Lanka Interoperability Framework (LIFe) V2

Label

Description

Name

National_ID_Number

Definition

Sri Lankan National Identity Card Number.

Presently National Identity Card is issued to a person above 16 years of age.

NID number is a unique number used to uniquely identify a person (above 16 years).

In future, the National Identity Number will be issued at birth to everyone. Therefore every citizen of Sri Lanka will have a unique National ID number.

Format

NNNNNNNNNN

Example

0712303441

Validation

Length has to be 10 characters.

Only numeric values can be entered.

No alphabetical characters or any other special characters allowed including blank spaces.

Optional Validations

Validation to check the validity of the last digit which is the Check Digit.

Validation to check the validity of the Age and the first 2 digits of the NID number.

Values

-

Default

-

Comments

Suggested NID representation

N - Century

0 for births in 20^th century

( January 1^st, 1901 TO December 31^st, 2000)

1 for births in 21^st century

( January 1^st, 2001 TO December 31^st, 2100)

2 for births in 22^nd century

( January 1^st, 2101 TO December 31^st, 2200)

3 for births in 23^rd century

( January 1^st, 2201 TO December 31^st, 2300)

5 for births in 20^th century and the number of births for a day are more than 999

6 for births in 21^st century and the number of births for a day are more than 999

7 for births in 22^nd century and the number of births for a day are more than 999

8 for births in 23^rd century and the number of births for a day are more than 999

NN - Year of birth

NNN - Birth day of the year. Birth date as the day of the year.

For males 1-500 ( Birth day of year )

For females 501 – 999 ( Birth day of year + 500)

NNN - Number of birth

N - Check digit

Date

October 2005

Version

V0.9