zaf-reep-acp-2016-2024-v1.7
African Cigarette Prices 2016-2024
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Africa | afr |
Price Survey
The Data was collected by the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products at the University of Cape Town. The project collects prices of cigarettes sold at retail outlets and from street vendors in a number of African countries. The aim is to create a retail cigarette price dataset to enable researchers to make estimations about price differences in these countries, between brands, in urban and rural settlements, and over time.
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v1.7: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution
2024-11-23
Rounds 1-7 of the ACP were collected between 2016 and 2018. They were originally released separately in version 1 of the data.
The merged Round 1-7 data was released as version 1.2
Round 8 was undertaken between June and August 2019 and the updated data was released as version 1.3:
Round 9 was undertaken between November 2019 and Febuary 2020 and the updated data was released as version 1.4
Round 10 was undertaken in 2021 and the updated data released as version 1.5
Rounds 11-12 were undertaken in 2022 and the updated data was released as version 1.6
Rounds 13-15 were undertaken in 2022, 2023, and 2024 and the updated data was released as version 1.7
The study collected data on prices of cigarettes from retail outlets and street vendors in several African countries.
The countries included in the study are: Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Not all countries are covered in all rounds.
The data was collected at the level of retailer (often incliuding GPS coordinates of the retail outlet). However, the lowest level of geographic detail available in the public use dataset is Suburb.
The study covered cigarette prices of retailers (including street vendors) in selected African countries.
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Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products | University of Cape Town |
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African Capacity Building Foundation | Funder |
Start | End | Cycle |
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2016 | 2018 | Rounds 1 to 7 |
2019-06 | 2019-08 | Round 8 |
2019-11 | 2020-02 | Round 9 |
2021 | 2021 | Round 10 |
2022 | 2022 | Rounds 11 and 12 |
2022-11 | 2024-02 | Rounds 13, 14, and 15 |
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Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (formerly Economics of Tobacco Control Project) | University of Cape Town |
The Project received ethics approval for data collection from the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Cape Town on the 8th of October 2015.
For this project, the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products organised for University of Cape Town students from different African countries to visit retail outlets and street vendors in their countries, where cigarettes were sold, and obtained permission to take photographs of cigarette packages using their cellphones. Fieldworkers working in the same areas were put in contact to avoid duplication of effort. As such, it is reasonable to assume that duplication was largely avoided and that a store being interviewed twice in one round occured quite rarely if at all. Students were somewhat self-governing in their choice of areas to visit and stores from which to gather data. How the student groups covering an area divided up that area has not been well documented. As such, there may be geographic bias, for example against poorer areas that are more difficult to interview. This also means that a given interviewer might repeat whatever bias/mistakes they tend to make over all the rounds (if they remained on the project) making any bias hard to detect. In some cases the same store (retailer/spaza shop/street vendor) was interviewed in more than one round of data collection.
Data collected by REEP was in excel format and not serialised. Datafirst has serialised and cleaned the data to create a research-ready series. Appending the rounds required harmonising variable names. The brand names (eg Marborough) and sub-brands (eg gold) required significant cleaning due to typos and errors in data collection. Some observations with bad values were dropped from the final dataset. DataFirst has merged the data from all rounds.
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | support.data1st.org | support@data1st.org |
Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License
Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products. African Cigarette Prices 2016-2024 [dataset]. Version 1.7. Cape Town: REEP [producer], 2024. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/HB2J-K996
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DataFirst Support | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | www.support.data1st.org |
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
2024-11-25
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