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Labour force (15 years and above) (SDDS historical series)

Labour force survey. Thousand persons, quarterly.

Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, More Data (10 Jan 2018)

Macro Lab · LK.LAB.LFS.SDDS.LABOUR_FORCE.Q · CC BY 4.0

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About this series

  • Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
  • Unit Thousand persons
  • Date range 2004 Q1 – 2017 Q2
  • Last checked 10 Jan 2018

Checks: 4 recorded for this series, listed below.

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Details

Name in the warehouse
Labour force (15 years and above) (SDDS historical series)
Read from
CBSL SDDS 'More Data' workbooks (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
Source page
https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/statistics/special-data-dissemination-standard
Notes
CBSL SDDS 'More Data' workbook, DCS Labour Force Survey, quarterly. 2005 is entirely 'na' in the source (LFS was not run quarterly that year because of the tsunami - the source's own note) and 2011-Q4/2012-Q1 are 'na' too; both are left as gaps, not zero and not interpolated. Overlaps the held LK.LAB.LFS.LABOUR_FORCE.Q (2015 on) - see check() for the shared 2015Q1-2017Q2 agreement; this series starts 11 years earlier (2004), so per the OVERLAP RULE both stay canonical and this series links to the held one as its predecessor.

Source documents

More DataCBSL · 10 Jan 2018 · 48 values

Vintages

One vintage so far, published 10 Jan 2018. 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 8,925; the same figure from the other source reads 8,183. Compared with LK.LAB.LFS.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 9,010; the same figure from the other source reads 8,263. Compared with LK.LAB.LFS.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 9,008; the same figure from the other source reads 8,225. Compared with LK.LAB.LFS.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 8,947; the same figure from the other source reads 8,187. Compared with LK.LAB.LFS.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.