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Census of Public and Semi-Government Sector Employment - 1994

Sri Lanka, 1994
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LKA-DCS- CPE-1994-v1.0
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Q6. ETHNICITY (ETHNICITY)

Data file: CPE1994

Overview

Valid: 739517
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 22
End: 22
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Sinhalese 645290
87.3%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 59287
8%
3 Indian Tamil 5298
0.7%
4 Sri Lanka Moor 24941
3.4%
5 Burgher 1303
0.2%
6 Malay 1853
0.3%
7 Other 578
0.1%
9 Unspecified 967
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.
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