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_Women
Overview
Valid:
1889
Invalid:
5189
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
98
Mean:
7.246
Standard deviation:
5.672
Type:
Continuous
Decimal:
0
Start:
1289
End:
1290
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farming | 110 |
6.1%
|
| 2 | Fishing/hunting | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 3 | Estate worker | 543 |
30.4%
|
| 4 | Unskilled labourer (own Account) | 212 |
11.9%
|
| 5 | Unskilled Labourer (Pvt/Govt institute) | 162 |
9.1%
|
| 6 | Skilled labourer (own account) | 21 |
1.2%
|
| 7 | Skilled labourer (Pvt/Govt Institute) | 125 |
7%
|
| 8 | Petty Trader/Hawker | 41 |
2.3%
|
| 9 | Cottage Industry | 64 |
3.6%
|
| 10 | Domestic Worker | 23 |
1.3%
|
| 11 | Teacher - Primary/secondary | 196 |
11%
|
| 12 | Teacher University | 28 |
1.6%
|
| 13 | Nurse Health worker | 40 |
2.2%
|
| 14 | Tech/Mgrl/Professional | 58 |
3.2%
|
| 15 | Other | 161 |
9%
|
| 16 | Pensioneer | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 98 | Don't know | 2 |
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.