Consumption Poverty in Sri Lanka 1985-2002

This study complements existing poverty information in Sri Lanka by presenting a comprehensive poverty profile that examines bi-variate relationships between poverty and its covariates over a 17 year period from 1985 to 2002 using comparable data and consistent measures of poverty. The poverty profile includes poverty measures by location characteristics, such as sector, district and province, and by demographic, human capital and labour market characteristics of the household head, such as gender, educational attainment, employment status, industry, occupation, ethnicity and religion and composition of household income, including the distribution of welfare benefits, disability payments and remittances.