Abstract

This study is on the impact of co-operative societies on capital formation using a case study of Temidere-co-operative and Thrift-society Ijebu-ode Ogun state The objectives are to identify the socio-economic characteristics of the cooperators in the study area identify the uses of funds of co-operative societies determine to what extent co-operatives have benefited members in financing their investments identify problems militating against the effectiveness of co-operative societies and offer suggestions and recommendations on how to improve the cooperative societies towards enhancing the capital formation of members The study adopted a non parametric method of analysis which involved Chi-Square method descriptive statistics and correlation analysis to achieve the stated objectives