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p /p p align="JUSTIFY"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bPopulation growth rate slightly decreased to 1.26 percent/b/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"The total population of Camiguin, as of August 1, 2007 was 81,293 persons. This means an increase of 7,061 persons over the total population of 74,232 persons in 2000. The annual population growth rate was recorded at 1.26 percent for the period 2000 to 2007, slightly lower by 0.62 percentage point from the 1.88 percent annual population growth rate for the period 1995 to 2000./font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"The number of households of the province rose to 17,028 households in 2007, registering an increase of 2,202 households over the 2000 figure. The average household size was 4.8 persons in 2007, slightly lower than the average household size of 5.0 persons in 2000./font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bMambajao had the largest share among the municipalities/b/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"The province of Camiguin is composed of five municipalities. Among the municipalities, Mambajao, the provincial capital, shared almost half (43.4 percent) of the population. This was followed by municipality of Catarman (19.8 percent), Mahinog (16.2 percent), and Sagay (13.8 percent). The municipality of Guinsiliban had the smallest population (6.8 percent)./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 recorded at 104/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"Male population (41,381) outnumbered their female counterpart (39,704), resulting in a sex ratio of 104 males for every 100 females. The sex ratio was reported at 103.9 in 2000./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 was recorded at 22 years/b/font/font/font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"Camiguin had a median age of 22 years, which means that half of the household population were below 22 years old. This was slightly higher than the reported median age of 21 years in 2000./font/font/font/p p align="JUSTIFY"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"font face="arial,helvetica"The proportion of persons under 15 years old to total household population was 35.9 percent. The largest proportion of young dependents was noted in age group 5 to 9 years (12.2 percent), followed by age group 10 to 14 years with a proportion of 11.9 percent./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"Males outnumbered the females in age brackets 0 to 49 years and 60 to 64 years. On the other hand, females outnumbered the males in the remaining age brackets (50 to 59 years and 65 years and over)./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 color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bMore than half of the population were in the voting-age population/b/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"Of the total household population, more than half (57.5 percent) belonged to voting-age population (18 years and over), showing an increase of 0.9 percentage point from the voting-age population reported in 2000. In 2007, males (50.7 percent) outnumbered the females among household population in the voting age group (49.3 percent)./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 color="brown" face="arial,helvetica"bYoung dependency ratio down by 3 persons/b/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"More than half (57.4 percent) belonged to working-age population (15 to 64 years). The young dependents (0 to 14 years) comprised 35.9 percent of the household population and the old dependents (65 years and over) posted a share of 6.7 percent./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"Camiguin had an overall dependency ratio of 74.1. This means that there were about 74 dependents (62 young dependents and 12 old dependents) for every 100 working-age population. In 2000, the overall dependency ratio was 75.7 or 65 young dependents and 11 old dependents./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"bMales were higher than females among singles/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 household population 10 years old and over, 45.5 percent comprised the single or never-married persons; 43.8 percent, married; 5.4 percent, widowed; 1.6 percent, divorced/separated; 3.6 percent, common-law/live-in; and 0.1 percent, unknown marital status. The proportion of single persons in 2007, was lower than the proportion of these persons in 2000 (46.9 percent). On the other hand, the proportion of married persons in 2007 (43.8 percent) was slightly higher than the corresponding proportion in 2000 (43.3 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"In 2007, the proportion of males among singles (55.9 percent) was higher than the proportion of females (44.1 percent). On the other hand, females outnumbered males in the remaining marital status./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"bFemale academic degree holders increased by 4.4 percentage points/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 5 years old and over, 35.8 percent had attended or completed elementary education and 34.3 percent had reached or completed high school. The proportion of academic degree holders was 8.6 percent, which increased by 4.4 percentage points from the figure in 2000./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"Among academic degree holders, there were more females (60.6 percent) than males (39.4 percent). Likewise, the proportion of females (61.1 percent) was higher compared to males (38.9 percent) for those with post baccalaureate courses./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"About seven out of ten (73.0 percent) of the total household population 5 to 24 years old attended school at anytime during School Year 2007 to 2008. There were more females (50.6 percent) who attended school during School Year 2007 to 2008 than males (49.4 percent)./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"bAlmost one household per occupied housing unit/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"In 2007, there were 16,880 occupied housing units which was higher by 14.6 percent from the 14,735 occupied housing units in 2000. This translated to a ratio of 101 households for every 100 occupied housing units, or a ratio of 4.8 persons per occupied housing unit. In 2000, the same ratio of 101 households for every 100 occupied housing units was noted. However, the number of persons per occupied housing (5.0 persons) was higher than the figure in 2007./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"bMajority of the occupied housing units had roofs made of strong materials/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"About 84 percent of the occupied housing units in Camiguin had roofs made of galvanized iron/aluminum. This recorded an increase of 9.1 percentage points from the proportion obtained in 2000 (75.0 percent). On the other hand, only one in 10 (11.3 percent) occupied housing units had roofs made of cogon/nipa/anahaw. Meanwhile, occupied housing units with outer walls made of concrete/brick/stone increased from 19.6 percent in 2000 to 25.0 percent in 2007./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/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" size="-1"(Sgd.) bCARMELITA N. 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