Cameroon (Yaoundé, Africans)
Official title
Indice des prix de détail à la consommation des familles de
condition moyenne - Familles originaires
(Retail Consumer
Price Index for Middle-Class Families - Cameroon Families).
Scope
The index is compiled monthly and relates to middle-class
households with a monthly budget of about 21,900 CFA francs and an
average composition of 4.15 consumption units in 1964-65.
Official base
1968 = 100.
Source of weights
The weights and selected items were derived from a household expenditure
survey conducted in Yaoundé during the period 1964-65, among 764
Cameroon households representing all urban consumers. Only middle-class
households with a monthly budget of about 21,900 CFA francs and an
average composition of 4.15 consumption units were taken into account in
the computation of the index.
Weights and composition
| Major groups
| Number of items
| Weights
| Approximate number of price quotations
|
| Food
| 50 | 336 | ...
|
| Beverages and tobacco
| 11 | 103 | ...
|
| Rent, fuel, light, water and domestic services
| 7 | 75 | ...
|
| Furniture, furnishings and household equipment
| 16 | 71 | ...
|
| Clothing and footwear
| 13 | 163 | ...
|
| Transport
| 8 | 105 | ...
|
| Personal and medical care
| 13 | 50 | ...
|
| Recreation
| 4 | 51 | ...
|
| Services and miscellaneous
| 10 | 46 | ...
|
| Total
| 132 | 1000 | ...
|
Household consumption expenditure
Not available.
Method of data collection
Prices for most items are collected each month by agents or by
mail questionnaire, from about 60 retail outlets and service
establishments or from official documentation for those prices fixed
by government authorities. In addition, certain food items are
priced, through direct buying by agents on the 5th, 15th and
25th of each month in three public markets.
Housing
Rent quotations are obtained from reports submitted by a large real
estate company.
Specification of varieties
Not available.
Substitution, quality change, etc.
Not available.
Seasonal items
Seasonal fluctuations in the prices of certain fruits are taken into
account by pricing the items only when they are in season; during the
off season, the relevant item weights are assigned to replacement
items.
Computation
The index is computed according to the Laspeyres formula as a
weighted arithmetic average with fixed base, using weights corresponding
to 1964-65.
Organisation and publication
Direction de la statistique et de la comptabilité nationale:
Bulletin mensuel de statistique
(Yaoundé).