[Mihalic] distribution of Tok Pisin by Province

cjhandma at uchicago.edu cjhandma at uchicago.edu
Thu Oct 26 11:14:59 EST 2006


Dear Stuart,

I took down some provincial data from Morobe from the 2000 
census.  I have the following:  
Literate in:
English    41.1%
Tok Pisin  58.2
Motu       1.6
Tok Ples   44.5

These are then broken down by gender.  Then another table 
breaks it down by urban (w/gender distinctions) and Rural 
(w/gender distinctions).  

I assume each province has something similar.  

Best wishes,
Courtney Handman

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>   1. distribution of Tok Pisin across provinces (Stuart 
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>   2. Re: distribution of Tok Pisin across provinces (Robin 
Hide)
>   3. RE: distribution of Tok Pisin across provinces
>      (Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies)
>   4. Fwd: [Mihalic] distribution of Tok Pisin across 
provinces
>      (Lise M. Dobrin)
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>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:27:13 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: Stuart Robinson <Stuart.Robinson at mpi.nl>
>Subject: [Mihalic] distribution of Tok Pisin across 
provinces
>To: mihalic at anu.edu.au
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>I was wondering whether anyone had any stats concerning the 
distribution
>of Tok Pisin across the provinces of PNG. More 
specifically, I'd like to
>find some data that gives the percentage of the population 
of each
>province that speaks Tok Pisin. Any suggestions? The only 
reference that
>I know of is the following:
>
>@INCOLLECTION{dutton:1985,
>  author = {Dutton, T. E.},
>  year = {1985},
>  title = {Languages of wider communication (or lingua 
francas)},
>  booktitle = {Papua New Guinea Atlas},
>  editor = {D. King and S. Ranck},
>  pages = {36-37},
>  address = {Port Moresby},
>  publisher = {University of Papua New Guinea},
>}
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:03:12 +1000
>From: Robin Hide <rhide at coombs.anu.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: [Mihalic] distribution of Tok Pisin across 
provinces
>To: mihalic at anu.edu.au
>Message-ID: 
<6.1.0.6.1.20061026064358.02d0c120 at mail.coombs.anu.edu.au>
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>The 1990 National Population Census asked a question on 
literacy: can 
>you/he/she read and write with understanding in English, 
Pidgin, Motu or 
>any other language?  (see: National Statistical Office 
1994. Report on the 
>1990 National Population and Housing Census in Papua New 
Guinea. Port 
>Moresby, National Statistics Office.)
>
>That publication doesnt give (I think) a provincial 
breakdown of the data.
>
>So I think you have to look at the individual Provincial 
Reports (Each a 
>substantial book size): e.g.  for Simbu:
>National Statistical Office 1994. Report on the 1990 
National Population 
>and Housing Census in Chimbu Province, Port Moresby, 
National Statistical 
>Office.
>and the relevant tables are on p. 121-122 (tabulated as 
Persons 10 years 
>and over by literacy in major languages and sex).
>
>Some other publication must have produced a single National 
Table with 
>provincial breakdowns of these figures...? (tho The 1998 
Papua New Guinea 
>Human Development Report (1999) only uses a composite 
Literacy figure)
>
>I havent seen any comparable tables for the 2000 Census- 
but there may well 
>be.
>
>Robin Hide
>
>
>  At 05:27 AM 26/10/2006, you wrote:
>>I was wondering whether anyone had any stats concerning 
the distribution
>>of Tok Pisin across the provinces of PNG. More 
specifically, I'd like to
>>find some data that gives the percentage of the population 
of each
>>province that speaks Tok Pisin. Any suggestions? The only 
reference that
>>I know of is the following:
>>
>>@INCOLLECTION{dutton:1985,
>>   author = {Dutton, T. E.},
>>   year = {1985},
>>   title = {Languages of wider communication (or lingua 
francas)},
>>   booktitle = {Papua New Guinea Atlas},
>>   editor = {D. King and S. Ranck},
>>   pages = {36-37},
>>   address = {Port Moresby},
>>   publisher = {University of Papua New Guinea},
>>}
>>
>>+ -----------------------------------------------------+
>>| Stuart Robinson <stuart dot robinson at mpi dot nl>  |
>>| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics           |
>>| Postbus 310                                          |
>>| 6500 AH Nijmegen                                     |
>>| The Netherlands                                      |
>>| http://www.mpi.nl/Members/StuartRobinson             |
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>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:35:07 +1000
>From: "Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies" 
<ipngs at global.net.pg>
>Subject: RE: [Mihalic] distribution of Tok Pisin across 
provinces
>To: "'Robin Hide'" <rhide at coombs.anu.edu.au>, 
<mihalic at anu.edu.au>
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>Yes, there was a similar question in the 2000 Census. 
Question 14 on the
>form is "What languages can the person read and write with 
understanding?"
>and the choices are "English, Pidgin, Motu, Tokples". Table 
C4 of the 2000
>Census Basic Tables: National Level (Port Moresby: National 
Statistical
>Office, 2002) concerns "Citizen Population aged 10 years 
and over in Private
>Dwellings by Literacy, Age and Sex, 2000", but this 
provides information for
>the country as a whole, not broken down by individual 
provinces.
> 
>However, as Robin pointed out for the 1990 Census, there 
are also individual
>Provincial Reports prepared for each province. I don't have 
a complete set,
>but I assume all would contain a section on literacy, as 
does (at least) the
>one for Western Highlands. There, summary information is 
given on literacy
>in the province for each of the four "languages" identified 
above, and there
>is a table with percentages.
> 
>So some information on literacy seems to be there, but not, 
apparently, in
>one table. And, of course, these figures say nothing about 
those who are not
>literate in those languages, but can understand them.
> 
>Regards,
>Don
> 
>Don Niles
>Acting Director & Senior Ethnomusicologist
>Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies
>Box 1432
>Boroko 111
>PAPUA NEW GUINEA
> 
>tel.: +675 325-4644
>fax: +675 325-0531
>email: ipngs at global.net.pg
>
>  _____  
>
>From: mihalic-bounces at anu.edu.au [mailto:mihalic-
bounces at anu.edu.au] On
>Behalf Of Robin Hide
>Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2006 7:03
>To: mihalic at anu.edu.au
>Subject: Re: [Mihalic] distribution of Tok Pisin across 
provinces
>
>
>The 1990 National Population Census asked a question on 
literacy: can
>you/he/she read and write with understanding in English, 
Pidgin, Motu or any
>other language?  (see: National Statistical Office 1994. 
Report on the 1990
>National Population and Housing Census in Papua New Guinea. 
Port Moresby,
>National Statistics Office.)
>
>That publication doesnt give (I think) a provincial 
breakdown of the data.
>
>So I think you have to look at the individual Provincial 
Reports (Each a
>substantial book size): e.g.  for Simbu:
>National Statistical Office 1994. Report on the 1990 
National Population and
>Housing Census in Chimbu Province, Port Moresby, National 
Statistical
>Office.
>and the relevant tables are on p. 121-122 (tabulated as 
Persons 10 years and
>over by literacy in major languages and sex).
>
>Some other publication must have produced a single National 
Table with
>provincial breakdowns of these figures...? (tho The 1998 
Papua New Guinea
>Human Development Report (1999) only uses a composite 
Literacy figure) 
>
>I havent seen any comparable tables for the 2000 Census- 
but there may well
>be. 
>
>Robin Hide
>
>
> At 05:27 AM 26/10/2006, you wrote:
>
>
>I was wondering whether anyone had any stats concerning the 
distribution
>of Tok Pisin across the provinces of PNG. More 
specifically, I'd like to
>find some data that gives the percentage of the population 
of each
>province that speaks Tok Pisin. Any suggestions? The only 
reference that
>I know of is the following:
>
>@INCOLLECTION{dutton:1985,
>  author = {Dutton, T. E.},
>  year = {1985},
>  title = {Languages of wider communication (or lingua 
francas)},
>  booktitle = {Papua New Guinea Atlas},
>  editor = {D. King and S. Ranck},
>  pages = {36-37},
>  address = {Port Moresby},
>  publisher = {University of Papua New Guinea},
>}
>
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>| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics           |
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>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:50:17 -0400
>From: "Lise M. Dobrin" <ld4n at virginia.edu>
>Subject: Fwd: [Mihalic] distribution of Tok Pisin across 
provinces
>To: mihalic at anu.edu.au
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>Dear Stuart and others,
>
>Take a look at the Atlas of Languages of Intercultural 
Communication. 
>I believe there is some information along the lines of what 
you're 
>looking for there.
>
>Take care,
>Lise
>
>Title:
>Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the 
Pacific, 
>Asia, and the Americas
>ISBN:
>3110134179
>Publisher:
>Walter de Gruyter
>Author(s):
>Peter (EDT) Muhlhausler, D. T. (EDT) Tryon, Stephen Wurm
>Format:
>Hardcover
>Publication Date:
>Dec 1, 1996
>Subject:
>Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
>Dimensions:
>9.50 x 12.50 x 6.25 in
>
>>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006
>>From: Stuart Robinson <Stuart.Robinson at mpi.nl>
>>To: mihalic at anu.edu.au
>>Subject: [Mihalic] distribution of Tok Pisin across 
provinces
>>
>>
>>I was wondering whether anyone had any stats concerning 
the distribution
>>of Tok Pisin across the provinces of PNG. More 
specifically, I'd like to
>>find some data that gives the percentage of the population 
of each
>>province that speaks Tok Pisin. Any suggestions? The only 
reference that
>>I know of is the following:
>>
>>@INCOLLECTION{dutton:1985,
>>   author = {Dutton, T. E.},
>>   year = {1985},
>>   title = {Languages of wider communication (or lingua 
francas)},
>>   booktitle = {Papua New Guinea Atlas},
>>   editor = {D. King and S. Ranck},
>>   pages = {36-37},
>>   address = {Port Moresby},
>>   publisher = {University of Papua New Guinea},
>>}
>>
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