Demographic and Health Survey 2009-10 - Timor-Leste Ministry of ...

The percentage of children not living with a biological parent increases with age from 4
percent of children age 0-4 years to 19 percent of children age 15-17 years. The highest proportion of
children not living with a parent is in Bobonaro and Covalima (12 percent each), and the lowest is in
Lautem and Oecussi (7 percent each). By wealth status, the proportion of children under age 18 not
living with a natural parent rises from 8 percent among those in the lowest two wealth quintiles to 12
percent among those in the highest wealth quintile.
Table 2.3.1 Children’s living arrangements and orphanhood
Percent distribution of de jure children under age 18 by living arrangements and survival status of parents, the percentage of children not living with a biological parent,
and the percentage of children with one or both parents dead, according to background characteristics, Timor-Leste 2009-10
Background
characteristic
Living
with
both
parents
Living with
mother but not
with father
Father
alive
Father
dead
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Living with father
but not with
mother Not living with either parent
Mother
alive
Mother
dead
Both
alive
Only
father
alive
Only
mother
alive
Both
dead
Missing
information
on father/
mother Total
Percentage
not living
with a
biological
parent
Percentage
with one or
both
parents
dead 1
Number
of
children
Age
0-4 88.6 5.5 1.5 0.5 0.3 3.0 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.0 100.0 3.7 2.5 10,075