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Vital Statistics - Births - 1999

Sri Lanka, 1999
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-1999-v1.0
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Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
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Race (race)

Data file: Birth 1999

Overview

Valid: 328725
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 226206
68.8%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 45746
13.9%
3 Sri lanka Moors 39884
12.1%
4 Burghers Eurasia 633
0.2%
5 Malays 1035
0.3%
6 Veddah 6
0%
7 Indian Tamil 14720
4.5%
8 Indian Moors 43
0%
9 Pakistan Tamil 10
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 18
0%
11 Europeans 27
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 75
0%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 156
0%
14 Unknown Race 166
0.1%
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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