Open market retail prices of food and miscellaneous items with respect to all district towns are collected on weekly,monthly and quarterly basis…

Official Poverty line at national level for March  2012 is Rs. 3401

The economic output of Sri Lanka as measured by GDP for 2011 recorded an 8.3 percent the highest growth ever achieved since independence.

The economic output of Sri Lanka as measured by GDP for the 4th quarter 2011 recorded an 8.3 percent growth.

Final stage of the census will commence on 27th February 2012. 20th day of March has been declared as “Census date” and 12.00 mid night of 19th March is called “Census moment”.

The Enumeration of Vital Events - 2011 concludes the total population of the Northern province to be 997,754, a figure on the lower side 1 million.

The total number of employees in semi government sector has shown a decrease during the period, 2003 to 2009 mainly due to the closing down of some of the institutions.

The male participation rate for the 2nd quarter 2011 was about 66.4 percent and it was 33.1 percent for females.

12.9% of the children in Child labour who are in the compulsory schooling age of 5 to 14 years were found to be not attending school.

The survey reveals that an average household received Rs. 36,451 per month at national level in 2009/10.

This survey is the 24th of the ASI series, conducted in 2009 and the reference period is 2008. The report contains important industrial indicators.