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 June 2014 is Rs. 3886

The economic output of Sri Lanka as measured by GDP for the 1st quarter 2014 recorded as 7.6 percent growth.

Youth unemployment rate 15 – 24 years reported for Fourth Quarter 2013 was 19.0 percent and that reported the highest unemployment rate among age groups.

National poverty headcount ratio has declined from 8.9 percent in 2009/10 to 6.7 percent in 2012/13.

This survey is the 27th of the ASI series, conducted in 2012 and the reference period is 2011. The report contains important industrial indicators relevant to all establishments with 5 or more persons engaged.

The economic output of Sri Lanka as measured by GDP for the year 2013 recorded as 7.3 percent growth.

The survey results revealed that the mean monthly household income in Sri Lanka was Rs.46,207 in 2012

Percentage of poor in Sri Lanka (head count ratio) in 2009/10 (excluding Mannar, Mulativu and Killinochchi districts) is 8.9% (nearly 1.8 million of poor).

The responsibility to conduct a Census to assess the human and property damages has been assigned to the Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs and the Department of Census and Statistics.

The Survey of Construction Industries was aimed to cover 975 sample units in all provinces during the reference year 2010.