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Vital Statistics - Births - 1983

Sri Lanka, 1983
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-1983-v1.0
Producer(s)
Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
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Race (COL8_RACE)

Data file: Births 1983

Overview

Valid: 405121
Invalid: 1
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 14
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 31
End: 32
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 14
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Sinhalese 294046
72.6%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 49145
12.1%
3 Sri lanka Moors 32691
8.1%
4 Burghers Eurasia 710
0.2%
5 Malays 849
0.2%
6 Veddah 45
0%
7 Indian Tamil 27325
6.7%
8 Indian Moors 104
0%
9 Pakistan Tamil 5
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 3
0%
11 Europeans 22
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 10
0%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 16
0%
14 Unknown Race 150
0%
Sysmiss 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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