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Solomon Islands Government Statistical Bulletin 06/2011 REPORT ON 2009 POPULATION & HOUSING CENSUS Basic Tables and Census Description Solomon Islands National Statistics Office Solomon Islands2009 Population and Housing Census CONTENTS Introduction................................................................................................................................................................ iv Map Of Solomon Islands .......................................................................................................................................... vi Section A: Tables1 ...................................................................................................................................................... 1 Summary of main Indicators, Solomon Islands: 2009........................................................................................................................1 I. Population Characteristics.............................................................................................................................................................3 P1.1: Total population and number of private households, by census year and province, Solomon Islands: 1970- 2009 .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................3 P1.2: Total population by sex and number of private households and institutions by urban-rural distribution and ward, Solomon Islands: 2009........................................................................................................................................................................4 P2.1: Total population by 5-year age groups and sex, province and ward, Solomon Islands: 2009...............................9 P2.2: Male population by 5-year age groups and sex, province and ward, Solomon Islands: 2009 ............................14 P2.3: Female population by 5-year age groups and sex, province and ward, Solomon Islands: 2009........................19 P2.4: Total population by 5-year age groups and sex, and urban-rural residence, Solomon Islands: 2009..............24 II. Household Characteristics ..........................................................................................................................................................25 H1: Number of private household by number of occupants by sex, and average household size, by ward and urban-rural distribution, Solomon Islands: 2009 ...............................................................................................................................25 H2: Population living in private households by sex and relationship to head of household, by province and urban- rural residence, Solomon Islands: 2009.................................................................................................................................................30 H3: Number of private households by type of living quarters, by province and ward, Solomon Islands: 2009.....31 H4: Main material used for walls, floors, and roof by province and urban-rural distribution, Solomon Islands: 2009 ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................35 H5: Number of private households by number of rooms, by province and urban-rural distribution, Solomon Islands: 2009.....................................................................................................................................................................................................36 H6: Number of private households by main source of drinking water by province, Solomon Islands: 2009..........37 H7: Number of private households by main source of washing water by province, Solomon Islands: 2009..........37 H8: Number of private households by main toilet facility by province, Solomon Islands: 2009..................................38 H9: Number of private households by main form of household rubbish disposal by province, Solomon Islands: 2009 ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 H10: Number of private households by main source of lighting by province, Solomon Islands: 2009 .....................38 H11: Number of private households by main source of cooking energy by province, Solomon Islands: 2009......39 ii Solomon Islands National Statistics Office Solomon Islands2009 Population and Housing Census H12: Number of private households by housing tenure by province, Solomon Islands: 2009.......................................39 H13: Number of private households by land tenure by province, Solomon Islands: 2009..............................................39 H14: Number of private households by number of bednets (insecticide treated) by province, Solomon Islands: 2009 ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................40 Section B: Outline On Contents of Volume I, Print Version............................................................................41 Part 1: Census Operation and Procedures.........................................................................................................................................41 Part 2: Table Specification ......................................................................................................................................................................41 Part 3: Contains The Appendices .........................................................................................................................................................45 iii Introduction This Statistical Bulletin 06 /2011 is an electronic publication containing only 50 pages of the 331-paged detailed print-version census result report entitled Volume I Report on 2009 Population And Housing Census: Basic Tables and Census Description. Volume I is the first of two major volumes covering the 2009 Solomon Islands population and housing census. The second, which will be released at a later date, is Volume II Report on 2009 Population and Housing Census: Analyses. The release of the detailed results follows on from preliminary result released in November 2010; one year after the census enumeration was conducted in November 2009. This publication, presents Part 2 of the main report (Volume I Report on 2009 Population And Housing Census: Basic Tables and Census Description) and as indicated above, contains only 21 tables of the census result, and as such includes 1 Summary Table, which presents the summary of the questionnaire of the Solomon Islands 2009 population and housing census, 6 Tables on Population Characteristics and 14 Tables on Household Characteristics. The tables are processed with the assumption that they can be used by a wide range of audience; however they are specifically meant for users with some statistical background such as planners, researchers, specialists, and donor representatives. The set of tables presented here adheres to United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses and continue to maintain the standard of comparability with the previous censuses. Though there may have been slight changes to the numbering and ordering of the tables in each group, as well as situations where the titles may have been changed due to the structure and the format of the tables processed. It is important to note that table numbering starts with a ‘P’ for Person tables and ‘H’ for Household tables. The contributions of many people and organizations both in and outside of Solomon Islands towards the successful accomplishment of the 2009 Population and Housing Census dovetailed work-plan ought to be acknowledged. These include; the Minister of Finance and Treasury, under whose jurisdiction the 2009 Population and Housing Census for Solomon Islands was allowed to be undertaken; Mr Shadrach Fanega, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Treasury for his greatest understanding. unwavering support and patriotism for this national project, in seeking, advising and maintaining the census project funding requirements as per his budgetary support throughout the census project; Mr Martin Butterfield for his initial contribution on the strategic census planning and management; Ms. Elizabeth Kausimae the Under Secretary (US) Finance, Ministry of Finance and Treasury, as chairperson of the Census Population Management Committee (CPMC), for her leadership and coordination of the committee. To all the members of the committees, for their valuable contributions and suggestions, in making the census operations work efficiently. Many thanks are extended to the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) for the technical assistance initiated and provided. Firstly to the Demography and Statistics Programme Manager, Dr. Gerald Habercorn, for his leadership and management support of SPC assistance; to SPC Demographer, Mr. Arthur Jorari, for his worthwhile assistance in reviewing the census training manual and training, advise and contribution in the overall census operations, to GIS Specialist, Mr. Phil Bright, for setting-