Meru Lowlands: Baseline Expenditure

5 Questions | By 620miles | Last updated: Jul 8, 2013 | Total Attempts: 83

Calculate how much middle households spent on food in the baseline year. Enter your results in Column A of Table 3 on the Results Tables * Round your answers to the nearest whole number (i. E. 1,000 rather than 1,000. 25) * Be sure to include the "thousands separator" (i. E. 1,000 rather than 1000). * Only enter the number value, do not include Shillings (i. E. 1,000 rather than 1,000 KSH)

Questions and Answers

1.

Maize: Middle income households bought 450kg of maize in the reference year at a unit cost of 10 Shilling / kg. Households spent ____ Shillings on maize in the reference year?
2.

Beans: Middle income households bought 50kg of beans in the reference year at a unit cost of 25 Shilling / kg. Households spent ____ Shillings on maize in the reference year?
3.

Total Food Expenditure = ____ Shillings?
4.

Non-staple items: Education Households typically have two children in primary school and spend 150 shillings per child per year for this (including fees, uniform and basic materials). They also have one child in secondary school at a cost of 1500 shillings per year. Households spent ____ Shillings on education in the reference year?
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Other non-staple items The remainder of household expenditure was spent on other non-staple items. The household did not save any money, so income equalled expenditure in the baseline year. Households spent _____ Shillings on other non-staple items?