4.! Population with disability
II. Household and housing
5.2 Household composition
According to the relationship among household members, a household can be categorized into three types of household composition: “one-person household”, “nuclear household” and “no nuclear household”.
g A household consists of at least one resident population, excluding collective living quarters.
z One-person household
The proportion of “one-person household” living alone went up by 1.3 percentage points over 2001 to 18.4%, of which the increment coincided by the tendency towards smaller household size.
z Nuclear households
A family nucleus is formed by a couple or a single parent with unmarried children. A
“nuclear household” refers to a household with one or more family nuclei. In Macao, 74.2%
of the households were “nuclear households”, down by 2.0 percentage points compared with 2001.
z No nuclear households
“No nuclear household” refers to a household with two or more unrelated members that do not form a family nucleus. In Macao, 7.4% of the households were “No nuclear households”, up by 0.8 percentage point over 2001.
An analysis of the land-based household composition by parish revealed that Coloane Island had the largest share of “one-person household” (26.6%) and the Nossa Senhora de Fátima parish had replaced São Lázaro parish to account for the largest proportion of
“nuclear household” (76.8%). On the contrary, Sé parish had the lowest percentage share of nuclear households (62.7%), down by 9.2 percentage points from 5 years ago.
5.3 Possession and usage of computers h
In Macao, 68.1% of the households had computers at home, which soared by 23.2 percentage points from 44.9% in 2001. Among them, 92.7% had desktop computers and 19.5% had laptop/notebooks.
Among the land-based resident population aged 3 and above residing in domestic living quarters, 54.1% (252,320) had used computers during the 3-month before the reference moment, representing a remarkable increase of 1.4 times over 2001. Besides, 85.2% used computers at home and 28.6% at work place.
h “Usage of computers” refers to using computers during the 3 months before By-census 2006; it is not applicable to maritime area and collective living quarters.
二零零六中期人口統計總體結果
Summary Findings!
25-34 years 20.5%
55-64 years 2.6%
65 years and above
0.5% 15-24 years
33.5%
3-14 years 17.8%
45-54 years 9.1%
35-44 years 16.0%
Census 2001 By-census 2006
Primary complete
17.5%
Tertiary 21.6%
Primary incomplete
9.5%
No schooling/
Pre-primary 1.0%
Senior secondary
26.7%
Junior secondary 23.7%
Most of the computer users (30.4%) aged 15-24, while 20.2% aged 14 and below.
Compared with 2001, the proportion of computer-users aged 3-24 fell by 9.7 percentage points whereas those aged 45 and above registered an increase of 6.5 percentage points, denoting that computer usage has been getting more popular across different age groups.
Graph 14˺Computer users by age group (2001-2006)
Among the computer users, 23.7% had junior secondary education, which fell by 1.7 percentage points over 2001; meanwhile, the proportion of those attaining senior secondary education and tertiary education went up by 5.5 and 2.3 percentage points to 25.6% and 19.3% respectively.
In terms of the usage of Internet services, 46.4% (216,555) of the resident population aged 3 and above had accessed to the Internet during the 3-month period before the reference moment, while 33.5% aged 15-24. Regarding the educational attainment of these users, 26.7% had senior secondary education and 23.7% had junior secondary education.
Graph 15˺Internet-users by educational attainment and age group (2006)
Age group Educational attainment
25-34 years 18.9%
55-64 years 1.4%
65 years and above
0.3%
15-24 years 34.0%
3-14 years 26.2%
45-54 years 5.4%
35-44 years 13.6%
25-34 years 19.2%
55-64 years 3.0%
65 years and above
0.6%
15-24 years 30.4%
3-14 years 20.2%
45-54 years 10.2%
35-44 years 16.6%
Analysed by age group, 92.9% of the resident population aged 10-14 were the more frequent computer-users, which was followed by those aged 15-19 and 20-24, accounting for 94.3% and 84.8% of the total of the respective age group. Graph 16 indicated that the rate of computer usage decreased while the users were getting older.
In terms of Internet usage, those aged 15-19 had the largest proportion among all age groups. Similar to that of computer usage, Internet usage decreased while the users were getting older.
Graph 16: Usage of computer/Internet by age group of users
(2006)
0 20 40 60 80 100
3-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 ≧65
%
Age group
Used computer Logged onto Internet
The majority (85.7%) of the Internet-users accessed the Internet at home, 25.9% at work place and 11.6% in schools. Regarding the purpose of using the Internet, 66.8% were searching for information, 51.6% were receiving/sending e-mail, 45.1% were reading newspaper and/or magazine and 40.4% were participating in the chat room/ICQ.
In addition, 41.0% of the Internet-users had browsed the website of the Government of Macao SAR during the 3 months before the reference moment.
二零零六中期人口統計總體結果
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5.4 Participation in leisure activities i
In order to evaluate the leisure time-use of the resident population after work, school or doing housework, for the first time in By-census 2006, information on participation of leisure activities and outbound travel was collected from non-institutionalized resident population aged 14 and above.
Among them, 98.0% had participated in recreational activities, using the Internet, etc.
during the reference week.
With respect to the type of leisure activities, 96.5% participated in recreational activities such as watching movies/television, playing mah-jong, reading newspaper and magazines, listening to music, etc. In addition, 40.9% accessed the Internet to search for information, to receive/send e-mail, etc. whereas 40.2% engaged in sport activities. Furthermore, 24.9%
enhanced one’s knowledge by attending self-learning courses and 3.6% contributed their leisure time to voluntary and charity activities.
Analyzed by gender, the participation rate of self-learning, recreational activities and voluntary/charity activities was higher for female, whereas the participation rate of male was higher in sport activities and using the Internet.
Table 14: Participation rate in leisure activities by gender (2006)
%
Type of leisure activities Total M F
Self-learning 24.9 23.9 25.8
Sport activities 40.2 44.2 36.7
Using the internet 40.9 45.2 37.1
Recreational activities 96.5 96.0 97.0
Voluntary/charity activities 3.6 3.2 4.0
Resident population aged 14-24 participated more actively in different kinds of leisure activities, with 80.9% in using the Internet, 45.1% in sport activities and 36.5% in self-learning activities. In addition, among those engaging in voluntary and charity activities, resident population in this age group accounted for 35.0% of the total participants in this activity.
Apart from recreational activities, 44.2% of those aged 55 and above participated more in sport activities.
i Not applicable to collective living quarters.
二零零六中期人口統計總體結果
Table 15: Participation of leisure activities by age group (2006)
%
Activities Age group
Self-
learning Sport
activities Using the
Internet Recreational
activities Voluntary/charity activities
Participation rate of age group 36.5 45.1 80.9 93.9 5.5
14-24
Ratio over total population 34.1 26.0 46.0 22.6 35.0
Participation rate of age group 33.0 38.9 57.2 94.0 3.6
25-34
Ratio over total population 22.5 16.4 23.8 16.6 17.1
Participation rate of age group 23.1 35.4 32.6 95.2 2.9
35-44
Ratio over total population 20.1 19.0 17.3 21.4 17.2
Participation rate of age group 16.6 33.8 18.1 95.3 2.7
45-54
Ratio over total population 14.5 18.2 9.6 21.4 16.4
Participation rate of age group 12.0 44.2 7.5 94.5 2.8
55 and
above Ratio over total population 8.9 20.2 3.4 18.0 14.4
The median time used in leisure activities was 22.7 hours per week. Resident population aged 14-24 had the highest median time of 32.2 hours per week. Analyzed by type of leisure activities, recreational activities registered the highest median of 15.6 hours per week and using the Internet shared 9.2 hours.
Table 16: Median time used in leisure activities (2006)
Hour
Overall 22.7
14-24 32.2
25-34 22.4
35-44 19.9
45-54 19.3
Age group
55 and above 21.7
Self-learning 6.9
Sport activities 6.1 Using the internet 9.2 Recreational activities 15.6 Type of leisure
activities
Voluntary/charity activities 6.0
In addition, 33.0% of those aged 14 and above had travelled outbound (excluding business trips) during the reference week, among them, 59.2% had day trips, 39.5% had trips lasting for 2 days or more, whilst 1.3% had both.
Summary Findings!
5.5 Possession of motor vehicles j
Results of the By-census 2006 indicated that 52.1% of the households had motorcycles and/or private automobiles, up by 7.7 percentage points over 2001. Among them, 73.5% had motorcycles and 57.0% had private automobiles, which rose by 4.3 and 0.6 percentage points compared with 2001. The highest ratio of households with motor vehicles marked in Taipa Island, accounting for 68.5% of the total, which was followed by Coloane Island (66.2%);
meanwhile, among the parishes in Macao Peninsula, this ratio was highest in São Lázaro parish (61.0%) and the lowest in Sé parish (46.4%).
Graph 17: Possession of motor vehicles by parish (2006)
51.9
61.0
50.5 46.4 47.2
68.5 66.2
48.1
39.0
49.5 53.6 52.8
31.5 33.8
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Santo António São Lázaro São Lourenço Sé N.S. de Fátima Taipa Coloane
%
Possessed vehicles No vehicle
In Nossa Senhora de Fátima parish, the proportion of households with motorcycles and those with private automobiles accounted for 41.6% and 26.2% respectively of the total households; in Taipa Island, the percentage of households with private automobiles took up 25.7% of the respective total in Macao.
j Not applicable to maritime area and collective living quarters.
Graph 18: Possession of motorcycles and cars by parish (2001-2006)
26.8 26.5
19.8 19.0
7.2 7.1
9.8 9.4
10.6 10.3
8.7 8.9
6.3 6.1
10.0 9.8
40.0 41.6
24.2 26.2
8.9 8.2
26.7 25.7
0.2 0.2 0.8 0.9
35 25 15 5 5 15 25 35 45
Santo António São Lázaro São Lourenço Sé N.S. de Fátima Taipa Coloane
%
Census 2001 By-census 2006
For those households with private automobiles, 66.4% used private car-parks at night, up by 13.0 percentage points over 2001; besides, 26.5% used street parking, which decreased from 39.8% in 2001 to 26.5% in 2006. An analysis by parish showed that the São Lourenço parish replaced the Nossa Senhora de Fátima parish in having the majority of households (42.1%) that used street parking, which was due to the absence of parking space in that parish.
In addition, 82.8% of the households in Taipa Island used private car-parks, up by 7.2 percentage points over 2001.
Graph 19: Night-time parking spots by parish (%) (2001-2006)
42.6 56.8
42.5 52.7
40.8 43.0
61.0 73.1
43.3
67.4 75.6 82.8
53.8 8.9
19.8 19.3
7.6 14.9
6.9 5.0
5.7
49.6
34.4 37.7
28.0
51.6 42.1
32.0 21.8
51.9
26.9 21.2 15.7
46.2 34.0
66.0 7.8
3.2
1.5
4.8
2001 2006
2001 2006
2001 2006
2001 2006
2001 2006
2001 2006
2001 2006 Santo António São Lázaro São Lourenço Sé N.S. de Fátima Taipa Coloane
Private car-park Public car-park Street parking
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