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Percentage of literate population aged 15 and more to total population aged 15 and more in a given area.
2. Age
Dependency Ratio
Percentage of the population in the younger (0-14) and older age groups (65+), to the population in the age group 15-64.
This is the average number of
persons in normal or regular households (i.e. excluding institutional and
homeless households
and households of boat and transient population).
4. Density of Population
This refers to employed and
unemployed population among those aged 7 and more. A person was categorized in
the census
as employed or unemployed based on his/her main activity during the
year preceding the census. Main activity is defined as
the activity during 6
months (183 days) or more during that year.
Educational
level refers to completed level. The classification of educational level adopted
is shown below along with the
corresponding grades completed within brackets:
Primary
Not Completed (1 to 5), Primary (6 to 8), Lower Secondary (9 to 11), Secondary
School/Diploma (12 to 13),
Undergraduate (14), Graduate/Degree Holder (15) and
Post Graduate (16).
7. General Activity Rate (or Labour Force Participation
Rate)
Percentage of economically active population to population aged 7 and above.
Head
of household for census purposes is a person who is recognized as such in a
household. He or she is generally the
person who bears the chief responsibility
for the management of the household and takes decisions on behalf of the
household. Head of the household is not necessarily the eldest male member, but
may be a female member or a younger
member of either sex.
A
household is a group of persons who commonly live together and would take their
meals from a common kitchen unless
the exigencies of work prevented any of them
from doing so.
10. Literacy
Ability
to read and write with understanding in any language. By definition all children
of the age of 6 years or less are treated
as illiterate. Hence general literacy
rate is calculated as the percentage of literate persons in total population
excluding
children aged 0 to 6.
Those
who had their previous residence outside the place (village) of enumeration.
Recent Migrants refers to persons who
had moved to the place of enumeration from another previous
residence within the 5 years preceding the census date
(March 3, 1998).
12. Population Projections
Population projections constitute an essential tool
for development planning. For the Cambodia projections the base date
was chosen as January 1, 2001, the starting date of the
Second Five Year Development Plan of the Royal Government of
Cambodia. With certain assumptions of fertility, mortality
and migration, the 1998 population was initially adjusted for
January 1, 2001. The set of projections extends for four
five-year periods until January 1, 2021. The "PEOPLE" software
package was used for the projections.
Number of males per 100 females in a population.
This is an indirect method to estimate mean age at first
marriage. This is applied for calculating age at marriage. In short, this
method
is used to approximate the mean number of years lived by an assumed cohort of
women before their first marriage on
the basis of the data as the percentage
never-married or single by age.
15.
Urban and Rural
In all provinces, districts
containing provincial headquarter towns are treated as urban areas. Krong Preah
Sihanouk, Krong
Kaeb and Krong Pailin are treated as entirely urban. In Phnom
Penh municipality, the four districts or Khands of Doun
Penh, Chamkar Mon,
Prampir Meakkakra and Tuol Kouk are classified as urban. All the remaining areas
in the country
are treated as rural.
