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Vital Statistics - Births - 1998

Sri Lanka, 1998
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-1998-v1.0
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Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
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Race (race)

Data file: Birth 1998

Overview

Valid: 322672
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 40
End: 41
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 14
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Sinhalese 225280
69.8%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 42471
13.2%
3 Sri lanka Moors 38874
12%
4 Burghers Eurasia 693
0.2%
5 Malays 978
0.3%
6 Veddah 6
0%
7 Indian Tamil 13910
4.3%
8 Indian Moors 50
0%
9 Pakistan Tamil 5
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 19
0%
11 Europeans 38
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 128
0%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 185
0.1%
14 Unknown Race 35
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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