Jayaweera, R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3422-0728
Verma, R. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5848-5221
Article History
Received: 12 September 2023
Accepted: 20 December 2023
First Online: 4 January 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declared that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study used household income and expenditure data (2016/17) conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka, which is the government's official data set used for poverty calculation. The Department of Census and Statistics have taken the ethical clearance, but the evidence are not published.