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STATISTICAL NEWS LETTERSTATISTICAL NEWS LETTERSTATISTICAL NEWS LETTER

1ST ISSUE, 2015 ISSN 1800—3095

NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL ASSUMES DUTIES

All the divisions of

the Department of

Census and Statistics

shifted to a new

building at an auspi-

cious time of 11.16

on 08th December

2 0 1 4 . D r . P . B

Jayasundera Secretary

to the Treasury and

several other repre-

sentatives from Min-

istry of Finance and Planning and Department of Census

and Statistics attended this occasion. This building is

situated at No: 306/71, Polduwa Road, Battaramulla.

Name of the building is ”Sankyana Mandiraya”. This

Dr. A.J. Satharasinghe assumed duties in the post of Director General

of Census and Statistics on 2nd March 2015. He became the 17 th head

of the Department and fourth Director General of the Department.

He studied at Thurstan College, Colombo and Graduated from the

University of Colombo with a first class degree in Physical Science in

1983. He obtained Master of Science (Applied Statistics) degree from

the University of Colombo in 1989 and Master of Arts degree in 1998.

He has received a Scholarship to Univer-

sity of California of the United States on

Fulbright fellowship, during 1991-1992.

He obtained the doctorate in Applied

Statistics in 2002 by the University of

Peradeniya.

He Joined the Department in 1987 as a

Statistician. In 2013, he was appointed as

the Additional Director General. He has

worked in many divisions of the depart-

ment and possesses a vast knowledge and

experience in statistics.

He has held various positions in local and

International Organizations and he

worked as a Regional Consultant on Vul-

nerability Assessment and Mapping Pro-

gramme of the World Food Pro-

gramme.

DEPARTMENT OF CENSUS AND STATISTICS SHIFTED TO A NEW BUILDING

“ SANKYANA MANDIRAYA ”

building is situ-

ated at a beau-

tiful environ-

ment near Di-

yawanna oya

and Diyatha

Uyana.

With the shift-

ing of all divi-

sions to one

building the

efficiency of work of the department will be improved

and Department of Census and Statistics will further

improve it’s services to a greater extent.

PAGE 2 2ND ISSUE , 2014

“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before”

DCS INTRODUCES THE NATIONAL STATISTICAL INFORMATION SERVICE

In present information driven world, statistics disseminated on right for-mat at right time in a convenient manner for all is a fundamental req-uisite for a country to claim that it is in the true path of development as statistics is the base for any develop-ment project that completed with any amount of success.

Sri Lanka too lacked such a comprehensive statistical infor-mation service opened towards the world until the launching of LankaSIS, the web based national statistical information service by the DCS with tech-nical and financial assistance of Statistics Korea (KOSTAT), on 11th December, 2014. This nationally important event held at the Hotel Cinnamon Grands, Colombo was attend-ed by senior offices of the DCS and a team of experts from KOSTAT, and the chief guest, His excellency, the Republic of Korean Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Mr. Won-sam Chang ceremonially inaugurated the LankaSIS website.

The LankaSIS website which is backed by a modern commercial type database with over 3 TB of stor-age space can be located at the URL; www.sis.statistics.gov.lk, hosted within the DCS premises itself and the database system is updated and maintained round the clock by the DCS. The LankaSIS database stores data under 12 major subject catego-ries and a dynamically expandable tree view is displayed upon selection of a subject to ease public data min-ing. This integration of statistical data found and precented in different locations and different presentation layouts into a single database, to which users can send their data que-ries through a coherent system at one-stop was a major and long waiting development within the DCS as it significantly improves the efficiency

of both the processing and dissemina-tion of statistical data.

LankaSIS, as it pledges, fulfils almost all the expectations of the typical data users mainly looking for the macro level data listed in tabular forms and the most welcome exten-sion given in the system is interac-tively allowing the users to simplify

the table display and to pin-point the data search by filtering and selecting variables and/or table dimensions from the orig-inal pool of row, column, area and time period vari-ables of the selected ta-ble. This highly sophisti-cated feature of online table manipu-lation provides benefits to both the data users and publishers as it mini-mizes the search time, storage space and network traffic in both the ways, thus improving the efficiency of the whole process as some tables are as complexly dimensioned as 15 col-umn variables (statistical indicators or summarized data items) of 10 dif-ferent time bounded survey occur-rences cross tabulated with 3 row variables expanded over 3 geograph-ical hierarchy variables.

Online charting or precenting the tabled data in graphical views to bet-

ter understanding of data in trend analysis and for differences is another exiting functionality available in the new system and the Pivot table facili-ty allows both the table on display and graphs made on the table data to be differently arranged in to col-umns, rows and graphs simultane-ously. The data can be displayed on 16 types of line, column, bar and pie

charts and this dynamic display of data can be printed out, cop-ied into or down loaded in many popular formats facilitat-ing them to be used in user ex-tended analysis and publica-tions.

It is always cumbersome and error prone to calculate per-centage proportions, rates, rati-os, trends and other composi-tions from published data and this extra tediousness adversely effects the quality and clear un-derstanding of statistical tables as analytical writing require

those at fingertip to produce affec-tive narrations, which is essential in the process of high level policy deci-sion making. But this burden is no more for the users of the Analysis functionality within the LankaSIS as all this extended facilities are readily available with it.

In addition to the above, a lot many facilities are available in the system and this functionalities could be fur-ther improved by combined use of them along with the other advance features available with modern web browsers, which are continuously and competitively updated.

PAGE 3 STATISTICAL NEWSLETTER

ECONOMIC CENSUS 2013/14 -INDUSTRIES, TRADE AND SERVICES

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things”

The first economic census of the coun-try conducted during the last two years covered agriculture industry, trade and services activities in different stages. Economic activities of the agriculture sector were covered at the first and third stages in July 2013 and June-August 2014. Non- agricultural activi-ties were listed at the second stage during October -November 2013 and detailed data collection from the listed entities were done during November 2014 - January 2015. All the establish-ments engaged in economic activities of the sectors Industry, trade and ser-vices were listed except some small scale renting and transportation activi-ties and the public sector at the listing stage. A total of 1,017,346 establish-ments were listed in this exercise and 2058 are reported to be large establish-ments that is with employees more than 100. A report on the listing stage is to be published shortly and also an economic atlas is forthcoming to meet the data demand in the economic sec-tor.

As in the case of most of the developed countries the detailed data collection was done taking the large enterprises for full enumeration and choosing a

sample from the small and medium establishments. Informal sector was also covered by selecting a sample us-ing multistage stratified sampling tech-niques. Three different questionnaires were used to collect detailed data di-viding these establishments in to three groups such as formal industries, for-mal trade and services and the informal activities. Statistical officers/Statistical assistants attached to the divisional secretary island wide were used as

Ampara

Anuradhapura

Moneragala

Kurunegala

Badulla

Puttalam

Ratnapura

Galle

Matale

Kandy

Mullaitivu

Polonnaruwa

Mannar

Batticaloa

Kegalle

Trincomalee

Hambantota

Vavuniya

Kalutara

Matara

Gampaha

Jaffna

Nuwara Eliya

Kilinochchi

Colombo

Mannar

Kilinochchi

Jaffna

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Map ICTS 1: DENSITY OF ECONOMIC ESTABLISHMENTS - 2013 / '14

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Legend

District Boundaries

Number of Establishments

per Sq. KM

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11 - 12

13 - 25

26 - 250

251 - 4,000

0 20 40 60 8010Kilometers

Data Source: Provisional Data of Industries, Construction, Trade and Services Census - 2013 / '14

Ampara(30,556)

Anuradhapura(43,716)

Moneragala(18,847)

Badulla(30,457)

Mullaitivu(4,123)

Mannar(4,481)

Batticaloa(29,024)

Trincomalee(16,094)

Hambantota(31,638)

Vavuniya(7,351)

Kurunegala(86,149)

Puttalam(44,894)

Ratnapura(45,210)

Polonnaruwa(21,031)

Matale(25,784)

Kandy(62,030)

Kegalle(35,454)

Kalutara(60,720)

Galle(48,588)

Matara(43,424)

Gampaha(127,737)

Nuwara Eliya(24,780)

Kilinochchi(5,518)

Jaffna(33,858)

Colombo(136,016)

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Map ICTS 3: NUMBER OF ECONOMIC ESTABLISHMENTS BY MAJOR ECONOMIC SECTOR AND DISTRICT - 2013 / '14

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Legend

District Boundaries

Number of Establishments

13,000

Mining and Quarrying

Manufacturing

Services

Construction

Trade

Data Source: Provisional Data of Industries, Construction, Trade and Services Census - 2013 / '14

enumerators. As the districts of west-ern province have much more eco-nomic activities than the rest of the country statisticians/statistical offic-ers/statistical assistants from the head office were used to collect data in these districts. The field activities are com-plete now and further efforts/interventions are underway to get data from the establishments which were failed to provide data for the enumera-tors.

Colombo city is one of the most crowded cities in Sri Lanka. Main harbor, Fort railway station, main public and private bus stand, head offices of most of the premier banks, Customs, Central post office, Gen-eral Hospital, Supreme courts, Co-lombo Municipal Council and com-mercial hub including main markets, located in Colombo city area. This may be the main reason for moving thousands of people in Colombo city. Every corner of the city is crowded with usual residents as well as short term visitors who come for various purposes. According to the Census of Population and Housing conducted in year 2012, total popu-lation of Colombo city is estimated at 561,314. Land area of this city is approximately 37.3 km2 , which is nearly 5.4 percent of the Colombo District land area. As a result of high population in a limited land area, population density of Colombo city

is extremely high. The Population Census reported that density of Co-lombo city is 13,364 people per one square Kilometer.

At present Sri Lanka population den-sity is 325 persons per one square Kilometer, however Colombo city population density is more than 10 times of this number even in the first Census. Colombo city comprise two Divisional Secretaries (DS) Divisions namely Colombo DS Divi-sion and Thimbirigasyaya DS Division. Colombo DS division has 20 Grama Nila-dari Divisions and Thim-birigasyaya DS Division has 35 Grama Niladari Divi-sions. Population density of Colombo DS Division(17,959 per one square Kilometer) is higher than density of Thimbirigasyaya DS Division (9,919 per one

POPULATION DENSITY OF COLOMBO CITY square Kilometer). Further, popula-tion density is more than 30,000 per one square Kilometer in Grama Nila-dari Divisions such as Jinthupitiya, Masangaweediya, Kethtarama, Aluthkade east, Aluthkade west, Kochcikade south, Panchikawatta, Maligawathta, Maligakanda, Slave Island, Nawagampura, Madampitiya, Samanthranapura.

Figure 1 :Population density 1871- 2012

Cont.

POPULATION DENSITY OF COLOMBO CITY

Demographic information of usual

residents of Colombo City -2012

Population by sex Male Female

50.1 49.9

Population by Age groups

Less than 15 years 15-59 years 60 years and above

23.1 64.6 12.3

Population by Ethnicity

Sinhala Sri Lankan Tamil Indian Tamil Sri Lanka Moor Other

36.7 29.8 1.7 29.5 2.3

Population by level of Education

No schooling Studying in grade 1 Passed 1-5 Passed 6-10 G.C.E. (O/L) or equivalent G.C.E. (A/L) or equivalent Degree and above

3.9 1.7 18.8 38.3 18.3 14.1 4.9

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CENSUS AND STATISTICS AWARENESS WALK 2014

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Census

Year

City

popula-

tion

Land

Area

(Sq. km)

Population

Density

(persons per

Sq. km)

1871 95,843 24.5 3,917

1881 110,502 24.5 4,516

1891 126,825 24.5 5,183

1901 154,691 25.9 5,973

1911 211,274 30.9 6,833

1921 244,163 33.5 7,287

1931 284,155 33.7 8439

1946 362,074 34.4 10,529

1953 426,127 34.6 12,298

1963 511,644 34.7 14,745

1971 562,160 37.3 15,075

1981 587,647 37.3 15,759

2001 647,100 37.3 15,407

2012 561,314 37.3 13,364

Total population, land area and

population density 1871- 2012

The Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) together with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) organized the “Census and Statistics Aware-ness Walk 2014” on 4th December 2014. The main pur-pose of the walk was to create awareness about the ser-vices provided by the DCS to the country and to an-nounce that the DCS would be opening their new office building on 8th December, with a religious ceremony. The walk started at Campbell park, Borella at 10.00 a.m. and ended at the new DCS office building located at No. 306/71, Polduwa road, Battaramulla at 12.00 p.m. via Borella, Rajagiriya and Battharamulla. Over

1,500,people participated in the walk including the staff from the DCS Head office in Colombo, the branch offic-ers in District and Divisional Secretariats and statistical staff of other Ministries and Departments. Specially re-tired officers from this department also participated for this walk. The employees of DCS carried placard of the important statistical findings in the walk to create aware-ness among the public.

After the crowed reached the new building premises, Director General addressed the gathering and thanked all those who contributed for the construction of this building.

Above Figure 1 shows the in-creasing pattern of Colombo city population density in Census years. There is a slight decrease in population count in 2012 due to the change of enumeration method in 2012 census. In 2012 population was counted based on usual residents (de jure method) however all previous censuses population was counted on where people found at the cen-sus taking (de facto method).