Big Onion (Imp) (retail, Pettah)
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 1 Aug 2016 – 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
- Big Onion (Imp) (retail, Pettah)
- 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, Pettah retail, item as printed: 'Big Onion (Imp)'
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 itself24 Jan 2019
The report of 24 Jan 2019 gives the previous day's price as 75; that day's own report gave 80.
Price previous: 80 and 75, difference 0.062.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190124e_0 - Daily Price Report - 24 January 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 75.0, but 2019-01-22's own figure = 80.0 (6.2% 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'.
- Disagrees with itself24 Jan 2019
The report of 24 Jan 2019 gives the previous day's price as 75; that day's own report gave 80.
Price previous: 80 and 75, difference 0.062.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190124e_1 - Daily Price Report - 23 January 2018.pdf: previous-day column = 75.0, but 2019-01-22's own figure = 80.0 (6.2% 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'.
- Disagrees with itself18 Feb 2026
The report of 18 Feb 2026 gives the previous day's price as 180; that day's own report gave 170.
Price previous: 170 and 180, difference 0.059.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2026/price_report_20260218_e - Daily Price Report - 18 February 2026.pdf: previous-report column = 180.0, but 2026-02-16's own Today = 170.0 (5.9% 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 itself14 Aug 2026
The report of 14 Aug 2026 gives the previous day's price as 245; that day's own report gave 270.
Price previous: 270 and 245, difference 0.093.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2026/price_report_20260814_e - Daily Price Report - 14 August 2026.pdf: previous-report column = 245.0, but 2026-08-13's own Today = 270.0 (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'.