen. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 2.0 Germany, which permits use, reproduction & distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit. See http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/de/