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Azerbaijan restructures minimum consumer basket

01 May 2009 16:29 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov â€“ APA-Economics. Azerbaijanâ€™s Cabinet of Ministers has passed a decision to restructure the minimum consumer basket, a number of the most commonly bought food and household items.
The new structure is as below:

Foodstuffs

Food	Unit of measure	Consumption (average per capita per year)
Food	Unit of measure	Able-boded population	Pensioners	Children 0-14 year olds
Bread and bread products	kg	150	109	98
Potato	kg	46.7	36.5	40.2
Vegetables and melons	kg	95.7	85.5	101.2
Fruits and berries	kg	38	38	76
Meat and meat products	kg	30	19.2	25
Milk and milk products	kg	193.6	223.1	247.5
Fish and fish products	kg	5	5	5
Eggs	pieces	135.0	91.0	169.0
Sugar and confectionery products	kg	16.3	14.6	19.5
Vegetable oil, margarine and other fats	kg	11	7.9	8.3
Animals Fats	kg	8	5.5	6
Other products (tea, salt)	kg	3.6	2.8	3.3

Non-food products

Nonfoods	Unit of measure/ Period of use	Consumption (average per capita per year)
Nonfoods	Unit of measure/ Period of use	Able-bodied population	Pensioners	Children 0-14
Overcoat, coat-type clothing	pieces/year	3/8	3/9	3/2.6
Suit-type clothing	pieces/year	9/4.2	8/4.8	12/2
underclothes	pieces/year	9/2.5	9/2.7	12/2
Socks / stockings	pair/year	7/1.5	4.5/2	6/1.3
Headwear	pieces/year	4/5	3/6.4	4/3
Footwear	pair/year	6/3.5	5/3.5	6/1.3
School supplies	pieces/year	3/1	3/1	41/1
Bedding	pieces/year	11/7.1	11/7.1	11/7.1
Personal and household goods	pieces/year	14/10.2	14/10.2	14/10.2
Essential, sanitation and medicine goods	Percentage for monthly costs for non-food products	10	10	10

Services

Services	Unit of measure/ Period of use	Consumption (average per capita per year)
Services	Unit of measure/ Period of use	Able-bodied population		Able-bodied population
Apartment	Total area sq.m	12	12	12
Heating	Total area sq.m	12	12	12
Hot and cold water	Cubic meters a month	6	6	6
Sewage	Cubic meters a month	6	6	6
Gas	Cubic meters a month	21	21	21
Electricity	Kilowatts/s a month	50	50	50
Transport services	Rides a year	606	365	370
Communications	Monthly price	-	-	-
Internet Services	Monthly price	-	-	-
Other	Percentage for monthly costs for services	15	15	15