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Vital Statistics - Deaths - 1996

Sri Lanka, 1996
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGD-1996-v1.0
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Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
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8. Race (RACE)

Data file: Death_96

Overview

Valid: 122161
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 14
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 35
End: 36
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 14
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Sinhalese 94993
77.8%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 14386
11.8%
3 Sri lanka Moors 6610
5.4%
4 Burghers Eurasia 351
0.3%
5 Malays 184
0.2%
6 Veddah 0
0%
7 Indian Tamil 5409
4.4%
8 Indian Moors 5
0%
9 Pakistan Tamil 1
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 4
0%
11 Europeans 30
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 48
0%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 29
0%
14 Unknown Race 111
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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