Fifty-two percent of the household population 15 years old and over are engaged in a gainful activity
    
In 2020, the province of Marinduque had 164,487 household population 15 years and over. Of this total, around 86,078 persons or 52.3 percent were engaged in a gainful activity during 12 months preceding the census. This was 0.1 percentage points lower than the regional proportion of persons engaged in a gainful activity at 52.4 percent. (Figure 1 and Table A)
 

Among municipalities in the province, Mogpog had the highest proportion of gainful persons during 12 months preceding the census at 55.7 percent. This municipality surpassed the provincial proportion by 3.4 percentage points, and the regional proportion by 3.3 percentage points.  Moreover, Boac ranked second and Torrijos ranked third with corresponding proportion of gainful persons at 55.6 percent and 53.3 percent. Meanwhile, Buenavista had the lowest proportion at 48.4 percent. (Figure 1)

Nearly two in every three persons with gainful activity are males

Among 86,078 persons with gainful activity in Marinduque, males comprised 65.6 percent, while females accounted for the remaining 34.4 percent. Among municipalities, Buenavista showed the highest proportion of males with gainful activity at 73.4 percent and was followed by Santa Cruz at 67.6 percent. (Table 1 and Table A)
 

On the other hand, the municipality of Mogpog had the highest proportion of females with gainful activity at 38.8 percent. This was followed by Boac with females accounting to 37.3 percent of the municipality’s 22,238 persons who have been engaging in a gainful activity. (Table 1 and Table A)

 
Nearly five in every nine gainful workers are between 20 to 44 years old

The highest representation of gainful persons in terms of age group falls between 40 to 44 years with a total of 9,890 persons or 11.5 percent of the total number gainful workers in the Marinduque. Other age groups with more than 10.0 percent share to the provincial number of gainful workers include 25 to 29 years with 9,888 persons (11.5%), 35 to 39 years with 9,786 persons (11.4%), 30 to 34 years with 9,671 persons (11.2%), 45 to 49 years with 8,984 persons (10.4%), and 50 to 54 years with 8,968 persons (10.4%). In addition, senior citizen with gainful activities got 13.7 percent share (60 to 64 years: 6.3%, 65 years and over: 7.4%). Meanwhile, gainful persons whose age 15 to 19 years had the smallest representation with 2.1 percent of the provincial total gainful persons. (Table 2 and Table A)
 

In terms of sex, males had the greatest share among gainful persons 15 to 19 years at 72.4 percent. Other age groups with proportion of males exceeding 65 percent include 40 to 44 years (67.3%), 30 to 34 years (67.2%), 45 to 49 years (67.1%), 25 to 29 years (66.7%), and 35 to 39 years (66.5%). Meanwhile, males had the smallest share among persons with gainful activities whose age is at least 65 years at 61.6 percent. (Table 2 and Table A)

One in every four of gainful persons are skilled agricultural, forestry, and fishery workers

Among the major occupation groups, agricultural, forestry, and fishery workers was the largest. This comprises 21,231 persons or 24.7 percent share to the provincial total number of persons with gainful activity in 2020. This was followed by elementary occupation with 14,520 persons (16.9%), and service and sales workers with 12,613 persons (14.7%). (Table 3 and Table B)
 

Meanwhile, armed forces occupations had the smallest share to the provincial total number of gainful workers at 0.04 percent. Clerical support workers followed with a share of 3.4 percent. (Table 3 and Table B)

Males dominate females among the total gainful workers. The top three major occupation group where males dominated females include armed forces occupation (female: 0.0%, and male 100.0%), plant and machine operators, and assemblers (female: 2.1% and male: 97.9%), and crafts and related trades workers (female: 10.5%, and male: 89.5%). (Table 3 and Table C)

On the other hand, female-dominated occupation groups include the professional gainful workers (female: 70.6%, and male: 29.4%), service and sales workers (female: 65.6%, and male: 34.4%), clerical support workers (female: 61.0%, and male: 39.0%), and managerial gainful workers (female: 53.2%, and male: 46.8%). (Table 3 and Table C)

More than nine out of 20 gainful persons are in the services sector

By major sector of business / industry, the largest share of gainful workers was reported in the services sector, with 48.5 percent. The agriculture, forestry, and fishing sector accounted for 29.1 percent and 22.1 percent of the gainful persons were from the industry sectors. (Figure 2 and Table D)

Among municipalities, the services sector had the largest share in Boac (56.4%), Mogpog (51.3%), Gasan (48.8%), Santa Cruz (47.2%), and Torrijos (42.5%). Meanwhile, gainful persons from the municipality of Buenavista were predominantly from the agriculture, forestry, and fishing sector with corresponding share of 45.1 percent (Figure 2 and Table D)

More than one in every three gainful persons work for private businesses, enterprises, or farms

Among the seven classes of workers in the province, those who worked for private businesses, enterprises, farms topped with 29,809 gainful workers (34.6%). This was followed by 29,017 self-employed persons without any paid employee (33.7%), and 12,517 government corporation workers (14.5%). Meanwhile, working with pay in their own family-operated farm or business was recorded as the least common class of worker, with nearly 244 persons (0.3%). (Figure 3 and Table E)
 

Nearly four in every five gainful workers work in the same province and city/municipality of their residence

During the 12 months preceding the census, people with a gainful activity who worked in the same province and city/municipality of their residence accounted for 79.5 percent of the gainful workers 15 years old and over. Meanwhile, 5.3 percent worked within the same province of their residence but in a different city/municipality, 10.3 percent worked in a different province, and 2.7 percent worked in a foreign country. (Figure 4 and Table F)

Across municipalities, the highest proportion of gainful persons who worked in the same province and city of residence was at the municipality of Boac at 81.0 percent. Moreover, Mogpog had the highest proportion of gainful persons who worked within the province but different city or municipality of residence at 8.0 percent, and Buenavista had the highest incidence of gainful persons who worked in a different province at 14.1 percent. Furthermore, Santa Cruz had the highest proportion of gainful persons who worked in a foreign country at 3.3 percent. (Table F)

 
Seven out of ten persons who were engaged in non-gainful activities are female

In 2020, a total of 78,409 Marinduquenos were engaged in non-gainful activities or special occupation in the past 12 months. This translates to 47.7 percent of the province’s household population 15 years old and over. Reported non-gainful persons can be either housekeepers in own home, students, pensioners, retired, persons with disability, dependent, new workers seeking employment, or experienced workers seeking reemployment.   (Table G)

Of the total number of non-gainful persons in the province, 67.7 percent were females. In terms of age groups, almost three out of ten non-gainful persons or 29.6 percent falls between 15 to 19 years old. This was followed by 65 years old and over at 17.1 percent, and 20 to 24 years old at 13.7 percent. (Table G)

Among municipalities, Santa Cruz showed the highest number of non-gainful persons at 19.4 thousand or 24.7 percent share to the provincial total number of non-gainful persons. This was followed by Boac with a total of 17.8 thousand (22.7%).  Meanwhile, Buenavista had the lowest number of non-gainful persons at 8.9 thousand (11.3%). (Table G)

The statistics presented in this special release were based on the information provided by the respondent or any responsible member in the household who may provide accurate answers to the questions and give correct information about the household.

(SGD) LENI R. RIOFLORIDO
Regional Director

MLLM / RRL / EVC