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Table 12 The Uganda food price model

From: Food prices, energy and climate shocks in Uganda

Dependent Variable: differenced natural logarithm of the Food CPI

Independent variables

Coefficient

Standard error

p-value

Food price inertia

   

 ∆ LFOOD (t-1)

0.252a

0.069

0.000

 ∆ LFOOD (t-2)

0.284a

0.077

0.000

 ∆ LFOOD (t-5)

0.233a

0.072

0.002

 ∆ LFOOD (t-6)

0.301a

0.071

0.000

Nominal exchange rate

   

 ∆ LXRATE (t-1)

0.210a

0.072

0.004

International cereal prices

   

 ∆ LCEREAL (t-5)

0.088 b

0.043

0.045

Real national income

   

 ∆ LGDP (t-5)

0.640a

0.121

0.000

Agricultural output

   

 ∆ LAGRIC (t-1)

-0.168a

0.042

0.000

Domestic fuel prices

   

 LAGO (t-1)

0.071b

0.035

0.042

Temperature ANOMALY

   

 TEMPAN (t-1)

-0.003c

0.002

0.062

Monthly dummy variables

yes

  

 February

-0.020a

0.006

0.001

 March

0.018a

0.006

0.004

 May

-0.016a

0.006

0.009

 June

-0.025a

0.008

0.003

 July

-0.020a

0.006

0.002

 October

-0.014b

0.005

0.015

Error correction terms

   

 EC – Domestic food market

-0.085a

0.017

0.000

 EC – External energy market

-0.040c

0.021

0.052

 Constant

0.001

0.003

0.691

 R-Squared

0.769

  

 Adjusted R-Squared

0.655

  
  1. a,b,cindicate significance at the 1, 5 and 10 % respectively