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Census of Population and Housing -1971

Sri Lanka, 1970 - 1971
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LKA-DCS-CPH-1971-v1.0
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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.
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