Cameroon (Yaoundé, Europeans)
Official title
Indice des prix de détail à la consommation familiale - Familles
non originaires
(Retail Consumer Price Index for
Non-Indigenous Families).
Scope
The index is compiled monthly and relates to European households with
more than one person, in Yaoundé.
Official base
May 1966 = 100.
Source of weights
The weights and selected items were derived from a household
expenditure survey conducted in Yaoundé from March to July 1965 among
91 European households with more than one person.
Weights and composition
| Major groups
| Number of items
| Weights
| Approximate number of price quotations
|
| Food
| 50 | 373 | ...
|
| Beverages and tobacco
| 13 | 133 | ...
|
| Household operation (domestic services, water, gas, electricity and household equipment)
| 13 | 193 | ...
|
| Clothing and footwear
| 6 | 36 | ...
|
| Transport
| 7 | 65 | ...
|
| Recreation
| 5 | 59 | ...
|
| Personal and medical care
| 9 | 35 | ...
|
| Services and miscellaneous
| 10 | 106 | ...
|
| Total
| 113 | 1000 | ...
|
Household consumption expenditure
Not available.
Method of data collection
Prices are collected two to three times a month by agents from
retail stores for food items, and by means of monthly questionnaires
addressed to various outlets and service establishments for other
items. Data for domestic servants' wages are obtained from the
minimum wage scales fixed by the Government.
Housing
Rent is not included as an index item, nor is it taken into account
in determining the weights.
Specification of varieties
Not available.
Substitution, quality change, etc.
Not available.
Seasonal items
Not available.
Computation
The index is computed according to the Laspeyres formula as a
weighted arithmetic average with fixed base, using weights corresponding
to March-July 1965.
Organisation and publication
Direction de la statistique et de la comptabilité nationale:
Bulletin mensuel de statistique
(Yaoundé).