Evaluation of the 2006–2008 Food Crisis on Household Welfare: The Case of the Sultanate of Oman

Table 2

Hicksian own and cross price elasticities.

	Cereals	Meat	Fish	Dairy	Oil and fat	Fr. and veg.	Sugar	Bev.	Others
Cereals	−0.123	0.075	−0.113	−0.038	0.000	0.327	−0.025	−0.143	−0.005
Meat	−0.185	−0.185	0.703	0.130	0.296	0.426	0.078	0.063	−0.341
Fish	−0.038	0.213	−0.424	0.076	0.059	−0.366	0.057	−0.010	0.434
Dairy	−0.084	0.333	0.057	−0.378	−0.002	−0.172	0.084	0.026	0.001
Oil	−0.170	0.290	0.193	0.241	−0.237	0.193	−0.001	−0.007	−0.502
Fr. and veg.	0.177	−0.250	−0.128	−0.681	0.010	−0.176	0.058	0.052	0.937
Sugar	−0.785	0.283	0.166	0.442	−0.065	0.249	−0.128	0.116	−0.279
Beverage	−0.025	0.080	−0.154	−0.078	−0.016	0.113	0.048	−0.502	0.725
Others	0.002	0.203	−0.263	0.127	−0.020	0.116	0.087	0.082	−0.333

Source: calculation from expenditure elasticities in Table 4 and uncompensated price elasticities from the literature.
The bold diagonal numbers are own price elasticities.