Potato (Local) (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 - 15 October 2026 (15 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 – 15 Oct 2026
- Last checked 15 Oct 2026
Checks: 3 recorded for this series, listed below.
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Details
- Name in the warehouse
- Potato (Local) (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: 'Potato (Local)'
Source documents
Vintages
400 vintages, the latest published 15 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 itself23 Jun 2022
The report of 23 Jun 2022 gives the previous day's price as 380; that day's own report gave 370.
Price previous: 370 and 380, difference 0.027.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2022/price_report_20220623 - Daily Price Report - 23 June 2022.pdf: previous-report column = 380.0, but 2022-06-21's own Today = 370.0 (2.7% 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 400; that day's own report gave 420.
Price previous: 420 and 400, difference 0.048.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2022/price_report_20220915e - Daily Price Report - 15 September 2022.pdf: previous-report column = 400.0, but 2022-09-13's own Today = 420.0 (4.8% 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 itself3 Feb 2026
The report of 3 Feb 2026 gives the previous day's price as 470; that day's own report gave 450.
Price previous: 450 and 470, difference 0.044.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2026/price_report_20260203_e - Daily Price Report - 03 February 2026.pdf: previous-report column = 470.0, but 2026-02-02's own Today = 450.0 (4.4% 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'.