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Cooking gas, sold by the bottle, is imported in order to satisfy domestic demand at the subsidized price. It would not be correct to evaluate the actual consumption of cooking gas (where this is available in the data) at the true economic, or international, price. Doing this we would implicitly assume that consumers would not change their demand behaviour if faced with the (three times) higher price. Such an assumption is highly unrealistic, and might have a bearing on the overall household ranking obtained with the full consumption aggregate.
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17. This assumes that respondents give total age even if the goods were purchased second-hand. Page 16 IV. Cost of Living Adjustments: Inflation and Spatial Variation of Prices Inflation Adjustment Typically, household surveys record expenditures for different items with varying recall periods. The shortest recall period in the Ecuador survey is applied to food items (two weeks), a slightly longer one to expenditures on services or some non-food expenditures like candles, and an even longer period to only periodic purchases such as clothing.