Special activities

Agriculture and Environment Statistics Division (AESD) has organized a two-day workshop on 27th and 28th July 2009 in the Training Division with a view to discuss the current methodology and related problems of the crop estimating survey popularly known as “Crop cutting survey on paddy” and to make suggestions in the improvement of quality of data. The workshop was attended by Heads of District Statistics Branches other than the Northern Province. Representatives from Research and Special Survey Division, Field Management Division, Statistics Branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Development along with the Staff of the AESD participated in this program. The participant were grouped in to three teams each consisting about fifteen members and they were briefed on the objectives of the gathering and requested them to come up with proposals while considering issues and difficulties that they are currently facing in the conduct of the survey in the field.

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Forth round of Demographic and Health Survey in Sri Lanka was conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics in 2006/2007. The survey covered all parts of the country excluding Northern Province and it provides important information on Fertility Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition and awareness of HIV/AIDS etc. Information was collected from 23,000 housing units. Main target group of the survey was ever married women in the 15-49 age group and their children below 5 years of age at the time of the survey.

Preliminary findings were presented on 11th December 2008 to the key data users.

Some preliminary report has published in Department of Census and Statistics web site.

Many experts believe that computer literacy has become the fourth pillar to the traditional three tenets of education: reading, writing, and arithmetic, and that a failure to acquire the now requisite technical knowledge will prevent large segments of population from realizing the fruits of the Information Age. The Department of Census and Statistics recently conducted a Household Survey on Computer Literacy. The main objective of this survey was to assess the computer literacy of household population in the age group of 5 to 69 years and e-readiness of households. It also examined the availability of ICT related infrastructure facilities and use of computers and e-mail/Internet etc at households.

This survey covered the whole country other than Northern Province and Trincomalee district in the Eastern Province. Number of households surveyed was 19,628. Altogether 63,225 persons in the age group of 5 � 69 years were interviewed. Report of this survey will be released soon.

Grama Niladari Divisions of the country have been categorised according to their levels of poverty. The Department of Census and Statistics compiled a report depicting these levels of poverty. The report was presented to Prime Minister Rathnasiri Wickremanayake at his office recently by Director General of the Department D.B.P..S. Vidyaratne. This report is useful for regional planning, poverty eradication programmes and the allocation of Development aid.