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 5 Price instability-based market integration indicator (G) in Toffo-Bohicon market cluster

Foods	Primary–assembly	Primary–consumer	Assembly–consumer	All rural markets–regional market^a	Toffo-Bohiconmarket cluster^b
Egusi in shells	1.7	1.7	100.0	–	34.5
Unshelled egusi	–	–	–	–	–
Palm oil	100.0	100.0	100.0	1.1	75.3
Maize	1.5	1.0	2.7	0.6	1.5
Traditional foods^c	5.9	3.8	11.1	0.5	5.3
Vegetal oil	100.0	100.0	100.0	14.3	78.6
Imported rice	100.0	100.0	100.0	11.1	77.8
Introduced foods^c	100.0	100.0	100.0	12.5	78.1

^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
^cFigures in italics are product type-wise averages
– data not available