As a contribution towards standardizing price data collection, this paper aims to explore the core issues related to setting up a price monitoring system, also in countries where no such system currently exists. It describes the factors a country office needs to consider when designing such a system, namely:
- The objective of the price monitoring and its sustainability
- Selection of markets
- Selection of traders
- Selection of food commodities (and/or brands)
- Units of measure
- Frequency
- Technology
- Monitoring beyond food
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| Collecting Prices for Food Security Programming: The how and why of price data collection at WFP, March 2017 |
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| Collecter les Prix dans le Cadre de Programmes de securite alimentaire: Le comment et le pourquoi de la collecte d'informations sur le prix au PAM, Mars 2017 |
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