PENAMA 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.
Penama province fact-sheet is a booklet that summarizes all information for penama 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
Nearly half the population of Penama province is made up of young people under the age of 15 years. On the other hand, the population between ages of 15-29 years is 6,789 (22%) and 30-49 years of age is 6,654 (21%) which is below the total population of between 0-14 age group. Moreover, the percentage decreases for the age of 50+. Refer to figure 1 for percentage results of age groups being mentioned.
Age group by sex shows that in Penama province, there are only a slightly higher number of males in all age groups than females (as shown in figure 2) except for age 15-29. Ages 15 to 29 shows that the number of females is slightly higher than the number of males.
The majority of Penama populations are from North Pentecost area council as presented in figure 3 with over 5,000 people followed by South Pentecost area council with less than 5,000 people. The least population is found in South Maewo area council with a population of less than 2,000 people.
2. HOUSING
Housing or dwelling is defined as a structural building or shelter that houses a nuclear or an extended family. Most of the housing materials in Vanuatu takes the form of a traditional, modern or a makeshift style. Out of the total private households in Vanuatu, 12.6% (6,959) are counted in Penama 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”.
PRIVATE HOUSEHOLDS
One of the highlights in table 2 shows that all the households (100%) in Central Pentecost are private households with no institutions or mobile households. All other nine area councils also shows that private households are being dominant with less number of institution or mobile households.
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 Penama the total population (in private households) is 31,334 and the total private households is 6,959. Therefore, the average household size is: 31,334/6,959 = 5 person per household.
3. EDUCATION
The 2016 Mini Census questionnaire includes 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..
EDUCATIONAL LEVEL
Penama statistics of children that attended school shows that majority fall at Primary Level with over 7,900 (92%) children. Area Councils with most primary students are from North Pentecost with 1,693 (21%) students. South Pentecost with 1,090 (14%) students and West Ambae with over 1,000 primary students attending Primary Schools. Whereas the rest of the Area Councils had less than 1,000 (13%) attending school
SEX RATIO
The sex ratio is simply the ratio of males to females in a population. Sex ratio tends to show if more females or males are attending school. According to Penama Province, there are more males than females attending school.
4. LABOUR FORCE
'Labour force' are the working-age population who during the survey reference week were classified as 'employed' and 'unemployed'.
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.
