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Labour Statistics-Labour Force (Overall)

Foreign employment (Data Library). 000 persons, quarterly.

Level, annual

Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, CBSL Economic Data Library (wizard)

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About this series

  • Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
  • Unit 000 persons
  • Date range 1997 Q1 – 2026 Q2
  • Last checked 2 Oct 2026

Checks: 1 recorded for this series, listed below.

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Name in the warehouse
Labour Statistics-Labour Force (Overall)
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CBSL Economic Data Library (wizard) (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
Source page
https://www.cbsl.lk/eresearch
Notes
CBSL Data Library, subject 'Labour Force and Employment'. (a) Data up to 2010 are for the household population aged 10 years and above and data from 2011 onwards are for the household population aged 15 years and above (b) Northern Province is excluded for the years 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2010. (c) Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts were excluded for 2004 annual estimates. (d) Data from 2011 onwards include all districts. (e) QLFS was conducted as a one-off survey in August 2005. (f) Data excludes both Northern and Eastern Provinces for the years from 1990 to 2002, 2006 and 2007. (g) QLFS was not conducted in the 1st quarter of 2012 (h) In July 2016, the Department of Census and Statistics published a re-weighted and revised labour force data series for 2011 onwards.

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Vintages

One vintage so far, published 2 Oct 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 source2024 Q3

    Checked against another source.

    Successor diff: 8,180 and 7,495, difference 685.

    CBSL's statistical tables (DCS labour force survey) against the Data Library

    The library's labour force for 2024 Q3 is 7,495 thousand, but its own employed (7,839) and unemployed (341) add to 8,180, which is what the statistical tables give.