The latest Household survey for 2011 has been released by the National Statistics Office (ONE), which surveyed 18,000 homes throughout the country with a variety of questions on the three key issues which people consider to be affecting the country; poverty (73.2%), unemployment (61.3%) and crime (61.1%).
The results shows that 42.6% of Dominicans think that their neighborhood is safe compared with 26.9% who think the opposite and 56.3% said that they felt safe in their home as opposed to 13.6% who felt unsafe.
6.5% of the homes surveyed had at last one foreigner, 61.6% male and 38.4% female, living permanently in the home, mostly in rural areas. Of these foreigners 81.1% were Haitian, 5.4% from the US, 5.1% from other Latin American countries and 1.5% from Spain.
Looking at higher education, interestingly there were 163 women studying for every 100 men.
Of the 63% who were employed, 26.8% were in service industries, 20.4% as unskilled workers, 21.8% operatives, artisans and transport workers, 12.3% professional and technical workers, 7.3% office workers and 20.2% managers and administrators.
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