Page 23 - Social Indicators 2013

12
National Statistical Office
Table 1.2 Migrated Person by Type of Migration: 2009 and 2011-2013
Type of Migration 2009 2011 2012 2013
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Migration within region 46.5 49.8 49.6 53.7
Within province 29.3 28.7 31.2 33.3
Between province 17.2 21.0 18.4 20.4
Migration between region 50.7 47.5 47.4 42.8
Aboard 2.8 2.8 3.0 3.5
Source: The Migration Survey : 2009 and 2011-2013, National Statistical Office.
1.2.2 Urbanization
The study of the distribution and density of the population living in
urban and rural area is important for guiding the public sector in setting up plans
and policies for the infrastructure and appropriate allocating the resources to
each area. The private sector could also be able to use this indicator to set up
marketing plan for their businesses.
In the last two decades, the major change which affected the distribution
of the population living in municipal and rural areas were local empowerment policy
in 1997 then upgrading thousands of sanitary districts to be municipal areas in 2000.
With these changes the population in municipal area increased up to 31.1% (in 2000).
Including the migration phenomenon nowadays, the population in municipal area
increased up to 44.2% (Population and Housing Census 2010).
Table 1.3 Population by Area: 1990-2010
Area 1990 2000 2010
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
Municipal 29.4 31.1 44.2
Non-Municipal 70.6 68.9 55.8
Source: Population and Housing Census: 1990-2010, National Statistical Office.