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Annual Provincial Earnings
Fig.4 shows that the level of income through insect collection and farming have been at
their highest in Morobe province. However, the level of income in Morobe began to
decline from 2000 to 2002 at which point earnings were at a comparable level to those of
1997 and 1996. Fig.4 also indicates that the North Solomons Province has the most positive
growth in income from 1995 to 2002.
Average Provincial Income
It can be seen in Table 1 that the level of income between provinces is highly variable.
Twelve of the provinces’ incomes have averaged below 1000 Kina per annum in the 8-year
study period. These twelve provinces can be classified as Low Income (yellow shading).
Six of the Provinces have had average earnings between 1000 and 10000 Kina per annum
and have been classified as Middle Income (orange shading). Only Morobe Province had
per annum income averaging above 10000 kina, at an average of 57620. As such this is the
only province to be classified as High Income (red shading).
Patterns of Provincial Income
Figures 5 through to 23 allow a finer representation of income within individual provinces.
They illustrate that income can be highly variable and in most provinces income has been
declining over the eight-year study period. Twelve of the provinces have had very low
earnings from collecting and farming (figs. 4 to 15). Only the Eastern Highlands province
has shown continual levels of growth (fig. 19). As well as the Eastern Highlands four more
provinces had a higher level of income in 2002 than in 1995, these were Madang (fig.14),
Milne Bay (fig.16), Simbu (fig. 20) and North Solomons (fig. 21).
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