Assessing the role of market integration in the consumption of traditional foods in Benin: a joint price instability coefficient and diet composition approach

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 3 Price instability-based market integration indicator (G) in Allada-Bohicon market cluster

Foods	Primary–assembly	Primary–consumer	Assembly–consumer	All rural markets–regional market^a	Allada-Bohicon market cluster^b
Egusi in shells	0.5	0.6	10	–	–
Unshelled egusi	3.6	5.6	10.0	0.3	2.8
Palm oil	3.1	2.9	33.3	1.0	3.2
Maize	12.5	5.9	11.1	1.2	3.6
Traditional foods^c	4.9	3.8	16.1	1.2	4.3
Vegetal oil	25.0	7.1	10.0	6.3	5.3
Imported rice	10.0	2.3	2.9	4.2	4.8
Introduced foods^c	17.5	4.7	6.5	5.3	5.3

^aThis features the rural-urban market integration appraisal, the regional market being the main consumption center
^bAverage values here are row averages over market pairs. They are rounded to the next one-digit decimal
^cValues in italics are product-wise averages