Balaya (retail, Narahenpita)
Daily food prices, Pettah and Dambulla. Rs/kg, daily.
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Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Daily Price Report - 16 October 2026 (16 Oct 2026)
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About this series
- Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Rs/kg
- Date range 20 May 2020 – 16 Oct 2026
- Last checked 16 Oct 2026
Checks: 4 recorded for this series, listed below.
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Details
- Name in the warehouse
- Balaya (retail, Narahenpita)
- 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, Narahenpita retail, item as printed: 'Balaya'
Source documents
Vintages
400 vintages, the latest published 16 Oct 2026.
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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 itself18 Jun 2020
The report of 18 Jun 2020 gives the previous day's price as 480; that day's own report gave 495.
Price previous: 495 and 480, difference 0.03.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2020/price_report_20200618_e - Daily Price Report - 18 June 2020.pdf: previous-day column = 480.0, but 2020-06-17's own figure = 495.0 (3.0% 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 itself17 Jul 2020
The report of 17 Jul 2020 gives the previous day's price as 450; that day's own report gave 950.
Price previous: 950 and 450, difference 0.526.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2020/price_report_20200717_e - Daily Price Report - 17 July 2020.pdf: previous-day column = 450.0, but 2020-07-16's own figure = 950.0 (52.6% 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 560; that day's own report gave 640.
Price previous: 640 and 560, difference 0.125.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2022/price_report_20220318e - Daily Price Report - 18 March 2022.pdf: previous-report column = 560.0, but 2022-03-15's own Today = 640.0 (12.5% 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 itself23 Jun 2022
The report of 23 Jun 2022 gives the previous day's price as 1,080; that day's own report gave 1,060.
Price previous: 1,060 and 1,080, difference 0.019.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2022/price_report_20220623 - Daily Price Report - 23 June 2022.pdf: previous-report column = 1080.0, but 2022-06-20's own Today = 1060.0 (1.9% 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'.