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Crop Estimating Survey on Paddy (Yala) - 2008

Sri Lanka, 2008
Reference ID
LKA-DCS-CESP[Y]-2008-v1.0
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Department of Census and Statistics
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System of Tenure (ten)

Data file: 2008yala

Overview

Valid: 7967
Invalid: 4
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 27
End: 27
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 5
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1. System of Tenure
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 63
0.8%
1 Singly owned 5681
71.3%
2 Jointly owned 782
9.8%
3 Ande 1293
16.2%
4 Other 147
1.8%
5 1
0%
Sysmiss 4
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
System of Tenure could be (1) Singly owned (2)Jointly owned including Thattumaru and Kattimaru. (3) Ande
(4) Other
Thattumaru - An accepted cultivation system where a each person claiming ownership of a paddy field cultivates a predetermined area of the field in rotation.

Kattimaru - Cultivating different crops in different seasons.

Ande - Permitting a non-owner to cultivate the paddy field under the condition that the crop produced from that is shared between him and the owner.
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