Computer Literacy among male higher than female – DCS
The Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) has released the bulletin of the latest survey on computer literacy in Sri Lanka conducted during first six months of 2017.
Director General of DCS Dr. Amara Satharasinghe said that Computer Literacy rate among those in the age group of aged 5-69 years of Sri Lanka has been estimated as 28.3 percent. The Urban sector reported the highest computer literacy rate of 41.1 percent among residential sectors while computer literacy rates of Rural and Estate sectors are 26.5 percent and 9.5 percent respectively.
According to the findings of the survey, the computer literacy among male is 30.7 percent which is higher than that of female (26.1%). Comparing the all the age groups, those in the age between 15 – 19 years reported the highest com...