premise: Of those aged 15 or over, 7,857,370 (51.6%) were economically active, 4,199,558 (27.6%) did Homemaking, 1,431,105 (9.4%) were students, 914,934 (6.0%) were unable to work and 346,084 (2.3%) were pensioners. 521,938 (6.6%) of the economically active were unemployed. 604,540 Sri Lankans were living aboard for more than six months but were intending to return to Sri Lanka, mostly in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf (373,050 61.7%).
hypothesis: 72.4 in percent of those aged 15 and over weren't homemaking