Leyte's Three Cities Comprised One-Third of the Total Population of the Province (Results from the 2007 Census of Population)

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p /p p align="JUSTIFY"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bPopulation increased by 132,068 persons/b/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"Leyte had a total population of 1,724,240 persons as of August 1, 2007, higher by 132,068 persons compared with the census count of 1,592,172 persons as of May 1, 2000. These figures translated to an annual population growth rate of 1.10 percent for the period 2000 to 2007./font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"The household population of Leyte in 2007 was 1,717,519 persons, an increase of 8.1 percent from 1,588,591 persons in 2000. The number of households increased by 13.2 percent from 322,579 in 2000 to 365,128 in 2007. The average household size in 2007 was 4.7 persons, lower than the average household size of 4.9 persons in 2000./font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bTacloban City remained on top in terms of population size/b/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"Among the 40 municipalities and 3 cities of Leyte, Tacloban City, the provincial capital, had the biggest population size in 2007. It contributed 12.7 percent to the total population of the province. It was followed by the cities of Ormoc (10.4 percent) and Baybay (5.9 percent). These were also the top three most populated areas in the province in 2000. The combined population of these cities comprised one-third of the total population of the province. The municipality of Tunga was the least populated (0.4 percent) in both the 2000 and 2007 censuses./font/font/font/p p align="center" /p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bSex ratio was 105 males per 100 females/b/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"Of the 1,717,519 household population of Leyte, 51.3 percent were males while 48.7 percent were females, or a sex ratio of 105 males for every 100 females. In 2000, the sex ratio was 104 males per 100 females./font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bMedian age increased to 20 years/b/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"In 2007, the median age of the household population of the province was 20 years, which means that half of the household population were younger than 20 years old. The median age in 2000 was 19 years./font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"Children aged 10 to 14 years comprised the largest age group, with 12.9 percent share to the total household population. This was followed closely by age groups 5 to 9 years old (12.7 percent) and 0 to 4 years old (12.1 percent)./font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="center" /p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"There were more males than females in age groups 0 to 59 years old while females outnumbered males in age groups 60 years old and over./font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bMales among the voting-age population outnumbered females/b/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"The size of the voting-age population (18 years old and over) of Leyte in 2007 was 55.3 percent of the household population. In 2000, the voting-age population was 53.5 percent of the household population. In 2007, males of voting-age (50.9 percent) outnumbered females (49.1)./font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bDependents decreased to 75 persons per 100 persons in the working-age population/b/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"Of the total household population, 57.1 percent belonged to the working-age population (15 to 64 years). Young dependents (under 15 years) comprised 37.7 percent while old dependents (65 years and over) accounted for 5.2 percent./font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"The overall dependency ratio of household population in Leyte in 2007 was 75. This ratio means that for every 100 persons in the working-age population, there were 75 dependents (66 young dependents and 9 old dependents). In 2000, the overall dependency ratio was 80 dependents (72 young dependents and 8 old dependents) per 100 persons in the working-age population./font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bMore never-married males than females/b/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"Of the household population 10 years old and over, 44.1 percent were never married while 43.3 percent were married. The remaining proportion was either widowed (4.8 percent), divorced/separated (1.1 percent), had common-law/live-in marital arrangement (6.1 percent), or had unknown marital status (0.5 percent). Males (55.8 percent) outnumbered females (44.2 percent) in the never-married category. But there were more females than males in the rest of the categories for marital status./font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bMore females pursued higher levels of education than males/b/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"Less than half (46.4 percent) of the household population 5 years old and over had attended or completed elementary education, 26.3 percent had reached or finished high school, 6.5 percent were college undergraduates, and 7.3 percent were academic degree holders./font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"More females than males pursued higher levels of education as 56.7 percent of those with academic degrees and 55.3 percent of those who had taken post baccalaureate courses were females./font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bSix in every ten persons aged 5 to 24 years attended school/b/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"Among the household population 5 to 24 years old, 62.6 percent had attended school at anytime during School Year 2007 to 2008. Of the total females aged 5 to 24 years, 65.2 percent had attended school at anytime during the said school year. School attendance for males, meanwhile, was 60.1 percent of the total males aged 5 to 24 years./font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bRatio of 101 households per 100 occupied housing units remain unchanged/b/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"In 2007, there were 362,513 occupied housing units in Leyte. This is 13.7 percent higher than the number of occupied housing units recorded in 2000. A ratio of 101 households per 100 occupied housing units was recorded in 2007, the same ratio was reported in 2000. Moreover, the number of persons per occupied housing unit was 4.7 persons in 2007, lower than the ratio of 5.0 persons per occupied housing unit in 2000./font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bUse of strong materials for outer walls and roof increased/b/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"Of the occupied housing units in Leyte, 31.0 percent had outer walls made of bamboo/sawali/cogon/nipa, while 62.5 percent had roofs made of galvanized iron/aluminum. Use of concrete/brick/stone for the outer walls increased by 5.5 percentage points, from 20.7 percent in 2000 to 26.2 percent in 2007 while use of cogon/nipa/anahaw as roofs decreased by 9.8 percentage points, from 39.6 percent in 2000 to 29.8 percent in 2007./font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica" /font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/font/p p style="text-align: -webkit-left; " /p table border="0" width="100%" tbody tr td colspan="80%" /td td align="CENTER" nowrap="nowrap"font face="arial,helvetica" style="text-align: -webkit-left; "font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="Arial" size="-1"(Sgd.) bCARMELITA N. 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