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Vital Statistics - Births - 1972

Sri Lanka, 1972
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-1972-v1.0
Producer(s)
Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
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Created on
Jan 20, 2023
Last modified
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Race (COL8_RACE)

Data file: Births 1972

Overview

Valid: 385377
Invalid: 2
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 14
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 31
End: 32
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 14
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 48
0%
1 Sinhalese 272554
70.7%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 44702
11.6%
3 Sri lanka Moors 29850
7.7%
4 Burghers Eurasia 1006
0.3%
5 Malays 1079
0.3%
6 Veddah 54
0%
7 Indian Tamil 35140
9.1%
8 Indian Moors 518
0.1%
9 Pakistan Tamil 1
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 3
0%
11 Europeans 18
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 301
0.1%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 65
0%
14 Unknown Race 38
0%
Sysmiss 2
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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