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DEPARTMENT OF CENSUS & STATISTICSDEPARTMENT OF CENSUS & STATISTICSDEPARTMENT OF CENSUS & STATISTICS
Ministry of National Policies and Economic affairsMinistry of National Policies and Economic affairsMinistry of National Policies and Economic affairs
STATISTICAL NEWSLETTERSTATISTICAL NEWSLETTERSTATISTICAL NEWSLETTER
VOL. 1/9, JUNE 2016 ISSN 1800—3095
DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY 2016 - CAPI TECHNOLOGY IN
DATA COLLECTION
Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) embarked on a new
project to complete data entry of sample surveys during the inter-
view stage itself- using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing
(CAPI) System using tablet computers. CAPI enables interviewers
use portable computers to enter data directly via keyboard instead
of collecting data on paper questionnaires. The Department is cur-
rently using CAPI to collect data for the Demographic and Health
Survey, 2016.
The tablet PC’s were given to every field interviewers while the
supervisory officers coordinate the assigned work through tablet
PC’s. By using this technology, it can be able to reduce the errors oc-
curred at the stage of data collection. Furthermore no additional time is
required to computerize the data.
This new method was successfully used during the pre-testing stage of the
DHS which was completed in February 2016. The field work has been
commenced in mid-May 2016 after the training held in April 2016. Demo-
graphic and Health Survey covering the entire island using a sample of
25,000 housing units. The Department of Census and Statistics carried out
this survey on the technical support of Inner City Fund (ICF)
(International) Institute with the assistance of Ministry of Health, Nutrition
and Indigenous Medicine. Financial support for this survey is provided by
the World Bank.
ECONOMIC CENSUS 2013/14 – INDUSTRY, TRADE AND SERVICES
Economic Census 2013/14 carried out for the first time in Sri Lanka, conducted in two stages; Listing stage and the detailed data collection stage. Listing stage was conducted during October – December, 2013. A report based on the listing stage of the Economic Census was released in June 2015. The report is available on www.statistics.gov.lk (linked to the Economic Census logo.) A limited number of copies were also printed.
Distribution of establishments and persons engaged by Sector
Main Industry Establishments Persons Engaged
Number % Number %
Total 1,019,681 100.0 3,003,119 100.0
Industry & Construction 260,880 25.6 1,219,997 40.6
Trade 418,615 41.1 767,882 25.6
Services 340,186 33.4 1,015,240 33.8
The establishments engaged in trade and
services activities were listed and enu-
merated for the first time in Sri Lanka
and distribution of the economic activi-
ties according to major economic sec-
tors showed that the trade sector ac-
counted for 41.1% of the total econom-
ic activities followed by services
(33.4%) and industry & construction
sectors (25.6%), respectively. The composition of persons engaged by the main economic sector reveals that the
persons engaged in industry and construction activities (40.6%) is the highest among
the other sectors.
ICF Staff with D.G. and A.D.G. of DCS
CAPI Training for DCS Staff
Source: Economic Census 2013/14
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“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things”
DCS developed a definition for small and medium establish-ments based on the data collected at the listing stage of the economic census. The number of persons engaged, which proved to be the most reliable and consistent variable in defining small and medium enterprises, was used for defin-ing SMEs in the country. It was observed that the sector industry, trade and services need to be considered separately because the economic performance with respect to number of persons engaged varied vastly.
Small and Medium Enterprises
Major economic sector
SME Group Criteria (Number of persons engaged)
Industry and Construction
Micro 1 to 4
Small 5 to 24
Medium 25 to 199
Large 200 and above
Trade
Micro 1 to 3
Small 4 to 14
Medium 15 to 34
Large 35 and above
Services
Micro 1 to 4
Small 5 to 15
Medium 16 to 74
Large 75 and above
The enumeration of 937 large enterprises was conducted during the third quarter of 2015. These enterprises were engaged in 1349 diverse activities pertaining to industries, trade and services sectors.
As in the case of most developed countries, a sample was selected from small and medium establishments for detailed data collection and the large enterprises were totally enumerated. In order to avoid duplica-tion of data, the large enterprises were enumerated after the comple-tion of data collection from the sample of small and medium establish-ments.
Editing, coding (industry and product codes) and data entry of the cen-sus schedules is currently being carried out simultaneously. The final report and the economic atlas are to be published shortly.
The economic activities by province
Number of establishments and persons engaged in economic activities (excluding small scale renting, transportations and the
government and semi government sector) by district and percentages by size of establishments are shown in the table.
Enumeration of large enterprises
ECONOMIC CENSUS 2013/14 – INDUSTRY, TRADE AND SERVICES
District Total
Number of Establishments
Total
Number of Persons Engaged
Micro Small Medium Large Micro Small Medium Large
Row % Row % Row % Row % Row % Row % Row % Row %
Colombo 135,998 85.00% 11.70% 2.50% 0.80% 700,638 25.30% 16.90% 17.30% 40.60%
Gampaha 127,734 91.30% 7.10% 1.30% 0.30% 493,476 34.20% 13.80% 14.00% 38.00%
Kalutara 60,717 93.00% 5.90% 1.00% 0.20% 165,470 47.20% 16.30% 14.00% 22.50%
Kandy 62,062 90.60% 8.10% 1.10% 0.20% 168,057 49.30% 22.20% 14.00% 14.50%
Matale 25,784 92.10% 7.20% 0.60% 0.10% 61,192 54.70% 22.00% 8.70% 14.70%
NuwaraEliya 24,779 94.00% 4.90% 0.80% 0.20% 70,381 45.40% 12.50% 12.90% 29.30%
Galle 48,584 92.60% 6.20% 1.00% 0.20% 132,968 46.90% 17.20% 13.60% 22.30%
Matara 43,423 93.50% 5.60% 0.80% 0.10% 100,586 56.30% 18.00% 14.10% 11.60%
Hambantota 31,638 94.70% 4.70% 0.50% 0.10% 70,283 60.10% 16.40% 7.20% 16.40%
Jaffna 34,128 92.90% 6.40% 0.60% 0.10% 70,698 63.40% 23.00% 8.70% 4.80%
Mannar 4,481 95.20% 4.50% 0.30% 0.00% 8,277 73.80% 17.40% 4.00% 4.80%
Vavuniya 7,351 88.30% 10.40% 1.20% 0.10% 18,676 50.40% 29.70% 13.80% 6.10%
Mullaitivu 4,122 93.70% 5.50% 0.70% 0.00% 7,986 66.60% 21.20% 12.20% 0.00%
Kilinochchi 6,238 90.40% 9.10% 0.50% 0.00% 14,715 53.50% 32.30% 6.80% 7.40%
Batticaloa 29,135 94.90% 4.70% 0.40% 0.00% 53,732 68.50% 20.60% 5.90% 5.00%
Ampara 30,550 94.90% 4.70% 0.40% 0.00% 59,470 68.80% 17.10% 6.80% 7.30%
Trincomalee 16,565 94.60% 4.90% 0.30% 0.10% 31,726 67.40% 18.30% 4.20% 10.10%
Kurunegala 86,788 93.30% 6.00% 0.60% 0.10% 211,613 55.30% 18.00% 9.90% 16.80%
Puttalam 44,894 92.60% 6.70% 0.60% 0.10% 106,288 57.70% 20.90% 10.80% 10.60%
Anuradhapura 43,715 93.90% 5.50% 0.50% 0.10% 98,858 60.20% 17.30% 6.50% 15.90%
Polonnaruwa 21,030 93.90% 5.50% 0.50% 0.10% 47,820 58.60% 17.80% 7.60% 15.90%
Badulla 30,457 92.80% 6.30% 0.90% 0.10% 70,091 56.50% 19.80% 13.80% 9.90%
Moneragala 18,846 95.00% 4.60% 0.40% 0.10% 40,513 59.40% 15.10% 5.40% 20.00%
Ratnapura 45,210 91.20% 7.80% 0.80% 0.10% 120,250 47.20% 23.00% 12.80% 17.00%
Kegalle 35,452 93.80% 5.50% 0.60% 0.10% 79,355 58.10% 18.10% 11.10% 12.70%
Contd.
Source: Economic Census 2013/14
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“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before”
market. Potatoes and Big Onion have to
be imported about 111,569 MT and
123,348 MT respectively up to end of
2016. Further red Onion have to be
imported about 41,184 MTs for 2016 to
fulfil the balance of total market sup-
plies.
Data used
Monthly production forecast of essential
food items are estimated based on pre-
vious experience and production series
obtained from each Maha and Yala sea-
son using past ten years period. Annual
national consumption requirement of
such food items is estimated based on
HIES survey conducted by department
of Census and Statistics and annual food
availability in recent years. Monthly
FOOD SECURITY IN SRI LANKA 2016 - FORECASTING OF THE MONTHLY FOOD
PRODUCTION, STORAGE AND IMPORT NEEDS OF ESSENTIAL FOOD ITEMS
Introduction
Forecasting of the monthly production,
storage and total market supply of the
essential food items is very important to
planners, policy makers and government
to determine the monthly import needs,
taxes and their prices when making deci-
sion in the policy making. Four main
essential food items like rice, potatoes,
big onion and red onion are taken to
consider of which the part of total mar-
ket supply mainly depend on the local
production and balance fulfil with the
imports. The rice may not be imported
in future up to the end of 2016 because
of its self-sufficiency. The other three
items have to be imported since its
shortage up to production from local
Imports of such food items are obtained
from Sri Lanka customs. Sri Lanka got
self-sufficiency from rice production
since 2011 and other essential foods
Potatoes, Big onion and Red onion are
not sufficient with their national de-
mand. Annually, government expense
billions of rupees to cover this foods
requirement. It can be observed that
more than 50% of local consumption is
mainly depend on imports. Therefore
forecasting of the monthly import needs
of such consumer foods like Potatoes,
Big onion and Red onion by their
monthly production availability in the
market can help to plan control the
foods shortage, market prices and their
budget estimate.
Rice production, consumption and availability in Sri Lanka
Source: Dept. of Census & Statistics/Sri Lanka Customs
* Rice consumption with providing packets from outdoor catering
According to column 10 there are no rice shortage since 2012. Total rice production is sufficient for local requirement.
Net production forecast estimate except post harvesting wastage and seed requirement of the
year, 2016
Year Paddy
production (MT)
Post harvesting
wastage (MT)
Seed requirements
(MT)
Net Paddy production
(MT)
Net Rice Production
(MT)
Net Rice imports
(MT)
Rice Availability
(MT)
Annual Rice household
consumptions (MT) *
Balance stocks (MT)
(1) (2) (3) (4) 5=(2-(3+4)) 6=(5 x.68) 7 8=(6+7) 9 10
2011 3,894,233 233,654 127,596 3,532,983 2,402,428 21,833 2,424,261 2,426,647 -2,386
2012 3,845,945 230,757 111,268 3,503,920 2,382,666 6,993 2,389,659 2,363,740 25,919
2013 4,620,728 277,244 128,025 4,215,459 2,866,512 12,623 2,879,135 2,381,763 497,372
2014 3,380,780 202,847 100,591 3,077,342 2,092,593 594,963 2,687,556 2,404,089 283,467
2015 4,765,924 285,955 130,741 4,349,228 2,957,475 276,171 3,233,646 2,437,926 795,719
TRAINING ON INTRODUCTION TO SATELLITE DATA
WE’RE ON THE WEB
www.statistics.gov.lk
Sri Lanka has been selected for a pilot
programme to test whether poverty can
be measured through variables derived
using satellite images. Under this pilot
study, initiated by the World Bank,
findings from Orbital Insight with cen-
sus data and on‐the‐ground surveys will
be used to develop poverty proxies. In
connection with this programme, train-
ing on Introduction to Satellite Data was
conducted at the Department of Census
and Statistics (DCS) from 11th to 14th
January 2016. It also provided an oppor-
tunity to discuss how the skills of local
and international remote sensing experts
can be used to improve and facilitate
this work. DCS to improve official sta-
tistics in Sri Lanka by exposing its staff
to new aspects of data science, new data
tools and technologies in future.
Key components of this Training includ-
ed use of ‘R’ (open source software en-
vironment for statistical computing and
graphics), ‘QGIS’ (software which is a
cross‐platform and open source desktop
geographic information system), and
‘GIS’ (Geographic Information System)
as data capturing, analysis and dissemi-
nation of tools.
Month
Rice Potatoes Big onion Red onion
Production forecast
(MT)
Import needs (MT)
Production forecast
(MT)
Import needs (MT)
Production forecast
(MT)
Import needs (MT)
Production forecast
(MT)
Import needs (MT)
January 124,257 0 2,641 6,532 * 312 0 * 5,166 1,315
February 459,929 0 2,378 13,541 1,909 0 * 6,380 101
March 780,893 0 17,008 0 1,052 10,219 9,168 0
April 332,540 0 5,329 9,501 79 18,855 3,157 637
May 86,951 0 4,921 10,998 12 18,922 6,715 0
June 8,154 0 2,870 13,049 0 18,934 115 6,132
July 220,950 0 243 15,677 338 18,596 2,314 4,167
August 472,696 0 0 15,919 17,811 1,123 2,861 3,620
September 342,068 0 0 15,919 27,740 0 249 6,232
October 108,124 0 6,631 9,288 10,791 0 208 6,273
November 9,939 0 9,849 6,070 506 17,765 0 6,481
December 3,781 0 14,312 1,607 0 18,934 255 6,226
Total 2,950,283 0 66,182 111,569 60,550 123,348 36,588 41,184
Note: * Import needs estimated with previous year stocks (2015).
FOOD SECURITY IN SRI LANKA 2016
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Contd..
Source: Dept. of Census & Statistics/Sri Lanka Customs
ParticipantsParticipants of the Training with Resource Persons and Senior Officers of the DCS