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Vital Statistics - Births - 2002

Sri Lanka, 2002
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-2002-v1.0
Producer(s)
Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
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Jan 20, 2023
Last modified
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Race (RACE)

Data file: Birth2002

Overview

Valid: 367709
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 13
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 35
End: 36
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 14
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Sinhalese 255599
69.5%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 47324
12.9%
3 Sri lanka Moors 19655
5.3%
4 Burghers Eurasia 43201
11.7%
5 Malays 595
0.2%
6 Veddah 923
0.3%
7 Indian Tamil 97
0%
8 Indian Moors 27
0%
9 Pakistan Tamil 52
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 24
0%
11 Europeans 98
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 93
0%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 21
0%
14 Unknown Race 0
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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