Diagnostic Test on Ecotourism Development and Welfare of Host Community in Doguwa Local Government Kano, Nigeria

After performing the necessary data editing and data cleaning, and confirming the validity and reliability of the instruments, the study subjected the data to further diagnostic test of: normality, linearity, no multi-collinearity and homogeneity tests, to evaluate the accuracy, reliability and appropriateness of data before running the parametric statistics. The study used cross sectional, descriptive and correlation designs. The data were collected using none standardize instruments. The study arrived at sample size of 399 through Sloven’s formula. The study used both probability and non-probability of purposive, stratified and simple random. Similarly, in ascertaining internal consistency and trustworthiness, the findings from reliability tests using Cronbach alpha arrived at Cronbach alpha coefficients above 0.7, and validity tests using content validity index with CVIs above 0.7, KMO above 0.7, Bartlets test sig less than 0.05, determinants greater than 0.000, communalities above 0.5 and rotated component matrices discriminated and loading highly on distinct factors. Moreover, the data were analysed at univariate, bivariate and multivariate levels. The findings from diagnostic test reveal that data are appropriate for the conduct of parametric statistics of correlation and regression.