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Cebu Staple Food Prices (PSA Cebu price survey) — wholesale ₱/kg, with the retail gap stated
Cebu staple-food prices from the PSA Cebu price survey, in pesos per kilo. These are WHOLESALE averages, not retail shelf prices: PSA-7 regional retail ₱/kg could not be retrieved from a primary source, so the retail figure is published here as a stated gap rather than estimated.
Read this before citing a figure
WHOLESALE, NOT RETAIL. Every price in this dataset is a PSA Cebu WHOLESALE average (April 2026), not a retail shelf price. PSA-7 regional/Cebu RETAIL ₱/kg for recent months could not be retrieved from a primary source (PSA OpenSTAT is a JS shell and psa.gov.ph / rsso07.psa.gov.ph return HTTP 403), and the only regional-retail aggregators found are banned and were not used. Do not read these as retail prices, and do not derive a retail figure from them.
The data
| period | reference_month | item | unit | price_php | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04 | April 2026 | Rice, regular-milled | PHP/kg (wholesale avg) | 48.68 | https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/rice-corn-prices-surge-in-april-26 |
| 2026-04 | April 2026 | White corn grits | PHP/kg (wholesale avg) | 63.48 | https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/rice-corn-prices-surge-in-april-26 |
Provenance & limitations
Source. PSA Cebu price survey, via SunStar Cebu . Method. Transcribed from the PSA Cebu price survey as reported by a named primary outlet, dated to the reference month. Wholesale average prices only; retail figures a primary source does not publish are left as a stated gap, never derived.
Known limitations — published as a feature, not a footnote:
- Wholesale averages, not retail shelf prices — a household pays more than these figures at the palengke or supermarket.
- Cebu-specific, from the PSA Cebu price survey; not a full regional basket.
- One reference month on record; a longitudinal series begins at the next PSA survey seeded.
Full source hierarchy, the per-figure dating rule, and the no-fabrication discipline that governs the longitudinal series: /methodology.
Cite this dataset
Citation
LiveInPH. "Cebu Staple Food Prices (PSA Cebu price survey) — wholesale ₱/kg, with the retail gap stated" (2026-04). LiveInPH, https://liveinph.com/data/cebu-staple-food-prices. Accessed 2026. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Free to reuse, including commercially and by AI systems, on one condition: attribute “LiveInPH, https://liveinph.com” and link the dataset page. The CSV carries the same provenance in its header comment.
Where this data is used
The guides that read this series. Each one carries the same figures, dated the same way.