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  • Start date and End date: Filters data series by the period dates of all data points within the series. All data series with at least one data point that has a period date inside the date range will be displayed.

  • Data Series status: Filters data series by active or inactive status. Inactive Data Series have been marked by a data manager as no longer receiving new data. This may be because a change in the way the data is being collected (such as a new source or change in units) warranted starting a new Data Series, or because the data is no longer being collected.

  • Market: Filters by the name of the actual market or the name of the town or city where the market is located. This filter aggregates items into a multi-level list (e.g., cities and markets are aggregated into countries, which are aggregated into regions). Selecting the higher-level item in the list will automatically select all the lower-level items in the list.
    Note: The International category in this filter contains countries not currently monitored by FEWS NET.

  • Product: Filters by commodity or service, classified using a modified FEWS NET version of the UN CPC v2. This filter aggregates items into a multi-level list. Selecting the higher-level item in the list will automatically select all the lower-level items in the list.

  • Price Type: Filters by the point in the marketing system where prices are reported from. The choices are assembly, export, producer, retail, spot, wage, and/or wholesale.

  • Product Source: Filters by the original source of the product (i.e., whether it is local, an export, or an import).

  • Data Source Document: Filters by the name of the document used as the primary source of information or data.

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  • Country: The name of the country where the price was observed.

  • Market: The name of the actual market or the name of the town or city where the market is located.

  • Product: Commodity or service, classified using a modified FEWS NET version of the UN CPC v2.

  • Price Type: Point in the marketing system where prices are reported from. The possibilities are assembly, export, producer, retail, spot, wage, and/or wholesale.

  • Source: The original source of the product (i.e., if it is local, an export, or an import).

  • First collection date: Period date for the first collection/reporting period in the data series.

  • Last collection date: Period date for the last collection/reporting period in the data series.

  • CountData Point count: The number of data points in the data series.

  • Info: Hover over the information icon in a row to see more details including the data series ID, data source document, and data usage policy.

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  • Reporting Schedule: Provides reporting options on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis. The default reporting schedule is monthly.

  • Common Currency: Allows the user to select a common currency for the selected data series. The values for any selected data series in a different currency are converted to the common currency. The standardized values in the common currency are displayed in the Chart tab, and are included alongside the original values in the Table tab and in data exports.

    • The default common currency is USD.

  • Common Weight Unit: Allows the user to select a common weight unit for the selected data series. The values for any selected data series in a different weight unit are converted to the common unit. The standardized values in the common weight unit are displayed in the Chart tab, and are included alongside the original values in the Table tab and in data exports.

    • The available weight units include: grams, kilograms, cuartilla, dry metric tonne, hectogram, kantar, media cuartilla, monton, ns malwa, pound, tonne, and troy oz. The default common weight unit is kilogram (kg).

  • Common Volume Unit: Allows the user to select a common volume unit for the selected data series. The values for any selected data series in a different volume unit are converted to the common unit. The standardized values in the common volume unit are displayed in the Chart tab, and are included alongside the original values in the Table tab and in data exports.

    • The available volume units include: bag, barrel, bottle, bunch, bundle, sack, cubic meter, liter, milliliter, million British thermal units, pile, and US liquid gallon. The default common volume unit is liter.

  • Common Item Unit: Allows the user to select a common item unit for the selected data series. The values for any selected data series in a different item unit are converted to the common unit. The standardized values in the common item unit are displayed in the Chart tab, and are included alongside the original values in the Table tab and in data exports.

    • The available item units include: tray, tubers, cart_load, day, hour, individual item, jerkin, large carton, loaf, medium carton, one way trip (passenger transport by bus), person, small bunch (handful), tuber, and week. The default common item unit is individual item.

  • Use Market-level Exchange Rates: On/off selection, default is off. Market-level exchange rates are available for certain countries such as Nigeria and Haiti.

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The Prices domain includes the following options:

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