Journal of Social Statistics
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Item බෝවන රෝගයන්හි ව්යාප්තිය කෙරෙහි, ජනගහනයේ ප්රාදේශීය ව්යප්තියෙහි බලපෑම(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Perera, P.G.T.N.; Nugaliyadda, D.R.K.; Sabrina, M.M.F.; Sewwandi, E.W.S.; Silva, P.H.N.K.; Senarathne, A.D.Y.Item ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පාසල් ළමුන් කෙරෙහි රූපවාහිනියෙන් වන බලපෑම(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Adhikari, A.A.S.D.; Ekanayake, H.K.; Liyanage, L.N.; Madhuwanthi, D.H.S.; Dayarathne, D.M.S.S.; Samarasinghe, K.N.Item ශ්රී ලංකාවේ යටිතල පහසුකම් සංවර්ධනය ආර්ථික වර්ධනය කෙරෙහි වන බලපෑම(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Sewwandi, E.W.S.; Silva, P.H.N.K.; Madhushani, G.R.Item විශ්වවිද්යාල ප්රවේශය කෙරෙහි පෞද්ගලික උපකාරක පන්තිවල බලපෑම(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Madusankha, A.A.M.; Ubesena, M.D.M.; Lorensuhewa, L.L.R.; Samaranayake, U.G.P.S.; Hapuarachchi, H.T.A.S.Item Impact of Apparel Industry on the Economy of Sri Lanka(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Embuldeniya, A.Impact of Apparel Industry on the Economy of Sri Lanka, as the research topic indicated the dependent variable of this study was the Economy of Sri Lanka that is measured with Gross Domestic Product while the independent variable was Apparel Industry that is measured with export performances. The general objective of this study is to identify the significance of the apparel industry and its impact to the economy of Sri Lanka. This research has used secondary data to gather information where Internet & websites, journal articles and books were main sources of information and percentages, frequencies, tables and charts were used to present data while using statistical packages as SPSS and Microsoft Excel were used to analyze data. Sri Lankan Apparels are at a stage where they can export quality products continuously to the export market. Sri Lanka's garment industry is highly concentrated in large scale factories. That concentration had save a large part of export earnings while providing job opportunities. Sri Lankan apparels are exported to the large number of countries all over the world including European Union and United States of America. The facts regarding apparel industry conclude there is a more impact of apparel industry than other industries to the total export earnings of the country over the past five years. The research has identified a positive relationship between Apparel Industry and Economy of Sri Lanka. Therefore the research has found that the Apparel industry is able to make an impact on economy of Sri Lanka.Item උඩරට එළවළු නිෂ්පාදනයේ උච්චාවචනය කෙරෙහි බලපාන සාධක (ලීක්ස් වගාව ආශ්රයෙන්)(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Rajapakshe, R.M.G.G.Item ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජන සංයුතියේ ව්යුහාත්මක වෙනස්කම්(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Perera, P.G.T.N.; Nugaliyadda, D.R.K.; Senarathne, A.D.Y.Item The relationship between university library usage and educational performance in University of Kelaniya(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Wijesinghe, P.; Dilanga, N.; Samudrika, H.; Lasanthi, C.; Medya, N.University libraries all over the world provide an excellent service for their users. Therefore it’s important to find out the relationship between the library usage and educational performance. Several studies have claimed that usage of library affects educational performance in a positive way. A questionnaire based survey was conducted to measure the relationship between university library usage and educational performance. Hence this study was mainly undertaken to explore the impact of library usage on undergraduate’s GPA. The questionnaires were distributed among 160 undergraduates using cluster sampling method. Responses received from the survey were turned into data that could be analyzed. The result of the study reveals that there is a positive relationship between university library usage and educational performance.Item කැලණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ සීමාවාසික පුහුණු වැඩසටහන් වල ඵලදායීතාව(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Dissanayake, M.A.; de Silva, K.; Ranasinghe, S.; Rathnathilake, R.M.M.B.Item ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ශ්රම බලකාය සහ රැකියා වෙළඳපොළ: විමර්ශනාත්මක අධ්යයනයක්(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Madubhashini, A.A.P.M.Item Socio- Economic background of the female inmates of elderly homes in Sri Lanka(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dissanayake, D.K.S.M.A.; Rathnathilaka, R.M.M.B.; de Silva, A.K.M.; Kamalawarna, R.S.S.Population ageing is a phenomenon that occurs due to the lower death rate and lower birth rate. Due to the decrease of death and birth rates, ageing is a result of the demographic transition. Among the Asian countries, Sri Lanka has come to the first place, which is having a higher rate in the demographic transition. There is a 13.2% of elderly dependency ratio in Sri Lanka according to the newest reports (2015) of Census of Statistics. So as to that this study aimed to investigate the Socio and Economic factors which influenced those elderly women to be at the elderly homes special reference to Iring Thilakarathna elders home in Imbulgoda. Simple random sampling method has used as the sampling technique in order to select 25 elderly women as the sample. A questionnaire, which had 19 questions, has used to find the factors, which influenced them to stay in elderly home such as poverty, no one to care, misbehavior of their laws, freedom etc. Statistical techniques such as tables, graphs, percentages, Chi-square test and correlation etc. have been used to analyze the data. According to findings most of them were poor in their economic situation and they do not like to bother their children as well. The majority of those elderly women were in the age group of 70-80 and they believe staying in an elderly home allowed them to keep away from the problematic background of their home. According to the results, specially the attitude problems of their children and their lives styles have thrown their older mothers to the such a place and they have created a background that those mothers are loneliness and helpless though they have number of children.Item Workplace stress in nursing: a literature review(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Nayomi, W.V.P.N.A world-wide shortage of nurses, a significant challenge facing the healthcare sector in many developed and developing countries. Health development (growth) is an important fact for Sri Lanka as a developing country. It gives free health system to its people around the clock. Nurses play an important role in this field to uplift the health development. Accordingly to Key social indicators Nurses per 10,000 persons 15.4 in Sri Lanka. Similarly statistics at present qualified nurses 32,272 employed in Sri Lanka and a nurse for every 650 persons. The government allocates a large amount of money for health within a one year. The aspiration of these expenditures is well progress of health sector. When nurses are doing their dignity correctly, it is a massive strength to improvement of health sector. The purpose of this study to review the knowledge on workplace stress in nursing. Stress in nurses has been linked to reduce physical and psychological health, reduce job satisfaction, increase sickness absence, increase staff turnover, and poorer job commitment. A literature search from January 2000 to 2014 was conducted using the key words nursing, stress, workplace stress, stress management and review 20 article according to above key words. Poor working relationship between nurses and doctors and other health care professionals, demanding communication and relationships with patients and relatives, emergency cases, high workload, under staffing and lack of support or positive feedback from senior nursing staff have been main source of stress for nurses.Item ගුණාත්මක පාසල් පද්ධතියක් සඳහා නව පාසල් පාදක කළමනාකරණ වැඩසටහනක යෝග්යතාව(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Kumari, W.G.Item ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පරිගණක සාක්ෂරතාවය(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Perera, L.G.D.Item Changing population growth rate and its determinants with the beginning of 21th century(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Liyanapathirana, L.N.M.In 19th century, Sri Lankan population increased slowly like other developing countries. But Sri Lanka began the 20th century with 3.6 million population. At the end of 20th century Sri Lankan population was 18.8 million. Furthermore at the mid of 20th century reported the largest population growth in Sri Lanka. In 1960 both death rate and birth rate began to decrease representing the next stage of population growth. Therefore at the beginning of 21th century population growth rate was less than before. However this changes of the population has effected more problems in Sri Lanka. Thus the main objective of this study was identifying the relationships between the population growth rate and its determinants with the beginning of 21th century in Sri Lanka. The study used time series data from secondary sources in Sri Lanka. To satisfy the objective of the study, charts, descriptive statistics and correlation coefficients have been employed. The data analyzed by SPSS and Excel software. According to results, with the beginning of 21th century the population has been increasing similar to past. The most people representing in 2011. But population growth rate has been going down. The population growth rate is positively related with birth rate, net migration rate, fertility rate, life expectancy and urban population. The death rate is negatively related with population growth rate. But strong relationships is representing with birth rate, life expectancy and urban population. There are not strong relationships between population and its determinants such as death rate, net migration rate and fertility rate. The most related variable for population growth rate is the birth rate. Hence the population changing mostly depend on the birth rate in Sri Lanka with the beginning of 21th century.Item වයස්ගත ජනගහනය හා ඒ ආශ්රිත ගැටලු(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Lakmali, D.Item A review of Socio Economic Factors impact on Cancer incidence(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Senavirathne, K.B.R.Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells, which can invade and spread to distant sites of the body. Cancer can have several health consequences and is a leading cause of death. Each year, 10 of millions of people are diagnosed with cancer around the world, and more than half of the patients eventually die from it. Even Sri Lanka the cancer incidence have increased from 2000. This article is a review of what are the socio economic factors affecting for cancer incidence across the world. Randomly selected 15 international journal articles published during 2000-2015 time period were used for this review. Around the world socioeconomic factors such as social background, occupation, income and habitual works and environmental factors are affect for cancer incidence in more and it effect on economically as well. However, there is no more studies about ‘socio economic factors affected on cancer in Sri Lanka’. Therefore further studies are needed to confirm these findings in other health and social welfare strategies in Sri Lanka.Item විශ්වවිද්යාල ප්රවේශය කෙරෙහි ශිෂ්යත්ව විභාගයේ බලපෑම පිළිබඳ අධ්යයනයකි (හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්රික්කය ඇසුරින්)(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Ruwanthi, W.G.R.Item ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිසුන් පාසල් හැර යාමට බලපානු ලබන සාධක පිළිබඳ විමසුමක්(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Yasintha, M.L.C.Item Impact of the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and food intake patterns on obesity among undergraduates in Sri Lanka(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jayawardana, Y.W.; Madhubhashini, A.A.P.M.; Madhushani, P.A.G.; Marapana, M.B.M.R.C.S.The rates of overweight and obesity are rising to epidemic proportions among the adults worldwide leading to a substantial increase in health risks associated with weight. Similarly, overweight and obesity rates in Sri Lanka has also been on a growing trend within the recent past. Addressing the current situation, this study aims to identify the factors of obesity among the undergraduates in Sri Lanka, particularly with regard to the relationship between BMI and food intake patterns. A sample of 500 undergraduates from University of Kelaniya who currently live with their parents, in hostels and boarding houses were selected using simple random sampling. Survey was carried out in representing the students Data collection was conducted by a self-administered questionnaire. Measures of heights and weights were used to calculate BMI (weight/height2) where BMI ≥25.0-29.9 and ≥30.0 was defined as overweight and obese respectively. Eating frequency and nutritional values of food was used to calculate calorie, fat, carbohydrate and fat intake per day. Out of the sample, 20.04 percent had BMI<18.5(underweight), 42.91 percent were BMI between 18.5-24.9 (normal weight), 18.83 percent were between 25.0- 29.9 (overweight) and 18.22 percent were BMI 30.0 or above (obese). Findings of this study identified that 18.8 percent and 18.2 percent of the study sample are overweight and obese respectively. Multiple regression and the independent t test revealed that the higher level of protein intake and lack of awareness among the participants as the factors that are directly associated with the obesity. Increasing level of overweight and obesity among the youth indicates the important role of health professionals in improving awareness, encouraging positive lifestyle and promoting preventative measures of unhealthy food culture among undergraduates in Sri Lanka.