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

Table 4

Average monthly household food consumption by groups of commodities (O.R.) in the Sultanate of Oman.

Groups of commodities	1999-2000		2007-2008
	O.R.	%	O.R.	%
Cereals products	18.10	13.07	17.54	12.31
Meat and poultry	23.30	16.82	23.30	16.36
Fish	7.80	5.63	9.34	6.55
Dairy and eggs	15.00	10.83	14.80	10.39
Oil and fats	3.40	2.45	3.06	2.15
Fruits	14.70	10.61	12.12	8.51
Vegetables	14.20	10.25	13.28	9.32
Sugar products	5.10	3.68	5.07	3.56
Nonalcoholic beverages	9.20	6.64	9.48	6.65
Food from restaurants	12.40	8.95	22.02	15.46
Food from own production	9.70	7.00	5.89	4.14
Others	5.60	4.04	6.54	4.59
Total food consumption	138.50	100	142.43	100
Total consumption	456.04		494.55
Food as percentage of total consumptions		30.37		28.80

Source: main results of the Sultanate Expenditure and Income Survey for 1999-2000, Ministry of National Economy. Data for 2007-2008 are from nonpublished tables provided by the Ministry of National Economy.