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- School attendance
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- Qualifications
- Literacy
Summary Indicators by Citizen and Non-Citizen
| Citizen population | 2011 | 2000 | 1990 | 1980 | |
| Attending school (% of population aged 5-29 years) | Total | 35.0 | 26.4 | 20.3 | 20.6(a) |
| Male | 37.1 | 28.1 | 21.9 | 23.1(a) | |
| Female | 32.8 | 24.7 | 18.4 | 17.8(a) | |
| Ever been to school (% of population aged 5 years and over) | Total | 56.6 | 50.9 | .. | .. |
| Male | 60.1 | 55.4 | na | na | |
| Female | 52.7 | 46.2 | na | na | |
| Grade 10 highest completed (% of population aged 5 years and over who attended school in the past) | Total | 22.1 | 17.7 | .. | .. |
| Male | 24.1 | 20.0 | na | na | |
| Female | 19.6 | 14.8 | na | na | |
| Grade 12 highest completed (% of population aged 5 years and over who attended school in the past) | Total | 6.6 | 2.4 | .. | .. |
| Male | 8.0 | 3.2 | na | na | |
| Female | 4.9 | 1.4 | na | na | |
| With qualification (% of population aged 15 years and over) | Total | 5.5 | 5.3 | .. | .. |
| Male | 7.3 | 7.2 | na | na | |
| Female | 3.7 | 3.4 | na | na | |
| Literate (% of population aged 10 years and over) | Total | 67.6 | 56.2 | 45.1 | .. |
| Male | 71.1 | 61.2 | 49.5 | na | |
| Female | 64.0 | 50.9 | 40.3 | na |
(a) Aged 5-24 Years
Source: 2011 National Population and Housing Census
Source: 2011 National Population and Housing Census
| Non-citizen population | 2011 | 2000 | 1990 | 1980 | |
| Attending school (% of population aged 5-29 years) | Total | 43.1 | 47.6 | na | na |
| Male | 41.6 | 47.2 | na | na | |
| Female | 45.2 | 48.1 | na | na | |
| Ever been to school (% of population aged 5 years and over) | Total | 66.2 | 86.7 | na | na |
| Male | 61.9 | 88.3 | na | na | |
| Female | 73.8 | 84.1 | na | na | |
| Grade 10 highest completed ((% of population aged 5 years and over who attended school in the past) | Total | 16.1 | 17.3 | na | na |
| Male | 17.5 | 17.2 | na | na | |
| Female | 14 | 17.4 | na | na | |
| Grade 12 highest completed (% of population aged 5 years and over who attended school in the past) | Total | 44.5 | 55.9 | na | na |
| Male | 46.7 | 58 | na | na | |
| Female | 40.9 | 52.3 | na | na | |
| With qualification (% of population aged 15 years and over) | Total | 29.2 | 52.2 | na | na |
| Male | 28.9 | 56.6 | na | na | |
| Female | 29.7 | 44.6 | na | na | |
| Literate (% of population aged 10 years and over) | Total | 83.2 | 85.8 | na | na |
| Male | 85.9 | 87 | na | na | |
| Female | 79.4 | 83.7 | na | na |
(a) Aged 5-24 Years
Source: 2011 National Population and Housing Census
Source: 2011 National Population and Housing Census
Indicators
About 57% of the citizen population aged 5 years and over had received some form of schooling either in the past (2,194,000) or currently attending (1,334,000).
| Sectors | Total | Attending now | Attended in the past | Never attended | Not stated | ||||
| All sectors | |||||||||
| Persons | 6,358,791 | 1,333,675 | 2,194,166 | 2,710,280 | 120,670 | ||||
| Males | 3,288,709 | 731,837 | 1,207,516 | 1,287,292 | 62,064 | ||||
| Females | 3,070,082 | 601,838 | 986,650 | 1,422,988 | 58,606 | ||||
| Urban | |||||||||
| Persons | 788,837 | 200,879 | 401,175 | 169,654 | 17,129 | ||||
| Males | 413,937 | 107,555 | 218,449 | 78,985 | 8,948 | ||||
| Females | 374,900 | 93,324 | 182,726 | 90,669 | 8,181 | ||||
| Rural | |||||||||
| Persons | 5,569,954 | 1,132,796 | 1,792,991 | 2,540,626 | 103,541 | ||||
| Males | 2,874,772 | 624,282 | 989,067 | 1,208,307 | 53,116 | ||||
| Females | 2,695,182 | 508,514 | 803,924 | 1,332,319 | 50,425 |
Source: 2011 National Population and Housing Census
More than a third (35%) of persons aged 5-29 years were attending school in 2011, 42% in the urban sector and 34% in the rural sector.
| Highest grade completed | Total | Urban | Rural | ||||||
| Persons | Males | Females | Persons | Males | Females | Persons | Males | Females | |
| Total | 1,333,675 | 731,837 | 601,838 | 200,879 | 107,555 | 93,324 | 1,132,796 | 624,282 | 508,514 |
| Current attendance rate | 35 | 37.1 | 32.8 | 41.6 | 43 | 40.1 | 34.1 | 36.2 | 31.8 |
| None | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 8.8 |
| Grade 1 | 13.9 | 13.5 | 14.4 | 12.1 | 12 | 12.3 | 14.2 | 13.7 | 14.7 |
| Grade 2 | 11.4 | 11.1 | 11.8 | 9.8 | 9.6 | 10 | 11.7 | 11.4 | 12.1 |
| Grade 3 | 10.5 | 10.3 | 10.8 | 9 | 8.9 | 9.2 | 10.8 | 10.6 | 11.1 |
| Grade 4 | 9.6 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 9.8 | 9.7 | 9.9 |
| Grade 5 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 8 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 8.9 |
| Grade 6-7 | 16.3 | 16.3 | 16.3 | 15.3 | 15.1 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.6 | 16.4 |
| Grade 8-9 | 12.3 | 12.8 | 11.8 | 14.4 | 14.5 | 14.2 | 12 | 12.5 | 11.4 |
| Grade 10-12 | 8.9 | 9.8 | 7.8 | 15.3 | 16.3 | 14.2 | 7.8 | 8.7 | 6.6 |
Most school age population were clustered in the lower grades (Grades 1 and 2) particularly in the rural sector (26%)
Overall, 21% of males held teaching qualifications, 15% with university degree qualification and 13% with vocational college while 29% of females held teaching qualifications and 21% held business and secretarial qualifications.
| Type of qualification | Total | Urban | Rural | ||||||
| Persons | Males | Females | Persons | Males | Females | Persons | Males | Females | |
| Total | 222,493 | 148,008 | 74,485 | 82,904 | 52,217 | 30,687 | 139,589 | 95,791 | 43,798 |
| Protective services | 2.7 | 3.5 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 4.1 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 1 |
| Vocational college | 10.9 | 13 | 6.6 | 7.3 | 9.4 | 3.6 | 13.1 | 15 | 8.8 |
| Technical college | 8.4 | 10.9 | 3.4 | 8.7 | 12.1 | 2.9 | 8.2 | 10.2 | 3.7 |
| Tradesman/ apprenticeship | 3.8 | 5.4 | 0.6 | 4.2 | 6.2 | 0.7 | 3.6 | 5 | 0.5 |
| Business and secretarial college | 12.6 | 8.3 | 21.3 | 19.1 | 12.5 | 30.3 | 8.8 | 5.9 | 15 |
| Teachers college | 23.7 | 20.9 | 29.1 | 12 | 9 | 17.1 | 30.6 | 27.5 | 37.7 |
| Health college | 5 | 2.7 | 9.5 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 8.1 | 5.6 | 3.3 | 10.6 |
| University/public admin. College | 8.3 | 8.6 | 7.6 | 10.8 | 10.9 | 10.7 | 6.8 | 7.3 | 5.4 |
| University degree | 13.3 | 14.8 | 10.4 | 20.8 | 23.6 | 16.1 | 8.8 | 9.9 | 6.4 |
| Other miscellaneous | 11.4 | 11.8 | 10.5 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 9.7 | 12 | 12.5 | 11 |
Source: 2011 National Population and Housing Census
English had a literacy rate of 49% and Tokples was 56%. Males had higher literacy rates than females
in all languages.
| Total | Urban | Rural | ||||||||
| Persons | Males | Females | Persons | Males | Females | Persons | Males | Females | ||
| Total | 67.6 | 71.1 | 64.0 | 88.9 | 90.7 | 86.8 | 64.6 | 68.2 | 60.7 | |
| Literate in English | 48.9 | 53.0 | 44.5 | 75.9 | 78.9 | 72.4 | 45.1 | 49.2 | 40.6 | |
| Literate in Pidgin | 57.4 | 61.6 | 52.9 | 81 | 83.6 | 78.1 | 54 | 58.4 | 49.3 | |
| Literate in Motu | 4.7 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 13.9 | 14.7 | 12.9 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 2.8 | |
| Literate in Tokples | 55.8 | 50.3 | 43.7 | 68.3 | 65.2 | 59.4 | 54 | 48.1 | 41.4 |
Source: 2011 National Population and Housing Census
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