Egg (retail, Pettah)
Daily food prices, Pettah and Dambulla. Rs/each, daily.
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Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Daily Price Report - 21 September 2020 (21 Sep 2020)
Macro Lab · LK.CPI.DAILY_PRICE.PETTAH_RETAIL_EGG.D · CC BY 4.0
About this series
- Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Rs/each
- Date range 1 Aug 2016 – 21 Sep 2020
- Last checked 21 Sep 2020
Checks: 3 recorded for this series, listed below.
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Details
- Name in the warehouse
- Egg (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: 'Eggs'
Source documents
Vintages
400 vintages, the latest published 21 Sep 2020.
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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 itself25 Apr 2019
The report of 25 Apr 2019 gives the previous day's price as 18; that day's own report gave 17.5.
Price previous: 17.5 and 18, difference 0.029.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190425e - Daily Price Report - 25 April 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 18.0, but 2019-04-24's own figure = 17.5 (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 itself26 Apr 2019
The report of 26 Apr 2019 gives the previous day's price as 18; that day's own report gave 17.5.
Price previous: 17.5 and 18, difference 0.029.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190426e - Daily Price Report - 26 April 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 18.0, but 2019-04-25's own figure = 17.5 (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 itself7 Sep 2020
The report of 7 Sep 2020 gives the previous day's price as 22.5; that day's own report gave 23.
Price previous: 23 and 22.5, difference 0.022.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2020/price_report_20200907e - Daily Price Report - 07 September 2020.pdf: previous-day column = 22.5, but 2020-09-04's own figure = 23.0 (2.2% 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'.