Samoa Bureau of Statistics

An agreement was signed by the two organisations to create potential user-friendly solutions for better national digital registration systems.

SBS Chief Executive Officer, Aliimuamua Malaefono Taua said, “The Division of Births Deaths and Marriages still faces delays of birth registrations despite continuous training with village representatives and media advocacy programmes to encourage birth registration within three months after the child’s birth, as mandated in the Registration for Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 2002,"

The decrease reflects the negative impact experienced by the nation due to COVID-19.

Negatively impacted industries include accommodation, construction, restaurants, transport, other services and business services.

Waitress and salaries increase by 0.4 percent on a year basis from $140.9 million tala in March last year, to $141.4 million in the year under review.

Employment index experience negative growth in the previous years has continued on in the next quarter under review.

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Ali’imuamua holds a Masters of Arts in Demography from the Australian National University and among the longest serving loyal SBS staff since 1987 after graduating from the University of the South Pacific in Suva Fiji with a BA in Economics & Administration.

She left the Bureau five years later to work as the Research Officer and Part-time Lecturer for Population Studies at the School of Social and Economic Developments at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji.