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Demographic Survey - 1994

Sri Lanka, 1994
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LKA-DCS-DS-1994-v1.0
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Department of Census and Statistics
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Ethnicity (P07_ETHNICITY)

Data file: person

Overview

Valid: 423578
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 47
End: 47
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 SINHALESE 352160
83.1%
2 SL_TAMIL 24511
5.8%
3 IND_TAMIL 10740
2.5%
4 SL_MOOR 32927
7.8%
5 BURGHER 1207
0.3%
6 MALAY 1362
0.3%
7 SL_HETTI 239
0.1%
8 INDIAN 32
0%
9 OTHER 400
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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