Census Department adds gender-segregated data on website

The Census and Statistics Department launched a new web page for ‘Gender Statistics’ to cater to the increasing demand for gender disaggregated data and the convenience of data users. 

The departmental website www.statistics.gov.lk features the new page which offers host of data categorised under different segments. This enables data users to access publications containing gender disaggregated data that had been published by the department to date.

A statement issued by the department launching the page said that the “objective of the Department in creating this new web page is to provide data users easy access to data disaggregated by gender pertaining to various sectors since the year 1995”.

Gender-disaggregated data on the six main themes, Population, Education, Health and Nutrition, Economic Contribution, Public Life and Special Concerns can be accessed from this web page, the statement said. 

The main sources of data presented in this website are censuses and surveys conducted by the department. In addition, data collected by external institutions, administrative data of external institutions and data published by those institutions are also made available in this web page.