{"id":214,"date":"2007-02-02T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T09:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=214"},"modified":"2007-02-02T18:22:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T09:22:45","slug":"atlases-census-2004-and-geo-historical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Atlases &#8211; Census 2004 and Geo-historical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more useful TL government web sites is the National Statistics Directorate, otherwise known as &#8220;Direccao Nacional de Estatistica&#8221; at <a title=\"http:\/\/dne.mopf.gov.tl\" href=\"http:\/\/dne.mopf.gov.tl\">http:\/\/dne.mopf.gov.tl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have seen a paper copy of the census reports (dated September 2006) which comes in 2 booklets :<\/p>\n<p><em>Timor-Leste Census of Population and Housing 2004 &#8211; Population Projections 2004 &#8211; 2050<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Timor-Leste Census of Population and Housing 2004 &#8211; Atlas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I looked at the first and thought it a bit inpenetrable to anybody but someone keenly interested.  The Atlas version contains lots of coloured maps which are easier for me make sense of, and I intend to get myself a copy &#8211; as a momento of what things are like here when my own memory fails me one day.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure when it appeared but an abbreviated (but not readily downloadable) version is now available on the Directorate web site.  It reminded me to put acquisition of a copy on the todo list.<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting numbers (from 2004) :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Population : total 923,198 ; Dili 173,541 (2010 projected : 1,149,028)<\/li>\n<li>19% of population in Dili (trending upwards rapidly)<\/li>\n<li>103 males per 100 females (but trending lower outside Dili, down to as low as 89)<\/li>\n<li>Mean number of people per household : 4.7<\/li>\n<li>Median age : 18.3<\/li>\n<li>Age distribution is uniformly suggesting high birthrates and high deathrates, the only blip being in males of 25 to 29 years.<\/li>\n<li>Agriculture is by far the biggest &#8220;employer&#8221; with 27% of al families involved in coffee growing<\/li>\n<li>Language proficiency in Dili : Tetun 75% ; Indonesian 71% ; Portuguese 19% ; English 12%<\/li>\n<li>Illiteracy : Total 54% ; Dili 26%<\/li>\n<li>High school graduates : Total 15% ; Dili 38%<\/li>\n<li>Fertility rate (babies per woman) : Total 7 (the highest in the world) ; Dili 4.5 (lowest district value in Dili which is still very high)<\/li>\n<li>Infant mortality (1st year of birth) : 98 per 1,000 (very high)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A recent acquisition and recent appearance (at the Hotel Timor gift shop) is the &#8220;East Timor Geo-Historical Atlas&#8221; by Frederic Durand (published by Silkwork Books in 2006).  It is an English translation of the French &#8220;Timor Lorosa&#8217;e, pays au carrefour de l&#8217;Asie et du Pacifique&#8221; published in 2000.  It has some updates but is basically the 2000 version in English.  As it has a historic rather than geographical \/social emphasis (like say the census), it probably does not suffer too much from this.  Locally, it is US$45 which may be a bit pricey but compared to what !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more useful TL government web sites is the National Statistics Directorate, otherwise known as &#8220;Direccao Nacional de Estatistica&#8221; at http:\/\/dne.mopf.gov.tl I have seen a paper copy of the census reports (dated September 2006) which comes in 2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}