Niger (Niamey, Europeans)
Official title
Indice des prix à la consommation familiale européenne (European
Consumer Price Index).
Scope
The index is compiled monthly and relates to European families in
Niamey.
Official base
15 November-15 December 1964 = 100.
Source of weights
The weights and selected items were derived from a household expenditure
survey conducted in Niamey from 15 November to 15 December 1964, by
means of mail questionnaires addressed to a sample of households of
French officials engaged in technical co-operation.
Weights and composition
| Major groups
| Number of items
| Weights
| Approximate number of price quotations
|
| Food
| 78 | 46.1 | ...
|
| Electricity, gas and water
| 3 | 11.1 | ...
|
| Cleaning materials
| 10 | 2.5 | ...
|
| Clothing, footwear and household linen
| 12 | 6.0 | ...
|
| Domestic services
| 2 | 8.2 | ...
|
| Miscellaneous
| 28 | 26.1 | ...
|
| Total
| 133 | 100.0 | ...
|
Household consumption expenditure
Not available.
Method of data collection
Prices for food and other items are collected by agents twice a
month from five retail stores and four times a month from one market.
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
Prices for seasonal items are collected throuhgout the year.
Average prices of these items are used to calculate the
index.
Computation
The index is computed according to the Laspeyres formula as a
weighted arithmetic average with fixed base, using weights
corresponding to the base period.
Organisation and publication
Ministère du développement et de la coopération, Direction de la
statistique: Bulletin de statistique
(Niamey).