Coconut (retail, Dambulla)
Daily food prices, Pettah and Dambulla. Rs/nut, daily.
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Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Daily Price Report - 29 September 2020 (29 Sep 2020)
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About this series
- Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Rs/nut
- Date range 1 Aug 2016 – 29 Sep 2020
- Last checked 29 Sep 2020
Checks: 3 recorded for this series, listed below.
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Details
- Name in the warehouse
- Coconut (retail, Dambulla)
- Read from
- CBSL Daily Price Report (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
- Source page
- https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/statistics/economic-indicators/daily-price-report
- Notes
- Daily Price Report, Dambulla retail, item as printed: 'Coconut'
Source documents
Vintages
400 vintages, the latest published 29 Sep 2020.
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Source discrepancies
What the warehouse found when it checked this series: the same figure from two agencies, splice overlaps, published rates against ones recalculated from the index, and outliers.
- Disagrees with itself5 Apr 2019
The report of 5 Apr 2019 gives the previous day's price as 44; that day's own report gave 37.
Price previous: 37 and 44, difference 0.189.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190405e - Daily Price Report - 05 April 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 44.0, but 2019-04-04's own figure = 37.0 (18.9% apart)
The report's 'yesterday' column differs from the previous report's 'today' on 0.2% of comparisons in 2021-2026 (364 of 209,923) and 1.1% in 2019-2020 (357 of 33,249, clustered in a few reports whose 'yesterday' column restates a different day): CBSL correcting a price the next day, or a typo in one of the two. Which is right is not known; the observation is each day's own 'today'.
- Disagrees with itself8 Apr 2019
The report of 8 Apr 2019 gives the previous day's price as 44; that day's own report gave 40.
Price previous: 40 and 44, difference 0.1.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190408e - Daily Price Report - 08 April 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 44.0, but 2019-04-05's own figure = 40.0 (10.0% apart)
The report's 'yesterday' column differs from the previous report's 'today' on 0.2% of comparisons in 2021-2026 (364 of 209,923) and 1.1% in 2019-2020 (357 of 33,249, clustered in a few reports whose 'yesterday' column restates a different day): CBSL correcting a price the next day, or a typo in one of the two. Which is right is not known; the observation is each day's own 'today'.
- Disagrees with itself27 Aug 2020
The report of 27 Aug 2020 gives the previous day's price as 63; that day's own report gave 69.
Price previous: 69 and 63, difference 0.087.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2020/price_report_20200827e - Daily Price Report - 27 August 2020.pdf: previous-day column = 63.0, but 2020-08-26's own figure = 69.0 (8.7% apart)
The report's 'yesterday' column differs from the previous report's 'today' on 0.2% of comparisons in 2021-2026 (364 of 209,923) and 1.1% in 2019-2020 (357 of 33,249, clustered in a few reports whose 'yesterday' column restates a different day): CBSL correcting a price the next day, or a typo in one of the two. Which is right is not known; the observation is each day's own 'today'.