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Labour Force ''000 Persons

Household population, labour force, employment and unemployment. Thousand persons, annual.

Level, quarterly

Data source: Department of Census and Statistics, Household Population, Labour Force, Employment and Unemployment (12 Aug 2026)

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About this series

  • Source Department of Census and Statistics, compiled by Macro Lab
  • Unit Thousand persons
  • Date range 2013 – 2025
  • Last checked 12 Aug 2026

Checks: 2 recorded for this series, listed below. Compiled by Department of Census and Statistics, read from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

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Name in the warehouse
Household population, labour force, employment and unemployment: Labour Force ''000 Persons
Read from
CBSL statistical tables (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
Source page
https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/statistics/statistical-tables
Notes
DCS compiles this; read from the CBSL workbook because the DCS release is PDF only (machine-readability override). The 2025 annual row of the CBSL quarterly workbook reads 8,408.0, but the four 2025 quarters average 8,554.1, which is what Economic and Social Statistics publishes. The workbook's annual row was not refreshed when Q4 was appended, so the ESS copy is canonical for this series.

Source documents

Household Population, Labour Force, Employment and UnemploymentCBSL · 12 Aug 2026 · 13 values

Vintages

One vintage so far, published 12 Aug 2026. Revisions show here once a later release changes a value.

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Source discrepancies

What the warehouse found when it checked this series: the same figure from two agencies, splice overlaps, published rates against ones recalculated from the index, and outliers.

  • Error in the source2025

    This series reads 8,408; the same figure from the other source reads 8,554.

    Two agencies: 8,408 and 8,554.138, difference −146.138.

    LK.LAB.LFS.LABOUR_FORCE.A: the Economic and Social Statistics copy differs from the canonical series

    Settled: the four 2025 quarters average 8,554.1, matching the ESS copy, not the workbook's 8,408.0. The ESS copy is canonical.

  • Error in the source2025

    The source's own figures disagree (8,408 against 8,554); the value shown agrees with the rest of the source.

    Resolved: 8,408 and 8,554.138, difference −146.138.

    The 2025 annual row of the CBSL quarterly workbook reads 8,408.0, but the four 2025 quarters average 8,554.1, which is what Economic and Social Statistics publishes. The workbook's annual row was not refreshed when Q4 was appended, so the ESS copy is canonical for this series.

    The quarterly workbook's annual row is stale; the ESS copy matches the mean of that year's four quarters and is now canonical.