New registrations of motor vehicles: other (quadricycles, motor homes)
New registrations of motor vehicles. Number, monthly.
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Data source: Department of Motor Traffic, Monthly Economic Indicators - August 2026 (2 Oct 2026)
Macro Lab · LK.SOC.VEHREG.OTHER.M · CC BY 4.0
About this series
- Source Department of Motor Traffic, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Number
- Date range Nov 2013 – Aug 2026
- Last checked 2 Oct 2026
Checks: 4 recorded for this series, listed below. Compiled by Department of Motor Traffic, read from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
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- Name in the warehouse
- New registrations of motor vehicles: Other (quadricycles, motor homes)
- Read from
- CBSL Monthly Economic Indicators (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
- Source page
- https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/statistics/economic-indicators/monthly-indicators
- Notes
- Read from the Transport table of CBSL's Monthly Economic Indicators; the Department of Motor Traffic compiles the registrations. Each issue gives the latest month and the same month a year earlier; every reading is kept as a vintage. The annual series LK.SOC.VEHREG.*.A come from the Economic and Social Statistics.
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Vintages
47 vintages, the latest published 2 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.
- Error in the sourceFeb 2019
Checked against another source.
Published value: 1 and 2, difference −1.
MEI 2019-03 (file 27039): VEHREG OTHER 2.0 -> 1.0, printed change 1 - does not match
The February 2019 MEI prints Other (quadricycles) as 4 -> 0 with an absolute change of 0; the change should be -4.
- A true readingSep 2018
The value moves 171% in one period, from 5 to 176, far outside its usual range.
Outlier: 5 and 176, difference −171.
LK.SOC.VEHREG.OTHER.M: 5.0 against about 176.0 in the months either side
Quadricycles and motor homes: a handful a month (0-5 in late 2018 and early 2019, a few hundred in other months); each printed the same by two issues.
- A true readingDec 2018
The value moves 71% in one period, from 2 to 73, far outside its usual range.
Outlier: 2 and 73, difference −71.
LK.SOC.VEHREG.OTHER.M: 2.0 against about 73.0 in the months either side
Quadricycles and motor homes: a handful a month (0-5 in late 2018 and early 2019, a few hundred in other months); each printed the same by two issues.
- A true readingFeb 2019
The value moves 110% in one period, from 1 to 111, far outside its usual range.
Outlier: 1 and 111, difference −110.
LK.SOC.VEHREG.OTHER.M: 1.0 against about 111.0 in the months either side
Quadricycles and motor homes: a handful a month (0-5 in late 2018 and early 2019, a few hundred in other months); each printed the same by two issues.