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| Table 011 (Labor, General) | |||||||||
| Foreign Employment(Migrant)(Skill) (1995-2000) | |||||||||
| Lab011e | |||||||||
| Year Item | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | |||
| The ratio ( Sri Lankans traveller : migrants) | 3 : 1 | 3 : 1 | 3.4 : 1 | 3 : 1 | 3 : 1 | 3 : 1 | |||
| Migrants (average number /day) | 446 | 445 | 410 | 438 | 491 | 497 | |||
| Migrants (male) (%) | 27% | 27% | 25% | 34% | 35% | 33% | |||
| Migrants (female) (%) | 73% | 73% | 75% | 66% | 65% | 67% | |||
| The ratio of migrants (male : female) | 1 : 2.8 | 1 : 2.8 | 1 : 3 | 1 : 2 | 1 : 1.8 | 1 : 2 | |||
| Migrants through registered sources (%) | 68.8% | 71.0% | 76.6% | 70.4% | 67.1% | 70.0% | |||
| Migrants through direct sources (%) | 31.2% | 29.0% | 23.4% | 29.6% | 32.9% | 30.0% | |||
| Skill composition of migrants (%) | |||||||||
| Professional | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |||
| Middle Level | 1.4% | 1.2% | 1.1% | 1.9% | 1.8% | 2.4% | |||
| Clerical & Related | 2.7% | 2.0% | 2.4% | 3.1% | 3.5% | 3.2% | |||
| Skilled | 15.8% | 15.0% | 16.4% | 19.9% | 20.9% | 20.1% | |||
| Unskilled excluding House Maid | 13.6% | 13.4% | 13.6% | 21.3% | 24.2% | 19.3% | |||
| House Maids | 66.0% | 68.0% | 66.1% | 53.4% | 48.9% | 54.4% | |||
| Major receivers of Sri Lankan migrant (%) | |||||||||
| Saudi Arabia | 34.9% | 35.2% | 32.0% | 37.2% | 35.4% | 33.7% | |||
| Kuwait | 22.2% | 25.2% | 25.3% | 18.0% | 18.6% | 18.4% | |||
| United Arab Emirates | 15.5% | 13.8% | 15.9% | 13.7% | 16.8% | 18.0% | |||
| © 2011, KRI (Kusaka Research Institute) | Revised: 2011(y)/04(m)/25(d) | ||||||||
| Source: | Chief Editor: | ||||||||
| Statistical Hand Book on Migration 2000, | Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D.) | ||||||||
| Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment | Former Head, Department of Management Studies | ||||||||
| University of Peradeniya. | |||||||||