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 6 Food consumption frequency and composite market integration index in Allada-Bohicon and Toffo-Bohicon market clusters

Foods	Food consumption frequency (days/week)^a			Market integration indicator G
Foods	Allada	Toffo	Bohicon	Allada-Bohicon cluster	Toffo-Bohicon cluster
Egusi	–	7	–	2.8	34.5
Maize	6	6	4	3.6	1.4
Palm oil	4	2	5	3.2	75.3
Traditional foods^b	5	5	5	4.3	5.3
Vegetal oil	2	2	2	6.3	78.6
Rice	1	–	2	4.2	77.8
Introduced foods^b	2	2	2	5.3	78.1
Variation between traditional and introduced foods (%)	− 60.0	− 60.0	− 60.0	+ 23.2	+ 13.7

^aValues of consumption frequency are averages of 174 households in Allada, 183 in Toffo, and 115 in Bohicon
^bFigures in italics are product type-wise averages
– data not available