Tomato (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)
Macro Lab · LK.CPI.DAILY_PRICE.PETTAH_RETAIL_TOMATO.D · CC BY 4.0
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: 7 recorded for this series, listed below.
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Details
- Name in the warehouse
- Tomato (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: 'Tomato'
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 87; that day's own report gave 80.
Price previous: 80 and 87, difference 0.087.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190124e_0 - Daily Price Report - 24 January 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 87.0, but 2019-01-22's own figure = 80.0 (8.8% 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 itself24 Jan 2019
The report of 24 Jan 2019 gives the previous day's price as 87; that day's own report gave 80.
Price previous: 80 and 87, difference 0.087.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190124e_1 - Daily Price Report - 23 January 2018.pdf: previous-day column = 87.0, but 2019-01-22's own figure = 80.0 (8.8% 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 itself8 Apr 2019
The report of 8 Apr 2019 gives the previous day's price as 65; that day's own report gave 60.
Price previous: 60 and 65, difference 0.083.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190408e - Daily Price Report - 08 April 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 65.0, but 2019-04-05's own figure = 60.0 (8.3% 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'.
- Disagrees with itself10 Apr 2019
The report of 10 Apr 2019 gives the previous day's price as 135; that day's own report gave 70.
Price previous: 70 and 135, difference 0.929.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190410e - Daily Price Report - 10 April 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 135.0, but 2019-04-09's own figure = 70.0 (92.9% 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 itself2 May 2019
The report of 2 May 2019 gives the previous day's price as 120; that day's own report gave 100.
Price previous: 100 and 120, difference 0.2.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2019/price_report_20190502e - Daily Price Report - 02 May 2019.pdf: previous-day column = 120.0, but 2019-04-30's own figure = 100.0 (20.0% 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 itself23 Jun 2022
The report of 23 Jun 2022 gives the previous day's price as 500; that day's own report gave 640.
Price previous: 640 and 500, difference 0.219.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2022/price_report_20220623 - Daily Price Report - 23 June 2022.pdf: previous-report column = 500.0, but 2022-06-21's own Today = 640.0 (21.9% 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 itself15 Sep 2022
The report of 15 Sep 2022 gives the previous day's price as 250; that day's own report gave 280.
Price previous: 280 and 250, difference 0.107.
CBSL/downloads/Statistics/Economic Indicators/Price Report/2022/price_report_20220915e - Daily Price Report - 15 September 2022.pdf: previous-report column = 250.0, but 2022-09-13's own Today = 280.0 (10.7% 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'.