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
Kind of Work Doing (Q716)
Data file: DHS93_Child
Overview
Valid:
882
Invalid:
3042
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
17
Mean:
7.09
Standard deviation:
4.968
Type:
Continuous
Decimal:
0
Start:
133
End:
134
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 17
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farming | 58 |
7%
|
| 2 | Fishing/hunting | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 3 | Estate worker | 298 |
35.8%
|
| 4 | Unskilled labourer (own Account) | 78 |
9.4%
|
| 5 | Unskilled Labourer (Pvt/Govt institute) | 63 |
7.6%
|
| 6 | Skilled labourer (own account) | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 7 | Skilled labourer (Pvt/Govt Institute) | 44 |
5.3%
|
| 8 | Petty Trader/Hawker | 17 |
2%
|
| 9 | Cottage Industry | 13 |
1.6%
|
| 10 | Domestic Worker | 7 |
0.8%
|
| 11 | Teacher - Primary/secondary | 113 |
13.6%
|
| 12 | Teacher University | 17 |
2%
|
| 13 | Nurse Health worker | 25 |
3%
|
| 14 | Tech/Mgrl/Professional | 33 |
4%
|
| 15 | Other | 63 |
7.6%
|
| 16 | Pensioneer | 0 |
0%
|
| 98 | Don't know | 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.