The Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) which is a year long national sample survey conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) once in about five years time since 1980/81 is the main data source for the calculation of poverty indices for Sri Lanka. The HIES 2006/07 was conducted from July 2006 to June 2007 and this issue exposes the values of key poverty indicators discovered for the period by comparing the household food and nonfood consumption and expenditure data collected by the survey with the official poverty line of Sri Lanka.