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Coconut (wholesale, Dambulla)

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

Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Daily Price Report - 29 September 2020 (29 Sep 2020)

Macro Lab · LK.CPI.DAILY_PRICE.DAMBULLA_WHOLESALE_COCONUT.D · CC BY 4.0

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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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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 itself6 Mar 2019

    The report of 6 Mar 2019 gives the previous day's price as 33; that day's own report gave 34.

    Price previous: 34 and 33, difference 0.029.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190306e - Daily Price Report - 06 March 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 33.0, but 2019-03-05's own figure = 34.0 (2.9% 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 itself5 Apr 2019

    The report of 5 Apr 2019 gives the previous day's price as 39; that day's own report gave 32.

    Price previous: 32 and 39, difference 0.219.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190405e - Daily Price Report - 05 April 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 39.0, but 2019-04-04's own figure = 32.0 (21.9% 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 39; that day's own report gave 33.

    Price previous: 33 and 39, difference 0.182.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190408e - Daily Price Report - 08 April 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 39.0, but 2019-04-05's own figure = 33.0 (18.2% 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'.