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Labour Force ''000 Persons

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

Level, annual

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 2015 Q1 – 2026 Q1
  • Last checked 12 Aug 2026

Checks: 4 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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Details

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).

Source documents

Household Population, Labour Force, Employment and UnemploymentCBSL · 12 Aug 2026 · 45 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.

  • Two vintages2015 Q1

    This series reads 8,183; the same figure from the other source reads 8,925. Compared with LK.LAB.LFS.SDDS.LABOUR_FORCE.Q.

    Two agencies: 8,924.716 and 8,183.302, difference 741.414.

    LFS SDDS predecessor vs held LABOUR_FORCE: 9.06% apart

    SDDS predecessor 8924.716 vs held 8183.302 (9.06% apart) - every 2016/2017 quarter in the same two series agrees to many decimal places, confirming this is a 2015-specific re-benchmarking of the labour force (population weights/sampling frame) that the frozen SDDS file never picked up, not an ongoing or random disagreement.

  • Two vintages2015 Q2

    This series reads 8,263; the same figure from the other source reads 9,010. Compared with LK.LAB.LFS.SDDS.LABOUR_FORCE.Q.

    Two agencies: 9,009.97 and 8,263.333, difference 746.637.

    LFS SDDS predecessor vs held LABOUR_FORCE: 9.04% apart

  • Two vintages2015 Q3

    This series reads 8,225; the same figure from the other source reads 9,008. Compared with LK.LAB.LFS.SDDS.LABOUR_FORCE.Q.

    Two agencies: 9,008.135 and 8,224.693, difference 783.442.

    LFS SDDS predecessor vs held LABOUR_FORCE: 9.53% apart

  • Two vintages2015 Q4

    This series reads 8,187; the same figure from the other source reads 8,947. Compared with LK.LAB.LFS.SDDS.LABOUR_FORCE.Q.

    Two agencies: 8,947.493 and 8,186.563, difference 760.93.

    LFS SDDS predecessor vs held LABOUR_FORCE: 9.29% apart

1 more check where two vintages differ.