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Vital Statistics - Births - 1974

Sri Lanka, 1974
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-1974-v1.0
Producer(s)
Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
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Jan 20, 2023
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Race (COL8_RACE)

Data file: Births 1974

Overview

Valid: 365789
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 14
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 31
End: 32
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 14
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Sinhalese 258384
70.6%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 43398
11.9%
3 Sri lanka Moors 28536
7.8%
4 Burghers Eurasia 835
0.2%
5 Malays 1116
0.3%
6 Veddah 27
0%
7 Indian Tamil 32782
9%
8 Indian Moors 381
0.1%
9 Pakistan Tamil 4
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 1
0%
11 Europeans 24
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 237
0.1%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 37
0%
14 Unknown Race 27
0%
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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