{"id":91703,"date":"2019-07-25T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T22:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91703"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T22:37:13","slug":"has-sinhala-population-declined-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/25\/has-sinhala-population-declined-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"HAS SINHALA POPULATION DECLINED IN SRI LANKA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The\ndetermination of increase or decrease in population of different communities or\nraces living in Sri Lanka would be based on the actual census results and\npre-emptive decisions just listing to gossips talks going on in village tea\nboutiques is unreasonable and misleading. Sinhala community is frequently\ndisturbed by fabricated information that Sinhala people in the country is\nbecoming invisible without submitting scientific facts or reasons for it.&nbsp; This type of stupid information was spread\nduring the LTTE war as strategic maneuvring by some Boeotia LTTE theorists, who\nfollowed the gobbles methods intending to achieving objectives. A similar type\nof methods was used by Yahapalana strategists during the presidential election\nin 2015 and now they are hiding without information to prove the maneuvring of\nthem. The Census and Statistics Department of Sri Lanka conducts a detailed\ncensus and published actual statistics.&nbsp;\nThese statics are 99.5% accurate and from 1881 data has already\npublished. From 1881 to 1921 population statistics may have errors as the\ninvestigators (data collectors) had to face various difficulties when they were\ncollecting data due to several reasons.&nbsp;\nIn the early period, data collectors had not understood and the\nresponsibility of the role and this situation would have contributed to\ngenerate errors in the data collection process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nfollowing were could be considered as major reasons to incur errors in the\nprocess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the data collection\nprocess, an actual number of people in a family was not recorded in the data\nforms or twice countered when family members did not give accurate information\nto data collectors, but such errors are corrected by the authority using\nstatistical techniques at an acceptable level.&nbsp;\nThere was evidence that instead of actual family members others were\nprovided information to census officers.<\/li><li>There may be wilful errors\nincurred if investigators do not perform the job not visiting families or\nignoring to visit families due to difficulties to visit families due to\nremoteness they are living. <\/li><li>Counting certain\ncommunities which have a life of migrating from one place to another for a\nshorter period might ignore the accurate counting of them and correct\ninformation of them may not come to data forms.&nbsp;\nThe statistics in these communities are negligible. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nI have participated as a data collector in 1971 census, I noticed the\npossibilities to ignore or estimate the number of members in a family by rural\nofficers (Grama Niladari) rather than counting an actual population of\nfamilies. However, the department uses appropriate statistical techniques to\ncorrect such errors and this type mistakes be possible in any country and these\nare not considered evidence that the survey results were not accurate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\nto published statistics recorded Sinhala population from 1891 to 2012 is given\nbelow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Year&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; %<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1891&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2041200&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 67.86%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1901&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2330800&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 65.36%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1911&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2715500&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 66.13%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1921&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3016200&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 67.05%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1931&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3473000&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 65.45%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1946&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4620500&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 69.41%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1953&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5616700&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 69.36%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1963&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 7512900&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 71.00%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1971&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9131241&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 71.96<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1981&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10979561&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 73.95%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2001&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Not available<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2011&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 15250081&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 74.90%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When\nexamining the statistics, it seems that Sinhala population has been increased,\nbut the percentage of Sinhala population contributing to the total population\nhas been the varied result of changes of the volume of other communities and in\n2011, Sinhala population recorded as 74.90%, which might be increased to 77.00%\nin 2020. The truth is that no one can stop the increase in Sinhala population\nand it would be an impossible task.&nbsp;\nTherefore, people should not trust gossip talks going on in village tea\nboutiques.&nbsp; Sinhala people must act as an\nintelligent community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some\npeople spread information that Muslim population increases faster than other\ncommunities, it may contain true information when looking at population\nstatistics, however, we cannot determine it without the growth rate of each\ncommunity. The growth rate of each community means the difference between birth\nrate and the death rate of each community and the difference between birth rate\nand death rare is considered as the rate of growth.&nbsp; I have no idea whether Sri Lanka calculates\nthe growth rate of each community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The determination of increase or decrease in population of different communities or races living in Sri Lanka would be based on the actual census results and pre-emptive decisions just listing to gossips talks going on in village tea boutiques is unreasonable and misleading. Sinhala community is frequently disturbed by fabricated information that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}