Social and Economic Characteristics Volume 3 (ENGLISH)

It is with great pleasure that I present the main
results of the 2010 Population and Housing Census
in Timor-Leste. The publications, in a set of three,
provide detailed statistics on the characteristics of
the Timorese population and households. The fi nal
results are based on detailed scrutiny and tabulation
of the data relating to each and every individual
enumerated in the census. The final population
figure of 1,066,409 people confi rms the preliminary
population total published in October 2010, with a
marginal difference.
The information contained in this set of publications coupled with the
census database and the GIS platform is key milestone in our quest towards
building our country. With these information, the strategic and comprehensive
approach towards development planning in our country can now
be accelerated. Similarly, the Government resources and contributions
from our development partners can now be better targeted and utilized to
produce the desired results particularly in our key priority sectors.
We, therefore, recommend that these detailed statistics be used from hereon
in all our in-country development planning initiatives and in projecting the
potentials of our country with the outside world.
The 2010 Census would not have materialized without the full backing of
the Government of Timor-Leste, including the provision of much-needed
resources to undertake the work. Our special gratitude also goes to our people
for their active and generous cooperation during the entire census process.
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Likewise, our gratitude goes to the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA) for complementing the efforts of the Government by providing
technical, fi nancial and administrative support throughout the entire census
process. In addition, and through its conduct of intensive trainings in population
and development area, UNFPA has helped build the capacity of some key staff
members in the National Statistics Directorate. We also appreciate the support
delivered by the National Statistics Offi ce of the Republic of Indonesia on the
secondment of some of their personnel during the training of the fi eld staff,
fi eld enumeration, and data processing phases of the census process.
Lastly, to the members of the National Census Steering Committee and the
Census Technical Committee, management and staff of the National Statistics
Directorate, national and international professionals who worked for extra
hours during the planning, data collection, data processing and report
writing phases of the census, thank you all for your commitment and
dedication which resulted in this excellent work.
We sincerely hope that all active development stakeholders in the country,
development partners, researchers and the general public as a whole will fi nd
these publications useful.
Emilia Pires
Minister of Finance, Timor-Leste
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