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Vital Statistics - Births - 1976

Sri Lanka, 1976
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-1976-v1.0
Producer(s)
Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
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Race (COL8_RACE)

Data file: Births 1976

Overview

Valid: 380702
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 266927
70.1%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 46901
12.3%
3 Sri lanka Moors 30611
8%
4 Burghers Eurasia 829
0.2%
5 Malays 1050
0.3%
6 Veddah 49
0%
7 Indian Tamil 33609
8.8%
8 Indian Moors 413
0.1%
9 Pakistan Tamil 4
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 6
0%
11 Europeans 16
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 207
0.1%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 43
0%
14 Unknown Race 37
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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