Some Special Activities
Last updated on 11th Aug 2009
Workshop on crop cutting survey July 27 and 28, 2009
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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Demographic and Health Survey 2006/2007
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.
Census Department Measures ICT Penetration into Households
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.
Classification of GN divisions by poverty
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.
Activities of Sample Surveys Division in the year -2005
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