The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)
Abstract
This paper examined democratic government and rural development in Taraba State Nigeria using small sample of 36 respondents to report the pilot study results. The methodology adopted was survey research design; in which questionnaire were administered randomly on students of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria-Nigeria. The reliability of the instruments were analyzed using SPSS V20. The results confirmed the reliability of all the instruments adopted for the study. It concludes that, the benchmark of 0.60 adopted from literatures confirmed the reliability of all the items of the constructs and therefore be maintained for the main study. Keywords: Democratic government, rural development, Taraba State-Nigeria, Pilot study repor
