Table 1.

Summary statistics: food expenditure and budget share on food items.

	Food expenditure (N=)				Budget share (%)
Food item	Lagos	Ogun	Osun	Pooled	Lagos	Ogun	Osun	Pooled
Local Rice	2942650	3077400	2649325	8669375	11.22	13.86	8.75	11.01
Foreign Rice	2160500	1946000	2457500	6564000	8.24	8.76	8.11	8.34
Rice	5103150	5023400	5290950	15417500	19.46	22.62	17.47	19.59
Maize	585000	583800	559050	1727850	2.23	2.63	1.85	2.20
Yam	998500	695250	1392950	3086700	3.81	3.13	4.60	3.92
Yam Flour	1397500	632400	1907100	3937000	5.33	2.85	6.30	5.00
Beans	1091690	635950	1554050	3281690	4.16	2.86	5.13	4.17
Cassava (Gari)	869200	540720	1270350	2680270	3.32	2.44	4.19	3.41
Plantain	536700	457200	528600	1522500	2.05	2.06	1.75	1.93
Vegetable	2246300	2433240	1993600	6673140	8.57	10.96	6.58	8.48
Fruits	1142230	182880	2226250	3551360	4.36	0.82	7.35	4.51
Meat	2514930	1707480	3452850	7675260	9.59	7.69	11.40	9.75
Beverages	1661800	1529550	1816450	5007800	6.34	6.89	6.00	6.36
Fat & Oil	2967150	2760600	3189250	8917000	11.32	12.43	10.53	11.33
Total food expenditure	26217300	22205870	30288275	78711445

Expenditure figures in Nigeria Naira (1$ = N=365) at the time of data collection, Budget share figures in percentages.

Field survey, 2019.