Demographic and Health Survey - 1993
Sri Lanka, 1993
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Reference ID
LKA-DCS-DHS-1993-v1.0
Producer(s)
Department of Census and Statistics (DCS)
Metadata
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Jan 05, 2023
Last modified
Jul 28, 2023
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- DHS93_HH
- DHS93_Person
- DHS93_Women
- DHS93_Child
Husband's work (Q707)
Data file: DHS93_Child
Overview
Valid:
3924
Invalid:
0
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
98
Mean:
6.729
Standard deviation:
6.608
Type:
Continuous
Decimal:
0
Start:
122
End:
123
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farming | 1008 |
25.7%
|
| 2 | Fishing/hunting | 93 |
2.4%
|
| 3 | Estate worker | 265 |
6.8%
|
| 4 | Unskilled labourer (own Account) | 443 |
11.3%
|
| 5 | Unskilled Labourer (Pvt/Govt institute) | 238 |
6.1%
|
| 6 | Skilled labourer (own account) | 271 |
6.9%
|
| 7 | Skilled labourer (Pvt/Govt Institute) | 314 |
8%
|
| 8 | Petty Trader/Hawker | 322 |
8.2%
|
| 9 | Cottage Industry | 26 |
0.7%
|
| 10 | Domestic Worker | 10 |
0.3%
|
| 11 | Teacher - Primary/secondary | 47 |
1.2%
|
| 12 | Teacher University | 11 |
0.3%
|
| 13 | Nurse Health worker | 9 |
0.2%
|
| 14 | Tech/Mgrl/Professional | 205 |
5.2%
|
| 15 | Other | 436 |
11.1%
|
| 16 | Pensioneer | 11 |
0.3%
|
| 17 | 17 | 190 |
4.8%
|
| 25 | 25 | 18 |
0.5%
|
| 98 | Don't know | 7 |
0.2%
|
| 99 | 99 | 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.