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Nadu (Imp) (retail, Narahenpita)

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

Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Daily Price Report - 11 July 2025 (11 Jul 2025)

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About this series

  • Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
  • Unit Rs/kg
  • Date range 21 Dec 2021 – 11 Jul 2025
  • Last checked 11 Jul 2025

Checks: 3 recorded for this series, listed below.

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Name in the warehouse
Nadu (Imp) (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: 'Nadu (Imp)'

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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 Mar 2022

    The report of 18 Mar 2022 gives the previous day's price as 150; that day's own report gave 140.

    Price previous: 140 and 150, difference 0.071.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2022/price_report_20220318e - Daily Price Report - 18 March 2022.pdf: previous-report column = 150.0, but 2022-03-15's own Today = 140.0 (7.1% 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 itself19 Apr 2022

    The report of 19 Apr 2022 gives the previous day's price as 185; that day's own report gave 85.

    Price previous: 85 and 185, difference 1.176.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2022/price_report_20220419 - Daily Price Report - 19 April 2022.pdf: previous-report column = 185.0, but 2022-04-18's own Today = 85.0 (117.6% 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 itself15 Sep 2022

    The report of 15 Sep 2022 gives the previous day's price as 205; that day's own report gave 200.

    Price previous: 200 and 205, difference 0.025.

    CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2022/price_report_20220915e - Daily Price Report - 15 September 2022.pdf: previous-report column = 205.0, but 2022-09-13's own Today = 200.0 (2.5% 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'.