The Impact of Education in Sustainable Development in the Douala Metropolis of Cameroon

Our objective is to examine how educational differences affect people’s participation in the desired predominant values. Questionnaires which were constructed drawing on the predominant values were self-administered in all the major neighbourhoods of Douala employing the systematic sampling method. Unlike graduates and postgraduates, ordinary and advanced level holders are significantly dependent and live in family houses, rent low-cost houses because they are significantly unsalaried and work in the informal sector and hardly earn above the poverty line. This study shows that the rate of return to schooling reflects the spreading of earnings between different educational groups.