Paddy Farmers Survey 2022

Sri Lanka, 2022

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Reference ID

LKA_2022_SLPFS_v01_M_v01_A_ESS

Producer(s)

Agrifood Economics and Policy Division (ESA)

Collection(s)

FAO - Food and Agriculture Microdata Catalog

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Jul 02, 2025

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Reason for not purchasing synthetic fertilizer (d_9)

Data file: SL2022_clean_anon

Overview

Valid: 660

Invalid: 1540

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Width: 8

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	IT WAS TOO COSTLY	320	48.5%
2	NOT AVAILABLE IN THE STORES	214	32.4%
3	SOIL IS FERTILE (DO NOT NEED FERTILIZER)	6	0.9%
4	ORGANIC FERTILIZER IS SUFFICIENT ALREADY	10	1.5%
5	OTHER	110	16.7%
Sysmiss		1540

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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