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Red Onion (Local) (retail, Dambulla)

Daily food prices, Pettah and Dambulla. Rs/kg, daily.

Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Daily Price Report - 15 October 2026 (15 Oct 2026)

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About this series

  • Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
  • Unit Rs/kg
  • Date range 1 Aug 2016 – 15 Oct 2026
  • Last checked 15 Oct 2026

Checks: 7 recorded for this series, listed below.

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Name in the warehouse
Red Onion (Local) (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: 'Red Onion (Local)'

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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 itself24 Jan 2019

    The report of 24 Jan 2019 gives the previous day's price as 98; that day's own report gave 108.

    Price previous: 108 and 98, difference 0.093.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190124e_0 - Daily Price Report - 24 January 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 98.0, but 2019-01-22's own figure = 108.0 (9.3% 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 itself24 Jan 2019

    The report of 24 Jan 2019 gives the previous day's price as 98; that day's own report gave 108.

    Price previous: 108 and 98, difference 0.093.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190124e_1 - Daily Price Report - 23 January 2018.pdf: previous-day column = 98.0, but 2019-01-22's own figure = 108.0 (9.3% 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 itself5 Apr 2019

    The report of 5 Apr 2019 gives the previous day's price as 75; that day's own report gave 85.

    Price previous: 85 and 75, difference 0.118.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190405e - Daily Price Report - 05 April 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 75.0, but 2019-04-04's own figure = 85.0 (11.8% 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 itself26 Mar 2020

    The report of 26 Mar 2020 gives the previous day's price as 318; that day's own report gave 295.

    Price previous: 295 and 318, difference 0.078.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2020/price_report_20200326_e - Daily Price Report - 26 March 2020.pdf: previous-day column = 318.0, but 2020-03-23's own figure = 295.0 (7.8% 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 95; that day's own report gave 105.

    Price previous: 105 and 95, difference 0.095.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2020/price_report_20200827e - Daily Price Report - 27 August 2020.pdf: previous-day column = 95.0, but 2020-08-26's own figure = 105.0 (9.5% 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 itself7 Sep 2020

    The report of 7 Sep 2020 gives the previous day's price as 150; that day's own report gave 118.

    Price previous: 118 and 150, difference 0.271.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2020/price_report_20200907e - Daily Price Report - 07 September 2020.pdf: previous-day column = 150.0, but 2020-09-04's own figure = 118.0 (27.1% 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 itself18 Mar 2022

    The report of 18 Mar 2022 gives the previous day's price as 225; that day's own report gave 215.

    Price previous: 215 and 225, difference 0.047.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2022/price_report_20220318e - Daily Price Report - 18 March 2022.pdf: previous-report column = 225.0, but 2022-03-15's own Today = 215.0 (4.7% 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'.

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