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

3.4.2 Occupation
Respondents who were currently employed or who had worked in the 12 months preceding
the survey were asked further about their occupation. The results are presented in Tables 3.6.1 and
3.6.2, which show data on employed women and men, respectively, by occupation and according to
background characteristics. Agriculture is the dominant sector of the economy of Timor-Leste, and
most employed persons work in the agricultural sector. Specifically, 61 percent of employed women
and 67 percent of employed men are engaged in agricultural jobs. Tables 3.6.1 and 3.6.2 further show
that 22 percent of women and 14 percent of men are employed in sales and service.
The survey indicates that 6 percent of employed women are manual workers (skilled and
unskilled), while 7 percent are engaged in the professional, technical, and managerial fields. The type
of occupation varies greatly by gender. Women are less likely than men to be highly educated or to
have attended vocational or technical schools. Therefore, their employment in the professional,
technical, and managerial sector is somewhat low compared with that of men (7 percent compared
with 11 percent).
Table 3.6.1 Occupation: Women
Percent distribution of women age 15-49 employed in the 12 months preceding the survey by occupation, according to background characteristics,
Timor-Leste 2009-10
Background
characteristic
Professional/
technical/
managerial
Sales and
services
Skilled
manual
Unskilled
manual
Domestic
service Agriculture Missing Total
Number of
women
Age
15-19 1.5 14.6 0.3 5.5 6.3 71.3 0.5 100.0 725
20-24 5.8 22.8 0.0 7.2 4.4 58.9 1.0 100.0 740
25-29 8.5 26.7 0.2 6.7 4.9 52.0 1.0 100.0 737
30-34 8.5 25.9 0.5 6.7 4.2 52.8 1.5 100.0 687
35-39 7.1 22.4 0.4 5.3 3.5 60.5 0.8 100.0 826
40-44 8.3 21.1 0.2 5.5 2.4 62.1 0.4 100.0 800
45-49
Marital status
5.6 19.3 0.2 4.9 1.6 68.4 0.1 100.0 671
Never married 5.7 18.2 0.0 6.4 4.1 64.4 1.3 100.0 1,360
Married or living together
Divorced/separated/
6.8 23.4 0.3 5.9 4.2 58.7 0.6 100.0 3,458
widowed
Number of living children
6.5 21.0 0.5 4.2 0.3 67.4 0.0 100.0 368
0 6.0 18.4 0.0 6.6 4.4 63.4 1.2 100.0 1,592
1-2 7.5 26.6 0.4 6.9 3.4 55.0 0.2 100.0 922
3-4 8.4 26.0 0.3 6.1 4.3 53.9 1.0 100.0 1,187
5+
Residence
4.9 19.3 0.3 4.5 3.4 67.1 0.4 100.0 1,484
Urban 15.2 44.8 0.2 10.2 7.5 19.2 2.9 100.0 1,067
Rural
District
4.3 15.9 0.3 4.9 2.9 71.6 0.2 100.0 4,119
Aileu 3.2 7.5 0.0 2.4 6.9 79.8 0.1 100.0 369
Ainaro 9.4 10.2 0.0 3.2 2.6 74.6 0.0 100.0 184
Baucau 7.8 26.1 0.4 6.7 3.0 54.6 1.3 100.0 370
Bobonaro 3.4 18.0 0.2 14.3 0.3 63.6 0.1 100.0 558
Covalima 7.6 24.3 0.0 4.0 0.0 64.1 0.0 100.0 326
Dili 17.6 48.6 0.5 12.3 5.4 11.7 4.0 100.0 740
Ermera 3.8 3.8 0.5 2.1 0.6 89.3 0.0 100.0 670
Lautem 12.7 24.8 0.0 5.7 0.3 55.5 1.0 100.0 155
Liquiçá 4.6 19.7 0.3 4.0 0.8 70.3 0.3 100.0 301
Manatuto 5.2 24.4 0.0 10.2 3.0 56.9 0.2 100.0 221
Manufahi 4.8 22.9 0.0 3.6 0.6 68.1 0.0 100.0 225
Oecussi 1.4 24.7 0.0 1.4 12.9 59.5 0.0 100.0 769
Viqueque
Education
4.4 10.3 0.7 2.8 1.6 79.8 0.4 100.0 298
No education 0.6 14.7 0.3 4.6 2.2 77.3 0.3 100.0 2,012
Primary 1.2 19.8 0.1 4.8 4.6 68.6 0.9 100.0 1,326
Secondary 13.4 30.3 0.3 8.0 5.5 41.7 0.9 100.0 1,651
More than secondary
Wealth quintile
45.6 36.9 0.0 10.3 3.2 1.3 2.7 100.0 197
Lowest 1.3 12.3 0.2 3.5 3.7 78.8 0.2 100.0 1,149
Second 1.9 13.5 0.0 3.5 2.2 78.6 0.4 100.0 1,049
Middle 3.1 13.9 0.5 4.9 3.4 73.9 0.2 100.0 1,077
Fourth 6.8 26.0 0.3 6.9 4.8 54.7 0.6 100.0 922
Highest 20.9 46.6 0.2 11.6 5.5 12.7 2.5 100.0 990
Total 6.5 21.8 0.2 5.9 3.9 60.8 0.8 100.0 5,186
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