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

Table 3.2.1 Educational attainment: Women
Percent distribution of women age 15-49 by highest level of schooling attended or completed, and median years completed,
according to background characteristics, Timor-Leste 2009-10
Background
characteristic
No
education
Some
primary
Highest level of schooling
Completed
primary 1
Some
secondary
Completed
secondary 2
More than
secondary
Total
Median
years
completed
Number of
women
Age
15-24 13.4 13.3 6.9 47.8 15.5 3.0 100.0 7.7 5,487
15-19 11.8 13.4 6.5 61.6 6.4 0.3 100.0 7.4 3,144
20-24 15.6 13.2 7.6 29.3 27.8 6.5 100.0 8.6 2,343
25-29 24.7 13.3 11.5 19.9 25.4 5.3 100.0 6.3 1,897
30-34 30.5 13.4 13.4 17.9 19.3 5.4 100.0 5.5 1,534
35-39 37.9 15.2 12.3 16.9 15.0 2.7 100.0 4.4 1,684
40-44 54.8 15.1 7.2 9.9 10.6 2.4 100.0 a 1,388
45-49
Residence
68.3 16.2 4.7 5.0 3.9 1.9 100.0 a 1,146
Urban 14.5 10.1 5.8 30.6 28.8 10.2 100.0 11.2 3,439
Rural
District
34.6 15.4 10.0 27.9 11.2 1.0 100.0 5.0 9,698
Aileu 31.4 15.3 9.6 32.6 10.3 0.8 100.0 5.3 554
Ainaro 39.9 10.7 5.9 28.5 13.4 1.7 100.0 4.8 619
Baucau 27.1 15.6 7.0 31.5 17.4 1.5 100.0 6.0 1,408
Bobonaro 39.6 14.6 10.1 24.3 10.1 1.3 100.0 4.1 1,262
Covalima 21.7 15.1 10.5 36.4 14.6 1.7 100.0 6.6 781
Dili 10.5 9.8 5.2 29.5 31.7 13.3 100.0 12.5 2,466
Ermera 49.3 12.9 8.2 21.6 7.6 0.2 100.0 1.2 1,542
Lautem 20.2 13.6 12.8 38.2 14.2 1.0 100.0 6.5 864
Liquiçá 33.5 19.1 7.9 27.1 11.6 0.8 100.0 4.5 801
Manatuto 24.5 15.9 8.9 30.5 18.9 1.4 100.0 6.0 603
Manufahi 27.2 14.4 8.1 34.3 14.5 1.5 100.0 6.0 470
Oecussi 41.0 17.6 18.4 16.6 5.5 0.9 100.0 3.4 884
Viqueque
Wealth quintile
32.1 15.4 9.5 29.7 11.8 1.6 100.0 5.2 882
Lowest 49.0 19.1 10.3 18.0 3.4 0.1 100.0 0.9 2,314
Second 40.8 17.8 9.8 24.6 6.8 0.2 100.0 3.3 2,468
Middle 33.2 14.5 10.4 30.4 10.8 0.7 100.0 5.2 2,590
Fourth 22.7 13.1 9.2 34.4 17.5 3.0 100.0 7.0 2,687
Highest 8.0 7.4 5.4 33.0 35.1 11.1 100.0 13.1 3,077
Total 29.3 14.0 8.9 28.6 15.8 3.4 100.0 5.7 13,137
1 Completed grade 6 at the primary level
2 Completed grade 12 at the secondary level
a = Omitted because less than 50 percent of women had any education before reaching the beginning of the age group.
Educational attainment is directly related to the economic status of respondents. An analysis
of education by wealth quintile indicates that women in the highest wealth quintile are most likely to
complete secondary or a higher level of education. For example, nearly one in two women in the
highest wealth quintile has completed secondary or higher education, compared with less than 4
percent of women in the lowest wealth quintile.
A similar pattern in educational attainment is found among men (Table 3.2.2). However, men
are more educated than women in all categories. One in five men has never had formal schooling, one
in five has some primary education, one in thirteen has completed primary school, three in ten have
some secondary education, and more than one in four men has completed secondary or higher
education.
Women have completed a median of 6 years of schooling compared with 7 years for men.
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