Census of Population and Housing -1971
Sri Lanka, 1970 - 1971
Reference ID
LKA-DCS-CPH-1971-v1.0
Producer(s)
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9.Ethnic Group (ETHNICGROUPQ_14)
Data file: POP71
Overview
Valid:
12567722
Invalid:
50821
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
28
End:
28
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 8
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 14 |
0%
|
| 1 | Low Country Sinhala | 5395681 |
42.9%
|
| 2 | Kandyan Sinhala | 3666449 |
29.2%
|
| 3 | Ceylon Tamil | 1413319 |
11.2%
|
| 4 | Indian Tamil | 1138421 |
9.1%
|
| 5 | Ceylon Moor | 822841 |
6.5%
|
| 6 | Indian Moor | 26841 |
0.2%
|
| 7 | Bugher/Eurasian | 45298 |
0.4%
|
| 8 | Malay | 43369 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | Other | 15489 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 50821 |
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.