Census of Population and Housing - 2001
Sri Lanka, 2001
Reference ID
LKA-DCS-CPH-2001-v1.0
Producer(s)
Department of Census and Statistics, ,
Metadata
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Last modified
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- Data files
- POPULATION
- HOUSING_UNIT
- HOUSEHOLD
Ethnic Group (P9_ETHNICITY)
Data file: POPULATION
Overview
Valid:
18600807
Invalid:
0
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
46
End:
46
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 6
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 36 |
0%
|
|
| 1 | Sinhalese | 15243193 |
81.9%
|
| 2 | Sri Lanka Tamil | 802521 |
4.3%
|
| 3 | Indian Tamil | 927105 |
5%
|
| 4 | Sri Lanka Moor | 1483564 |
8%
|
| 5 | Burgher | 39809 |
0.2%
|
| 6 | Malay | 62903 |
0.3%
|
| 7 | Sri Lanka Tamil | 11876 |
0.1%
|
| 8 | Bharatha | 2454 |
0%
|
| 9 | Other | 27346 |
0.1%
|
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.