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| Sunday, 27 July 2003 |
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Central Bank publishes socio-economic data The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has released its latest data folder Sri Lanka Socio-Economic Data 2003. This is the 26th volume of the series. The 85-page booklet contains 79 statistical tables and 12 charts covering the latest information on human resources, national accounts, agriculture, industry, external trade and tourism, external finance, prices and wages, the fiscal sector, the financial sector, social and economic services and socio-economic conditions in Sri Lanka. The publication has been expanded to provide disagregated information at the provincial level on key economic variables, including GDP in current terms, electricity services, water consumption and revenue and postal, telecommunication and transportation services. The volume presents a set of country comparisons for the SAARC and South East Asian region of key socio-economic variables namely demography, social indicators, national accounts, agriculture and industry, monetary and fiscal indicators, external trade and finance and inflation. It also contains province-wise information on socio-economic conditions from the Consumer Finances and Socio-Economic Survey 1996/97 conducted by the Central Bank, along with a comparable set of countrywide data derived from the six previous surveys in the series that commenced in 1953. The publication is available for sale at the Publication Sales Counter of the Department of Information, Central Bank, Rajagiriya, regional offices of the Central Bank in Matara, Matale and Anuradhapura and leading bookshops in Colombo. It is also available on diskette. |
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