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Vital Statistics - Births - 1984

Sri Lanka, 1984
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-1984-v1.0
Producer(s)
Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
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Race (COL8_RACE)

Data file: Births 1984

Overview

Valid: 391062
Invalid: 2
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 281518
72%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 48044
12.3%
3 Sri lanka Moors 31395
8%
4 Burghers Eurasia 780
0.2%
5 Malays 773
0.2%
6 Veddah 59
0%
7 Indian Tamil 28041
7.2%
8 Indian Moors 125
0%
9 Pakistan Tamil 14
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 22
0%
11 Europeans 25
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 36
0%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 13
0%
14 Unknown Race 217
0.1%
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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