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Davao Oriental Household Population 

(Results from the 2015 Census of Population)

Household population comprised 99.65 percent of the total population

 

  • The household population of Davao Oriental reached 557,025 persons in 2015. This is 40,550 higher than the 516,475 household population reported in 2010, and 111,292 more than the 445,733 household population posted in 2000.

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  • The household population comprised 99.65 percent of the total population of Davao Oriental, while the remaining 0.35 percent is comprised of the institutional population or those residing in collective or institutional living quarters such as hotels, hospitals, orphanages and home for the aged, corrective and penal institutions and military camps. Please refer to Table 1 and Figure 1.

Number of households increased by 15,011 from 113,563 in 2010 to 128,574 in 2015
 

  • The total number of households in the province in 2015 was recorded at 128,574, higher by 15,011 compared with 113,563 in 2010 and by 42,005 compared with 86,569 in 2000. See Table 2 and Figure 2.

  • City of Mati, the province’s capital and lone city, had the most number of households with 32,492.

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  • Of the province’s ten (10) municipalities, municipality of Lupon had the highest number of households with 15,250, followed by Baganga with 13,355 and Governor Generoso with 12,738. The municipality of Boston posted the least number of households with  3,216. Refer to Table 3.

 

Average household size was 4.3 persons in 2015

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  • Davao Oriental’s average household size (AHS) decreased from 4.5 persons in 2010 to 4.3 persons in 2015. In 2000, there were 5.1 persons, on average, per household.
     

  • The municipality of San Isidro registered the highest average household size of 4.6 persons, followed by the municipality of Tarragona with an AHS of 4.5 persons. Municipalities of Banaybanay, Caraga and Manay all registered an AHS of 4.4 persons.
     

  • The lowest AHS of 4.2 persons was recorded in the municipalities of Baganga, Boston and Cateel. Please refer to Table 3.

TECHNICAL NOTES

 

  • Household population comprises of persons who belong to a household. In determining household membership, the basic criterion is the usual place of residence or the place where the person usually resides. This may be the same or different from the place where he/she is found at the time of the census. As a rule it is the place where he/she usually sleeps.

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  • Institutional population comprises of persons who are found living in institutional living quarters (ILQs). They may have their own families or households elsewhere but at the time of the census, they are committed or confined in institutions, or they live in ILQs and are usually subject to a common authority or management, or are bound by either a common public objective or a common personal interest.

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  • Average household size (AHS) is a measure obtained by dividing the number of persons in households by the number of households.

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  • The POPCEN 2015 was undertaken by the Philippine Statistics Authority in August 2015 pursuant to Republic Act No. 10625, also known as the Philippine Statistical Act of 2013 and Executive Order No. 352 – Designation of Statistical Activities That Will Generate Critical Data for Decision-Making of the Government and the Private Sector, which stipulates the conduct of a mid-decade census primarily to update the population count in all barangays nationwide.

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  • Information on the count of the population were collected with 12:01 a.m. of August 1, 2015 as the census reference time and date.

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  • His Excellency President Benigno S. Aquino III declared as official for all purposes the population counts by province, city/municipality, and barangay, based on the POPCEN 2015 under Proclamation No. 1269 dated 13 May 2016. The population counts were based on census questionnaires accomplished by about 90,000 enumerators deployed during the nationwide census taking.

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  • The successful completion of the census-taking was made possible with the support of the
    local and national officials, government agencies, local government units, media, private
    agencies, and non-government organizations.

ROGELIO T. LEBRIA

(Supervising Statistical Specialist)

Officer-In-Charge

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