Demographic and Health Survey 1987

Sri Lanka, 1987

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Reference ID

LKA_1987_DHS_v01_M

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Department of Census and Statistics (DCS)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Ethnicity (v131)

Data file: REC11

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 46

End: 47

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	Low sinhalese
2	Up sinhalese
3	Sri lankan tamil
4	Indian tamil
5	Sri lankan moor
6	Burgher
7	Malay
8	Other

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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Notes

Ethnicity. Both the question and the codes are country specific.

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