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	Table 003 (Labor, General)
	Labor Force Trends (1990-2000)
	Lab003e
Year                     Item		1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Household Population		11574	11796	12058	12278	12493	12736	12831	12871	12882	13169	13572
(Aged 10 Years & above)  (x1,000)
Labor Force,(x1,000)		6001	5877	5808	6032	6079	6106	6242	6266	6660	6673	6827
Employment		5047	5016	4962	5201	5281	5357	5537	5608	6049	6082	6310
Unemployment		954	862	846	831	798	749	705	658	611	591	517
Labor Force Participation Rate  (%)		51.9	49.8	48.2	49.1	48.7	47.9	48.6	48.7	51.7	50.7	50.3
(% of Household Population)
Employment Status  (%)		100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Public Sector Employees		21.5	22.9	20.0	17.4	16.4	15.5	15.0	15.2	14.5	14.4	13.4
Private Sector Employees		33.7	39.5	40.0	42.8	44.3	44.3	45.8	44.3	41.1	43.1	42.9
Employers		1.8	2.2	1.6	2.0	2.3	2.5	2.4	2.3	1.9	2.0	2.5
Self-employed (Own Account Worker)		29.2	25.4	27.2	27.4	27.2	28.3	26.8	28.8	28.9	28.3	28.3
Unpaid Family Workers		13.8	10.0	11.2	10.4	9.8	9.4	10.0	9.4	13.6	12.2	12.9
Unemployment  % of Labor Force		15.9	14.7	14.6	13.8	13.1	12.3	11.3	10.5	9.2	8.9	7.6
ｂy Sex
Male		11.8	10.2	10.7	9.7	9.7	9.0	8.2	7.7	6.5	6.7	5.8
Female		23.4	23.0	22.2	21.7	20.1	18.7	17.7	16.1	14.0	13.0	11.1
ｂy Level of Education
No Schooling		3.3	3.9	3.0	3.1	2.6	1.8	2.8	2.0	1.0	0.4	1.2
Grade 0-4 / Year 1-5		5.1	4.9	4.7	4.9	5.0	3.4	3.4	2.4	2.4	1.9	1.0
Grade 5-9 / Year 6-10		17.2	14.9	15.9	13.7	13.0	12.8	12.2	10.6	9.0	8.2	7.5
GCE(O/L) / NCGE*1		23.9	25.0	22.2	21.3	19.6	18.4	16.4	15.9	13.7	13.6	11.3
GCE(A/L) / HNCE*2  and above		29.4	24.6	22.4	23.3	23.7	20.0	19.0	19.3	17.5	17.9	14.9
ｂy Age Group
15-19 Years		40.1	37.6	39.1	38.4	40.7	60.5	36.5	34.0	27.3	28.4	23.3
20-29 Years		30.3	27.5	27.5	25.2	24.5	31.7	22.0	21.9	19.3	18.9	17.4
30-39 Years		8.4	9.1	7.8	8.4	7.6	8.0	6.0	5.2	4.9	4.4	3.6
40-49 Years		4.0	3.6	3.5	3.3	2.5	2.9	1.9	1.7	2.0	1.6	1.4
50 Years & above		2.1	1.0	1.4	1.5	1.2	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.0	0.8
© ２００7， KRI (Kusaka Research Institute)
Source:
Annual Report 2001  ,  Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Key:
＊１； NCGE; National Certificate of General Examination (Older version of O/L)
＊２； HNCE; Higher National Certificate of Educaton (Older version of A/L)
Revised:  2007(y)/04(m)/20(d)
Chief Editor:
Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Head, Department of Management Studies
University of Peradeniya.