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Vital Statistics - Births - 1980

Sri Lanka, 1980
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-1980-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 1980

Overview

Valid: 418373
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 295198
70.6%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 54396
13%
3 Sri lanka Moors 34275
8.2%
4 Burghers Eurasia 717
0.2%
5 Malays 998
0.2%
6 Veddah 67
0%
7 Indian Tamil 32185
7.7%
8 Indian Moors 206
0%
9 Pakistan Tamil 4
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 8
0%
11 Europeans 19
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 195
0%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 79
0%
14 Unknown Race 26
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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