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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A much lower fertility rate (number of children born per woman of childbearing age) and continued out-migration has been attributed to the slight decreased in American Samoa’s mid-year 2022 population count, which is estimated at 51,269 — a drop of 292 persons from the...
Apia, SAMOA — Officers conducting Samoa's national census will be dishing out cash while on the job.
Newsline Samoa reports that every citizen whose personal details are collected by the Samoa Bureau of Statistics officers will receive $50 tala (US$18)
It is part of the government's second stimulus...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s 2019 mid-year populations stands at over 58,000 — a loss of 1,000 residents — and the female population is higher than the male population, according to the latest data released by the Statistics Division of the Commerce Department.
Samoa News reported...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan of CNMI introduced a bill that requires a census every five years in the U.S. insular areas.
Currently, the American Community Survey collects data on population, income, and other information important for policy making in the 50...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s mid-year 2018 population, is estimated at 59,600 — a loss of 700 persons compared to July 1, 2017, according to data release yesterday by the Commerce Department’s Statistical Division.
Based on DOC data, Samoa News reported last year that the 2017 mid-...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s population did not increase in the last five years and is less than 200,000.
This was revealed in the final phase of the census 2016 brief reports released recently by the Samoa Bureau of Statistics, which had statistics on the country’s education and economic characteristics...
![This screen shot of the Census 2010 American Samoa form shows Question 7, which has to do with a person's citizenship status: US Citizen or National. The same question will be on the 2020 questionnaire for American Samoa. According to ASG Commerce Department director Keniseli Lafaele, American Samoa’s census questionnaire has always asked the question — apparently the US census form does not — but will be reinstated for the 2020 Census — a move that is raising concerns in many US cities. [photo: FS]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/census%20question%200925.jpg?itok=u-7eYybM "This screen shot of the Census 2010 American Samoa form shows Question 7, which has to do with a person's citizenship status: US Citizen or National. The same question will be on the 2020 questionnaire for American Samoa. According to ASG Commerce Department director Keniseli Lafaele, American Samoa’s census questionnaire has always asked the question — apparently the US census form does not — but will be reinstated for the 2020 Census — a move that is raising concerns in many US cities. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa has its own long-form census questionnaire, which questions a person's citizenship status, says ASG Commerce Department director Keniseli Lafaele, who noted that this will be the same for the 2020 Census.
The citizenship status question became a local...