SHEFA PROVINCE
KEY - FACTS
The 2016 Post Pam mini census was carried out to update statistics on the population and socio-economic development, after the Tropical cyclone (TC) Pam, throughout all the provinces of Vanuatu. Population characteristic is vital information about Vanuatu and individual provinces.
Shefa province fact-sheet is a booklet that summarizes all information for shefa province in eleven (11) key topics. The topics are being summarize and presented in a form of key findings.
The key findings are from the population information, housing information, education, information on labor, agriculture and forestry, livestock and fisheries, communication and energy, water and sanitation, disaster and lastly the information on registration.
KEY RESULT
1. POPULATION
POPULATION
More than 40% of the population of Shefa is made up of the age of 30 to 49. The age group of 15 to 29 and the ages below 15 have less than 30% of population whereas the ages of 50+ have the least percentage
Age group by sex shows that in Shefa there are about equal size of males compared to females at almost all age groups. However, the number of males is slightly higher than the number of females
In Shefa province, Efate is the most populated island with about eighty four thousand people compared to other islands within the province as presented in figure 3. This means that Efate constitutes 87% of Shefa Population. The least populated island, on the other hand, is the outer islands of Efate with two thousand people.
2. HOUSING
Housing or dwelling is defined as a structural building or shelter that houses a nuclear or an extended family. Housing materials in Vanuatu can be in the form of a traditional, modern or a makeshift style. Out of the total private households in Vanuatu, 36% (19,913) are counted in Shefa province.
The statistical definition of a ‘household (HH)’ in a census is “a family that live together and share the cost and work of preparing a meal”.
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
The size of a household refers to the number of family members living together. This can be calculated as total number of population surveyed divided by the total number of households surveyed. For Example: In Shefa, total population (in private households) is 96,405 and the total private households is 19,913. Therefore, the average household size is: 96,405/19,913 = 5 person per household.
HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD
Like all other provinces, almost 20% (3,595) of the total private households are headed by women (Figure 2). Usually males are the household head as shown in most provinces including Shefa. The highest number of female headed households are common in household with only 1 person living in the house. Shefa has shown otherwise that female headed households are more common in household with household size of 3 person and this is not likely for the males. The male headed households increase with the household size in Shefa and are at its highest with household size of 4 person
3. EDUCATION
The 2016 Mini Census questionnaire includes 2 questions pertaining to School Attendance. This applies to any person living in the household who had attended school. A person is considered to be involved in education if, during the survey week they attended any form of education either full time or part time.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Figure 1 shows that majority of children aged 4 to 8 years old attended school during census period. Overall as the age increases, the number of population that attended school decreases.
EDUCATIONAL LEVEL
Shefa statistics of children that attended school shows that majority are at the Primary Level with over 19 thousand children. Compared with the other levels, primary accounts for 76% of children attending school.
The Area Council with most primary children is Port Vila with over nine thousand children. Both Erakor and Eratap had over one thousand children while all other area councils had lower than that.
4. LABOUR FORCE
'Labour force' are the working-age population who during the survey reference week are classified as 'employed' and 'unemployed'. Figure 1 shows that 37 percent of the Labor force are in Shefa.
MAIN ACTIVITY IN THE LAST 7 DAYS
The Mini Census asked main activity during the last seven days. Main activity was asked to population aged 15 years and over under the following type of activity;
1. Employed ; Employer, Self employed, employee public/private sector.
2. Producing goods ; included producing goods for own consumption and sale.
3. Unpaid family Work ; includes family business and household duties.
4. Volunteer work ; includes community and church services.
5. Economically inactive ; are the population not involved in any work during the survey period but are in the working age group. This does not include Retired, Disabled and full time students.
