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Vital Statistics - Births - 1990

Sri Lanka, 1990
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-1990-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 1990

Overview

Valid: 333547
Invalid: 8
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 250073
75%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 33039
9.9%
3 Sri lanka Moors 30020
9%
4 Burghers Eurasia 707
0.2%
5 Malays 1077
0.3%
6 Veddah 43
0%
7 Indian Tamil 18086
5.4%
8 Indian Moors 115
0%
9 Pakistan Tamil 6
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 39
0%
11 Europeans 33
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 191
0.1%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 75
0%
14 Unknown Race 43
0%
Sysmiss 8
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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