Using the guides
Read the number, then read its context
Egg-rate questions often look simple—what is today’s price, what does a tray cost, or which market is lower—but a useful answer needs the market name, applicable date and unit. These guides explain that context with the same definitions used across EggRate Hub’s dated boards.
01 · Dates
Start with the row, not the headline
A board can contain a current national date and an older valid row for a market that has not published again. The market’s printed date decides what its number means. Our guides show why two rows should be treated as a same-day comparison only when those dates align, and why a carried-forward observation should remain visible rather than be silently relabelled.
Open the dated rate board →02 · Units
Convert one base rate consistently
Piece, tray, hundred and peti prices are not four independent observations. Each comes from the market’s integer-paise rate per egg: 30 eggs make a tray, 100 make the comparison unit and 210 make a peti. The guides separate exact multiplication from retail additions such as delivery, grading, packaging or seller margin.
Calculate any whole quantity →03 · Comparisons
Match the question to the right page
Use a market page for one centre’s history, a state page for the composition of represented markets, and the national board for cross-market scanning. Averages become clearer when the observation count, low, high and spread stay beside them. The guide collection focuses on what those published figures establish and avoids assigning causes the price series cannot prove.
Choose a market history →