Journal of Social Statistics
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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 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 උඩරට එළවළු නිෂ්පාදනයේ උච්චාවචනය කෙරෙහි බලපාන සාධක (ලීක්ස් වගාව ආශ්රයෙන්)(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Rajapakshe, R.M.G.G.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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Sri Lankan youth and their disclosure to computer literacy: Review(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Moragolla, U.R.G.D.A.K.Computer literacy is essential for success in the developing world (Hindi et al., 2016). The global acceptance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has majorly captured the area of education, as it plays a predominant role in creating well qualified generation (Godamanna et al. 2013). Furthermore, computer literacy is an important variable in economic growth and promoting development in 21st century (Tharanganie et al., 2011). The objective is to study is to explicate the degree of computer literacy and exposure to the internet among Sri Lankan youth. Qualitative data analyzing models was mostly used in data analyzing in prior surveys. There are some findings derived from prior surveys. The highest proportion age group of computer literacy is students when consider about age and economic activity of youth. Among them, highest proportion belongs to 18-24 years age group. In considering about sex and age group, percentage of male respondents with computer knowledge is higher than the female respondents. Approximately 60% of the male respondents were computer literate when compared to the 55% of computer literate females. The computer literacy among unemployed population, the highest proportion represents by age group 25-29 among other youth agers. In conclusion, computer literacy of youth in Sri Lanka mainly distributed among male population than female population. Further 25-29 age group has well qualified computer literacy than other youth agers. Improving skills of computer literacy is necessary step that must be taken due to effect of globalization at present.Item ශ්රී ලංකාවේ තේ කර්මාන්තයේ වත්මන් ප්රවණතා හඳුනා ගැනීම(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Madhubhashini, K.P.L.Item A review of socio-economic factors affecting for diabetes(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Weerasinghe, M.W.A.S.M.Diabetes is one of the principal healthcare challenge in worldwide and diabetes is a serious complex condition which can affect the entire body. Diabetes mellitus is classified in to three main subtypes. Namely, type 1 diabetes mellitus, type 2 diabetes mellitus and gestational diabetes mellitus, occurs during some pregnancies. Cardiovascular disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower limb assumption are main complications of diabetes. The prevalence of diabetic in the significant risk factors associated Age, gender, decreased literacy, long duration of diabetes, family history of diabetic nephropathy and poor glycemic control, physical activity, ethnicity, geographical background. Diabetic prevalence has risen faster in low and middle income countries than in high income country. There was 1.16 million cases of diabetes in Sri Lanka. The diabetes prevalence is increase for aged 65 years and above. Direct and indirect economic cost affecting for diabetes patients. The purpose of this study to determine the socio-economic factors affecting for diabetes. The information obtained the review of articles.Item විශ්වවිද්යාල විද්යාර්ථයින්ගේ අධ්යාපන සාර්ථකත්වය කෙරෙහි සේවානියුක්තියේ බලපෑම (කැලණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලය ඇසුරින්)(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dassanayake, D.M.H.Item Social Network Usage of Government Employees in Sri Lanka(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Rathnathilaka, R.M.M.B.; Madushani, H.D.P.; Perera, L.G.D.; Dasanayake, D.M.H.; Nayomi, W.V.P.M.; Kulasinghe, K.S.R.; Madushanka, G.L.D.H.C.In a modern day workplace social media place’s a pivotal role in various areas and provide certain benefits to a company such as easy sharing of information, Attune everyone in the organization to each other's needs and improve the way individuals think collectively etc. Due to that, social networks are associated with the productivity of an organization. Hence, this study was carried out with the following two objectives. They are identifying the factors affected for using social network sites by government employees and the government employees’ behavior on social network sites. The sample of this study was selected using two-stage cluster sampling method and it was selected from the Colombo district. Primary data were collected by using the structured interview method. From this study it was discovered that government employee’s age is the only factor that affects for using social media sites. More than three quarters of the government employees accessed social networking sites in the office and most of them used SNS’s for personal matters. Hence, number of working hours were wasted. Thereby government organizations should create their own set of rules, guidelines and policies to reduce the wasted time. Also monitoring the employee behavior on SNSs is a better way to effectively manage the use of SNSs by government employees.Item Impact of the relationship between obesity and food intake patterns among Sri Lankan people(Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dolapihilla, V.N.In the present situation non communicable dieses are spread soon and obesity can be identified as a reason for that. It means the surplus fat of our meals is stored in stomach, breast and back side in our body. As a result of this the person will be suffered from the obesity. Waist circumference, body mass index are used to define the obesity. Obesity will be a main reason for such daises as heartaches, high blood pressure, asthma, cancers, mental diseases, joint problems. When considering the present situation of Sri Lanka a number of 92530 of men and 269269 women are suffered from obesity. Accordingly the research problem of this study is the effect of food consumption for the obesity during 1980-2013. The independent variable is food consumption and the facts that affect to the independent variable is carbohydrate, lipid, milk, pulse and sugar. In this research secondary data was collected by the annual report of census and statistics department about income and expenditure of households. Dependent variable was obesity and data was collected by annual health report. A multiple regression was conducted with these data. Also graphs were used to identify the variation of obesity and food consumption during years. It was admired by 95% significant level and effect of lipid was (p=.016) and the effect of carbohydrate was (p=.049).Accordingly carbohydrate and lipid has affected to the obesity. Genetic, physical activity, gender, age, economic level, pregnancy, mental stress, are affected to the obesity and the main point is the foods which our body is consumed does not dissolve. Then they are kept in our body in an unnecessary way. That means food consumption affects to the obesity in Sri Lanka